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Ten BACK OF THE VAN Covers the public never saw

Once upon a time... a few months ago, we made a top secret special batch of covers for Ladyhawke's Back Of The Van. Or more correctly, I went nuts painting ten individual special one-off original never-to-be-repeated [checks thesaurus...] unique exclusive 7" single covers for Back Of The Van.



The Triceratops might be my favourite...



If a T-Rex' wasnt scary enough, on halloween it might dress as a ghost to freak you out.



...but i like these two guys (above and below) a lot too!





These were painted straight onto special pre-made 7" covers.

I only messed up about 4 attempts, so now I have most of a box of blank 7" covers. I use them for grocery lists. or i put my fingers inside one, and my thumb into another, and pretend my hand is a duck-billed Hadrosaur.

A huge little bit of my history... Ladyhawke, 2009 singles

I got given a second shot at a couple of singles, and in the space that passed since the original releases, Pip and I both got a little darker, and I got braver and less 'particular'... these are examples of what we came up with.

This howling dude became a stage backdrop thing.




...and this guy is the original wolf painting, I drew him on new years day 2009, on an island in New Zealand, while deflecting my monkey nieces with quick drawings of elephants that they could colour in. It was a rad family colouring-in session.

And then came the Back Of The Van dinosaur series for a re-release... 'um, nice...but what have dinosaurs got to do with Ladyhawke?' they said. 'EVERYTHING!' we repiled.

LADYHAWKE the album!

I thought it would be a great idea to create the album booklet as one continuous image, one where the end matches up with the beginning, so you could effectively put it on a loop and watch it forever! As it turned out, I was the only one who was enthusiastic about this idea, so the booklet exists as pages, and I am left with an un-frame-able painting over two metres long,

A huge little bit of my history... Ladyhawke ; My Delirium video

Once I had what i thought was a greaaat idea for a ladyhawke video, so I wrote a treatment and gave it to her 'people'. they didnt go for it... i was bummed out, but that didnt stop me from dreaming that one day I would help make a video for her. And then one day... I did! I went to London and worked with Frater; a couple of rad directors by the names of Benji and Jim, at the Partizan Studio. These are a few of my contributions to the project!

A huge little bit of my history... 2007-2008; The first Ladyhawke pieces