Comments on: Neville Brody and Fetish Records

By: Silver Firefly

Silver Firefly — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:25:08 +0000

Hi,

Nice article.

I found this article where there’s some information about what influenced Neville Brody at http://alexandraavila88.blogspot.com/2008/11/411-on-neville-brody.html.

Hopefully it will be useful to someone.

By: John

John — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:14:25 +0000

Hi Rainer. That was the first Fetish Records release and, as far as I’m aware, pre-dates Neville Brody’s involvement with the label which is the subject of this post. The “Pluribus” credit would seem to confirm that since Brody always used his own name as a credit.

By: Rainer Gross

Rainer Gross — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:31:03 +0000

Hi,
I have record by my old group L.O.K from the 70s. I played drums and wrote the music to FUN HOUSE and STARLET LOVE. The lyrics were by A.A. Pritchard
with grapfics by pluribus with looks like your design, which I always loved?
Any comments?
Rainer

By: Tim Niblock

Tim Niblock — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:10:05 +0000

We used to call him Brodchenko!!!

By: Anee

Anee — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:09:11 +0000

Brodybunch

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:59:16 +0000

No problem with that James, I wish I could tell you something but there doesn’t seem much to tell. Formed in London 1979-ish by Rod Pearce, expired in 1982. I’ve added Jon Savage’s sleeve note from The Last Testament to the post since that fleshes out some of the history.

He notes there the curious moment which followed punk when all the rules had collapsed and anything seemed possible. Many interesting bands, labels, things flourished at that point before the Eighties as we think of them now (poppy, glitzy, very commercial and money-oriented) kicked in around the end of 1982. Simon Reynolds’ Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 is a good history of the era.

By: James

James — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:06:11 +0000

Cheers, yeah Jonathan Barnbrook is a designer that I thought was similar to Brody
Sorry to ask another question but do you have any information on Fetish Records as a company, can’t seem to find that much about them.
Cheers and thank you for taking the time to reply.
James

By: John

John — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:29:36 +0000

Hi James. The rather po-faced Wozencroft book doesn't say much at all about Brody's influences--make of that what you will. Mention is made of Barney Bubbles and Brody's having been impressed by Malcolm Garrett's sleeve design for Orgasm Addict by The Buzzcocks; he likes the Futura typeface a lot. You won't find much that resembles these sleeves since few people seemed to notice them at the time. His later work for The Face magazine was hugely influential and poorly-imitated. For a designer with a similar attitude today, I'd recommend you look at the work of Jonathan Barnbrook.

By: James

James — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:41:56 +0000

Great stuff, interesting read, do you know who he was influenced by/ where his ideas came from or any artists that his work is similar to vice versa
cheers
james

By: John

John — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:19:36 +0000

Hi Dean,

There’s more information about Brody’s Fetish work in The Graphic Language of Neville Brody by NB & Jon Wozencroft (Thames & Hudson, 1988). Some of the scans on this page were taken from that book which is worth reading throughout, not only for the detail about his sleeve designs. I’d imagine you’d be able to find a copy in a library easily enough.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Graphic-Language-Neville-Brody-v/dp/0500274967/

And for a comprehensive look at a different type of sleeve design, there’s my big post on the work of Barney Bubbles:

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/20/barney-bubbles-artist-and-designer/

By: dean gallagher

dean gallagher — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:33:08 +0000

INTERESTING!!!
i am 4th year student studying for my BA in Graphic Design and in the process of writing an essay on album design! if you have any more info on fetish records or neville brody record sleeves i would really appreciate it