Heartland

The old head and star has seen a few variants over the years... stars, cogs, half cogs, etc

Also, it started as the logo for the record label, but over time become more of a band logo. (especially as there is no functioning MR record label anymore!)

Has anyone documented how the MR logo has evolved over the years? And when it stopped being a label logo and became a band logo, or even a tour logo?

It's a messy history, I suspect.

eg:
1981 - head and star v1
1982 - head and star v2
1998 - new head and cog
2013 - new head and half star
2016 - new head and half star with cog

or something like that? (I'm not saying those dates are correct btw - they're purely as an example)

Feels like something that could be added to the MR wiki page - https://sisterswiki.org/Merciful_Release

If anyone has the necessary knowledge and imagery to collate the info...?

There's some stuff here:

https://sisterswiki.org/Band_History

But it doesn't feel like it's quite what I'm after.

There was a thread somewhere with a load of t-shirts through the ages, that might help?

Or you could just go through all the records they've released. Oh, wait.

markfiend wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 13:04 There was a thread somewhere with a load of t-shirts through the ages, that might help?

Or you could just go through all the records they've released. Oh, wait.

you see my dilemma?

There were loads of pics of Sisters shirts through the years in the old HL photo gallery.

Scardwel wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 13:19 There were loads of pics of Sisters shirts through the years in the old HL photo gallery.

*sobs*

i have backups of the images, but not the gallery itself (which contained all the background info about the images)

I can't remember who made this but it was on FB a few months back.

Scardwel wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 13:34 I can't remember who made this but it was on FB a few months back.

That's the thing I was thinking of when I mentioned the t-shirt thread. Nice one.

nice! thanks @Scardwel

from those, i guess we could say MR used:

v1) the original gray's anatomy head and star - 1981 - 1982



v2) the slightly redrawn version of the original head and star - 1982 - 1994



v3) the front-facing head and star (which was sometimes used with a cog around it) - 1994 - present



which is still used on http://www.merciful-release.com/ to this day

and that all other variants belonged to the band, rather than the label?

incidentally @Being645 the wiki page here may be wrong on the new logo's start date

https://sisterswiki.org/Band_History

the first usage of the newer front-facing head and star i found was on a La Costa Rasa album released on MR in 1994:

https://sisterswiki.org/Autopilot



although this version does not have the cog, if that makes a difference to what we consider "the logo" to be? (personally i consider the head and star to be the logo, and the cog is just an element around the logo)

@Quiff Boy
Thank you for the hint, I'll see to that.
Btw, the new logo has very often been used without that one arm on the right side, too.


EDIT:
done that , but I see the last part of that page is in want of a review as well ...
https://sisterswiki.org/Band_History

markfiend wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 13:04 There was a thread somewhere with a load of t-shirts through the ages, that might help?

I stopped maintaining my "Sisters wardrobe" thread after photobucket wanted paying for their service. The first shirt I remember having a cog was the Event Horizon one from 1998, and that was literally just a cog, no variation of Head and star.

Without wishing to in any way shape or form sound like a killjoy, I must say I don't see any evolving going on since the mid 90s change. I see the same logo with different bits missing, often on t-shirts that don't turn up for sale until a few dates into the tour, suggesting he decides which bit to take out this time about 5 minutes before leaving the house. Not always of course, the National Treasure shirt is, well, a national treasure, and for sure sometimes the doktored ( ) logos look superb - Europe 2002 is a fave - but I don't see any evolution really. Still wtf do I know

I think you're probably right on all counts @Planet Dave

Am i the only one who thinks the "new" logo is p*ss-poor compared to the old one (82-94)? Because it is .

Yeah, the head from a different angle is awful, the original is still the best. I'm wondering if the next logo will be the head viewed from directly above, so just a circle,

eastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑20 Oct 2020, 04:08 Am i the only one who thinks the "new" logo is p*ss-poor compared to the old one (82-94)? Because it is .

True mate, I'm sure it was just coincidence but it happened at the same time that all the football clubs 'modernised' their crests too. They were usually awful too.

It's gradually turning into this, which feels like a fair representation of where we are