The sequence of Barney appears from 2m01s to 2m05s (the guy in the sheepskin waistcoat who walks across the room and sits down at some artwork). Either side of that there’s some interesting footage in general.

There’s some more info about the context of this find on David Wills’ blog: http://davidwills.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/world-scoop-see-barney-move-make-your-own-barney-flip-book/

See here for more details: http://www.barneybubbles.com/blog/archives/1332

A post which may be of interest – record label Trensmat’s remake/remodelling of Barney Bubbles Hawkwind artwork for the sleeves/labels for it’s series of split 7″ cover versions of the band’s songs by contemporary groups.
Also posted the letterhead for Hawk Graphics.

See here: http://www.barneybubbles.com/blog/archives/1013

Best

PJG

I checked on the website printed on the 1975 LP cover. Which I would have otherwise ignored.

http://www.barneybubbles.com/blog/archives/876

The event will run from 3.00pm – 11.00 pm and will feature performers and performance all day, including Robert Calvert’s play ‘The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice’ (for which Barney designed the stage set), performed by the Pentameters Theatre Group. It is also hoped to have an exhibition of Barney’s work and copies of the book for sale.

More information is avialable at http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/the-space-ritual-2009-2925

Tickets are available from http://www.roundhouse.org.uk or 0844 482 8008

Make no mistake, your book is fantastic. Rest assured, it was absolutely worth doing and warm thanks for putting it together. It filled in far more gaps in my knowledge than my one or two observations, and I can see that you have done a lot of work pulling together as much info as possible. I’m only adding my tuppence worth in the interests of (hopefully) accuracy and adding a few scraps to our knowledge of Barney. You got lots & lots right – a great, pioneering effort – well done!

No excuses, but maybe someday the story can be told (that’s if anybody is even interested). I will not go into this in a public forum – suffice to say that lawyers are working on it.

But your points do go to a major element in putting this book together and one which proved a major hurdle for anybody else sticking their heads above the parapet and doing it previously.

Apart from the fact that very little had been documented, BB’s working practices were so layered, and his references/quotes/sources/cryptography winging in from every which way that its is only now – that I have set out 600 images spanning his entire career – there is at least some clarity in attribution/meaning/etc.

As I say – no excuses and I am certainly not depicting your’s and other’s comments as pedantry. I got things wrong; over to you as to whether anybody else could have done a better job or whether it was worth doing in the first place.

Another observation from your fantastic book: relating to the mysterious ‘3′ logo on Get Happy. Although ‘none of those involved in its release know what it symbolises’ (p145), it actually says 3D, not just 3, if you look at the bit at the bottom of the logo too. This seems to connect with the spot colour scheme of opposites and ‘out of line’ printing, especially on the inner sleeve – it resembles something to view through (red and green) 3D glasses. This also fits the LP title, ‘worn old favourite’ sleeve and 50s retro image, an instruction to Get Happy imposing a forced happiness of gimmicky cheap 50s escapism, in retro contrast to an 80s recession. (The off centre circles may also echo the dart of Gerry Anderson’s Century 21 logo used in the titles of Captain Scarlet.)

Also a correction (p90) – Ian Dury died on 27 March 2000, not 2001.

Best wishes

No I’m not Yolanda’s Paul but Happy Xmas to you and all Bubblers. And enormous thanks for doing the book, it made my heart jump for joy to see it. It sits proudly with the Factory book, other album cover books and many records featured in ‘em.

As has been noted on EyE blog

What a fantastic spot – and so obvious to be staring me in the face and making me feel a bit of a fool. Ah well, as BB said: Better Mugs Than Being Smug.
I shall certainly correct (and attribute) in the new edition.
Are you Yolanda’s Paul (as in Catfunt)? If so (and even if not) Happy Holidays!

I hope you did get a free copy you deserve it!

I still think his work and his involvement in so many different scenes and movements would make brilliant documentary. He is fairly unique in that he remained so grass roots level with the music and design and crucially from 60’s hippies to punk. If you consider his contemporaries stayed within their scenes looking dated or moved out and started making big bucks advocated a very right wing ethos….Felix Oz et al

Not read the book yet but it might be interesting to find out about why he took his own life, not in a voyeristic way, but from the little I know he seemed at odds with so much of the true ideology of his hippy contemporaries.

Anyway I await his posthumous Knighthood in the new years honours list

cheers

Also: Paul Gorman has sent me some fabulous Stiff-era material for a new post. Stay tuned…

I wonder if the dog in the ‘Woodentops’ was an articulated dalmation (for our younger viewers)