Friday, 5 June 2009

What's 'Elsewhere' all about?



It all started a long long time ago in a distant place called Stoke-on-Trent. Once upon a time there was this band called "DOWNSTAIRS PEOPLE", and one of the guitarists was me, aka Johnny Elsewhere, a name that came about during a night out in Newcastle I think..? As well as playing the guitar it was my job to produce posters, flyers, cassette case inserts etc. The band sadly no longer exist, but I kept the Elsewhere name.
The images shown are the front and back cover of a 12" single that we put out in the early 90's. It was one of my early attempts at graphic design. The 'rage' name was hand drawn and all the type was done using an old IBM computer, pre-Windows. I seem to remember that the printers sorted out the colour scheme, that's how primitive it was.