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old furs photo
Posted: 31 Aug 2014, 16:35
by paint it black
bought this last week. was rummaging around the sleeve and noticed something sisters related
Re: old furs photo
Posted: 01 Sep 2014, 18:29
by Nikolas Vitus Lagartija
paint it black wrote:bought this last week. was rummaging around the sleeve and noticed something sisters related
Very old Furs photo ! That must be one of the original batches of TSOM shirts as they had gone from a six to a four piece by early 1982 ...
Posted: 02 Sep 2014, 05:49
by Rise891
John Ashton produced Body Electric, maybe they paid him in t-shirts.
Posted: 02 Sep 2014, 21:36
by Nikolas Vitus Lagartija
Is this the oldest known photo of a Head and Star t-shirt ? I guess this photo must be from 1981 ?
Incidentally, the two guys who left the Furs after this photo both played on Ashton's Satellite Paradiso pledge project earlier this year.
Posted: 02 Sep 2014, 23:35
by spiggymr7
Including the PRIESTLEY'S T SHIRTS catalogue with his april 1981 supplement.
1981 is noticed on the cover and we could see the Sisters Tee Shirt pic listed reference number 113.
Posted: 02 Sep 2014, 23:46
by Nikolas Vitus Lagartija
bravo, Monsieur Spiggy, you've done it again ! Thanks once again for sharing one of your early treasures.
Given the date of the supplement and the number of new shirts available, the original catalogue must have printed months earlier, so does this mean the t-shirts were available even before the first gig
Posted: 02 Sep 2014, 23:50
by paint it black
if memory serves there were 25 1st run tee shirts before DD (to help fund it) and similar 25 BE tee shirts... can't be arsed looking through my papers to confirm
Posted: 03 Sep 2014, 18:38
by spiggymr7
spiggymr7 wrote:Including the PRIESTLEY'S T SHIRTS catalogue with his april 1981 supplement.
1981 is noticed on the cover and we could see the Sisters Tee Shirt pic listed reference number 113.
Posted: 03 Sep 2014, 20:18
by Being645
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... cool!!!! ... where the hell did you find that old stuff, spiggymr7 ...
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It looks like they arranged for t-shirts being printed on time for the Damage Done release, i.e. November 1980 ...
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Posted: 03 Sep 2014, 23:49
by Nikolas Vitus Lagartija
So in the light of the 81 photo of John Ashton in the TSOM t-shirt, at which Furs gig in Leeds did the fabled meeting between AE and JA take place at which the former gave the latter a demo tape, leading to him eventually producing the Alice EP.
The Furs played at Tiffany's in the Merrion Centre in May 81, but before that had played twice in 1980 (at Futurama in September and at the Fan Club in Feb) with their first Leeds appearance also at the Fan Club in late 79, as this flyer from the ever impressive Post Punk Flyer site will testify.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/33135085@ ... 1455086944
Posted: 04 Sep 2014, 08:48
by paint it black
Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:So in the light of the 81 photo of John Ashton in the TSOM t-shirt, at which Furs gig in Leeds did the fabled meeting between AE and JA take place at which the former gave the latter a demo tape, leading to him eventually producing the Alice EP.
The Furs played at Tiffany's in the Merrion Centre in May 81, but before that had played twice in 1980 (at Futurama in September and at the Fan Club in Feb) with their first Leeds appearance also at the Fan Club in late 79, as this flyer from the ever impressive Post Punk Flyer site will testify.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/33135085@ ... 1455086944
no speculation required here, it's all documented; by both sides .. just need to find it again
Posted: 07 Sep 2014, 00:22
by eastmidswhizzkid
lovely history lessons from all regardless.