ELECTRIC FANS Garden of Uluru EP RARE + Poster M Squared Phantom Records CUSTOM
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Electric Fans ?– Garden Of Uluru
Label: EMI Custom Records ?– 13062 Format: Vinyl, 7", EPCountry: Australia Released: 1980 Genre: Rock Style: New Wave, Post-Punk
Tracklist
A1 Garden Of UluruA2 Say Anything
B1 Run Ray, Run
B2 Dying Star
This is one of the rare copies which was supplied in the wrap around screen-printed poster when the band ran out of picture sleeves (the poster was used 40 years later to promote the Sedition festival in Sydney - see details here https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/electric-image). The disc is in a generic white sleeve with the poster folded around it. Note that the band sellotaped the poster around the generic single sleeve with these copies, so the tape is still on this copy, but it's original tape!
Electric Fans band members were Brooke Daniels (bass), Kaye Greenleaf (guitar), Rick Hawkins (guitar), Vivien Johnson (drums), Roberta Johnston (guitar) and Moira McLain-Cross (vocals). Sheona White is now Director, Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest
"The International Women’s Day march in Hyde Park on 10 March 1980 saw Sydney feminist band the Electric Fans pull their biggest crowd ever.
The politically motivated band had come together in mid-1978, combining members of the all-female punk group Alias and other friends. They played their first gig at The Settlement in Redfern, before landing a residency at the Native Rose Hotel in Chippendale (now the Rose Hotel), and often appeared at protest rallies and political fundraisers.One of the main ways the band reached its audience was with posters like the one shown here, which promoted the band’s independently funded, first (and only) EP. According to sociologist, writer and Electric Fans drummer Professor Vivien Johnson, the band would never have had enough money for a recording session if one of their biggest fans hadn’t paid the $140 fee. After that, they put aside money from gigs for mixing sessions and to get the records cut at the EMI studio. Later, when they ran out of official photo covers for the record, they cut up the left-over posters to make extra covers.
This poster was created by Sheona White, then a member of the Lucifoil Poster Collective based at the Sydney University Art Workshop. Known as the Tin Sheds, the workshop was established in the late 1960s, and housed the Earthworks Poster Collective from 1972 to 1979. By 1980 the largely female group of printers working there had evolved into the Lucifoil Poster Collective, named by combining the name of the resident cat, Luci, with a reference to the metal-clad building they worked in."
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