{"id":3674,"date":"2008-11-10T02:04:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T02:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/10\/last-in-line-by-light-syndicate\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T02:04:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T02:04:40","slug":"last-in-line-by-light-syndicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/10\/last-in-line-by-light-syndicate\/","title":{"rendered":"Last in Line by Light Syndicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/light_last.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ls1.jpg\" alt=\"ls1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Last in Line<\/em> is the debut album by Manchester band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightsyndicate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Light Syndicate<\/a> and the CD packaging is something I put together after being asked to rescue a design which wasn&#8217;t quite working. I kept the band&#8217;s original idea of black trees on a red background but substituted their drawing with an adaptation of a 1910 folk tale illustration by Reginald Lionel Knowles. Knowles&#8217; name is an obscure one today, his most visible work being the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everymanslibrarycollecting.com\/images\/jbk\/curtis_wholeendpapers.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">florid endpaper design<\/a> which the Everyman Library used on their books up to 1935.<\/p>\n<p><em>Last in Line<\/em> is available locally from today (I guess that means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piccadillyrecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Piccadilly Records<\/a>) and nationwide from January 12th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/light_last.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ls2.jpg\" alt=\"ls2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/light_last.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ls3.jpg\" alt=\"ls3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/light_last.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ls4.jpg\" alt=\"ls4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last in Line is the debut album by Manchester band Light Syndicate and the CD packaging is something I put together after being asked to rescue a design which wasn&#8217;t quite working. I kept the band&#8217;s original idea of black trees on a red background but substituted their drawing with an adaptation of a 1910 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/10\/last-in-line-by-light-syndicate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last in Line by Light Syndicate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,48,3,23],"tags":[517],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-illustrators","category-music","category-work","tag-manchester"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Xg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}