Exhibition of bizarre and humorous vinyl album covers from the collection of collector Steve Goldman, accompanied by a book by sleeve designer Simon Robinson.
The Art of the Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve is on display at Grosvenor Museum and Gallery in Chester, and it's built around the collection of Steve Goldman. He's been gathering odd album covers for about forty years, a habit that started when he stumbled across a particularly strange record as a teenager: Roadstar by the unremembered Peter Rabbitt. Since then, he's spent four decades hunting for the weirdest vinyl artwork in charity shops, car boot sales and online marketplaces, and this exhibition brings that search into the open.
There's a book to go with it, of the same name, written by sleeve designer Simon Robinson. It's already sold out its first edition and opens with a foreword by the comedian Stewart Lee. Robinson has taken the material to galleries, literary festivals and the Leicester Comedy Festival, and the book has been featured on Radio 5, Radio 4 and Have I Got News For You. At the talks he's run, visitors are invited to bring in strange covers from their own collection, so it's as much about the shared habit of digging through crates as it is about the covers themselves.
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If you're into the odd side of record collecting, it's a good one to catch. The exhibition runs until mid-January at Grosvenor Museum and Gallery.
