Unoffical Radiohead Album Covers

I’ve been slowly working through my iTunes music library adding album art to my MP3s this week. (Aside: damn them and their rather-too-soon-for-my-liking Colour Screen iPods). While Amazon generally provides good quality album art at an optimal size of 300x300 px I’ve hit situations where album art simply does not exist. Tonight was Radiohead night, revealing problems with live shows and bootleg albums which (unsurprisingly) Amazon do not stock.

My solution was to make my own. Just two for now, ‘cause I’m tired and want to go to bed, but here is 300×300 px ‘album’ artwork for Radiohead – Live on Later with Jools Holland (BBC, 2000) which still exists on my PC in MP3, having been through the formats of VHS video tape, Mini Disc before this point. Also (and the one which I’m rather more proud of as it required some actual original work) is Radiohead’s ‘Big Top’ show from Victoria Park (Kid A release show, I think, also in 2000).

The “...Later” artwork comes from the BBC logo for (television program) Later with Jools Holland and an image which I believe was used in the broadcast of the Radiohead show itself, showing Ed O’Brian on stage.

For the Victoria Park show, I’ve taken a scan of an official ticket from the event (not mine, sadly), extended it to be square and moved the upper and lower text of the ticket the top and bottom respectively. Then I’ve taken a from-afar image of the Victoria Park tent and drawn around its silhouette and finally applied the Radiohead bear as a repeating background to the tent, as was the style of some of the Kid A era promotion posters. I’ve also coloured one of the bears red, ‘cause it looked cool.

I hope other people with copies of these recordings find a nice use for the artwork. Anyone without will have to hunt for themselves I’m afraid as I really don’t have the time to send out copies on request. The Victoria Park show (generally available as one very large MP3) would be my greater recommendation over the Later… gig.