Anyway, over christmas, I promised my band, gretanova, I'd come up with something for our demo artwork-wise. Since I've done nothing so far but put on weight I thought now'd be a good time to start. I've got a logo sorted
and even already have a sketchy, photomontage cover done, but to be honest it doesn't sit quite right with me. 
The comic-book thing doesn't really go with our style of music and (while I'm sure the artists in question couldn't actualy give a toss) a lot of the images are ripped from other people's work and found images. Something new and more appropriates in order.step one: who are you designing for?
We play dirty, desert rock in the style of bands like PJ Harvey, Queens of the stone age and Calexico. Its quite a grungy and American sound which is quite odd for a band from deepest, darkest Yorkshire (although anything that doesn't sound like the Arctic Monkeys is a rarity round our way). It almost borders on country in places ('but in a good way' as I'm almost legally obliged to add).
How do you take Arizona and transplant it into Sheffield?
The vague idea I've got forming in my head is to play on the whole 'Western' vibe and try to find the Yorkshire equivalent. If Johnny Cash and Hank Williams came from Skipton what would be different about their songs? If Kyuss practised in a church hall in Armley would they still be so bloody heavy? After all, 'my woman done me wrong and ran off with my brother and I've been sitting at this bar for 3 days now and I can't feel my feet' is a pretty universal theme, its just instead of a horse with no name its a Vauxhall viva with one headlight.
TBC
