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Secret 7″ in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.
Secret 7″ is an exciting project combining music and art,
all in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.
The project set out to rekindle some of the excitement for vinyl sleeve art in the digital era by exploring how a track would be interpreted by an array of brilliant artists. And raise a load of cash for Teenage Cancer Trust in the process.
Last year The Cure, Florence & The Machine, Bombay Bicycle Club, DJ Shadow, CSS, Noah & The Whale and Ben Howard selected a track and invited designers from around the world a chance to produce their sleeve via Talenthouse. Thousands were submitted and whittled down by each artist to their favourites.
These have been joined by designs from our line-up of musicians and a crack team of creatives. To name just a few: David Shrigley, Michael Spencer Jones (Oasis, Verve), Central Station (Happy Mondays, Black Grape), Inkie, Toby Mott (De La Soul), Mr Bingo, Stylorouge (Blur, The Cure, Morrissey), Richard Evans (The Who), Pete Fowler (The Horrors) and Grammy winner Peter Corriston (The Rolling Stones, Billy Idol, Carole King, Debbie Harry, Led Zeppelin, New York Dolls and Tom Waits).
And Me! (and about 600 others too)
On the 21st April – Record Store Day – through to close on Sunday the sleeves were available to purchase. Each of the one-of-a-kind heavyweight 7” records was be available to take home with you for a minimum donation to Teenage Cancer Trust of £40. Unsold covers were put on ebay and sold for an amazing £9,605.97
Exhibition photos copyright Secret 7″
