Lipstick on my collar: "The concept behind Covers is to encourage ordinary people to re-create their favourite album sleeve using whatever materials are to hand. It came out of a conversation Daville had with a friend, recalling their schoolboy attempts to look like Marc Bolan and David Bowie. 'We were talking about the mania you have at that age, how enjoyable it is. You have time to do it - you're either thinking about girls or the homework you haven't done or these magical figures. At that age, you know nothing about the music business, you're just getting pure magic, an unsullied experience.'
The show is simultaneously hilarious and oddly touching, not least because you suspect in an age of MP3s and digital downloads, Daville's photographs may be documenting a dying art form. Most of the images people have chosen come from the 1960s, 70s and 80s; the past 15 years simply have not produced that many iconic album covers."
See also "New Slang" video by the Shins (for which I can not find a working link).
