This lunch-hour project started off simply enough–all I wanted to do was create some art for an iTunes playlist containing a private, off-the-air recording of PSB’s 2012 Radio 2 broadcast from Salford. Given the provenance of the recording, it seemed a good idea to echo the Farrow/PSB design of their officially released 2006 Radio 2 concert. (The cellos are from a photo actually taken at the Salford concert and add a diagonal element similar to the 2006 design.)
And then, by adjectivally naming the playlist in the great PSB tradition, it occurred to me to reinstate the working title of Concrete–‘Concert’— to better underscore the “bookends” relationship of the two gigs (and to obliquely indicate which BBC orchestra had been featured in 2006).
Of course after that, the idea of a non-existent (but now deeply desired) PSB box was obvious. Another search of the internet turned up a dramatic picture of Neil Tennant mid-performance at Salford, and a slipcase design was born . . .
PSB Central should seriously considerer doing something like this–release the 2012 Radio 2 concert, remaster Concrete/Concert, include a similarly designed booklet with extensive liner notes and slide everything into an equally monochromatic slipcase. The fans would definitely buy this–I know I would, even if it were a limited edition.
In the meantime, do you even have to ask if I now also have a Pet Shop Boys mega-playlist entitled Orchestral?
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