Linder Sterling took the shots of Morrissey in El Paso which we used for the Southpaw Grammar reissue.

The reissue of Southpaw Grammar can be had from Amazon.

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Years of Refusal, Morrissey’s ninth studio album has been released on Attack / Lost Highway (USA) and Polydor (rest of the world).
Mexican folk art and vintage California drove the art direction of Years of Refusal. Working around a photograph taken by Jake Walters of M holding a plump, drooling baby, we echoed the subtle Mexican [...]

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The first single from Years of Refusal is “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris’. Shot by Jake Walters in Los Angeles.
The inner bags feature candid pics of the band shot by Travis Shinn and paintings of Paris by Jules Herve and Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre.

‘I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris’ is available from Amazon and [...]

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One of my favourite bands Thursday ran a T-shirt design comp towards the end of 2007. I submitted a couple of designs and while this one didn’t make the cut (the one that made it to the shortlist was this) I received an e-mail from their management asking if they could use it.
“Fuck yes”, was [...]

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This design made the shortlist for a merch contest that Thursday held last year.
It ended up coming in fourth but a few weeks after the competition ended Thursday’s management contacted me and asked to use this design in an upcoming range. As per the Heart design it’s not seen the back of a sweaty meathead [...]

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