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Western Star Recording Company

November 27, 2019 by Wayne Beauchamp

Western Star Recording Company website
Western Star Recording Company

Our recording studio opened it’s doors in 1999, specialising in the recording of Rockabilly-based music. In 2003 we then launched our own Western Star record label, which has grown to become the home of the finest new Rockabilly, Psychobilly and British Rock ‘n’ Roll to be found anywhere in the world.

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Filed Under: Website Examples Tagged With: music, psychobilly, record label, recording, Rockabilly, somerset, studio, Western Star, wordpress

The Bad Detectives are in Mild Peril … again!

November 18, 2019 by Wayne Beauchamp

The Bad Detectives are in Mild Peril CD - WSRC153

Back in 2016 I produced the artwork for a fine 10″ coloured vinyl rock ‘n’ roll release from West Country nutters; The Bad Detectives. With classy titles such as “There’s A Love Guru In The Village Barn” and “Shepton Prison Blues” I think you know it’s not going to be the usual affair! This 8 track EP has now been expanded with 6 more tracks to make a 14 track album and recpackaged for release on CD. Artwork now approved and on it’s way to the pressing plant.

Filed Under: Graphic Design Tagged With: album, artwork, CD, garage, music, Rock 'n' Roll, rock and roll, Rockabilly, surf, the bad detectives, trash, Western Star

The Pat Winn Combo

October 23, 2019 by Wayne Beauchamp

WSRC151 - Pat Winn Combo CD

Yet more rock ‘n’ roll goodness on it’s way. I have just had the artwork for this new album from The Pat Winn Combo signed off for the pressing plant on the Western Star label in Somerset. Interestingly though Pat is based in Norfolk and tells me he once worked at “The Duke” in Bacton when our band used to play there regularly! A bit of cartoon work on this one.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: album, cd album, guitar, holloway echoes, music, Rock 'n' Roll, rock and roll, Rockabilly, Western Star

New artwork for The Sharks Infamy CD (expanded)

October 10, 2019 by Wayne Beauchamp

WSRC152 The Sharks Infamy CD (expanded)

Just signed this beauty off ready for the pressing plant. A re-issue of the “Infamy” album by “The Sharks”. This great album has just been made even better by the addition of extra tracks and remixes. Anybody who knows anything about psychobilly knows this band were there at the birth of psychobilly (if not before) and, I think it’s fair to say, cast the die for what is considered the British psychobilly style both in terms of sound and fashion. Songs like “Take a razor to your head” on Nervous Records epitomised everything generally associated with the genre probably more so than the bass guitar, punky sound of bands like The Meteors, The Cramps and King Kurt who are often cited as the origins of the style from around the same time.

Filed Under: Graphic Design Tagged With: Alan Wilson, cd album, digipack, hodge, neo-rockabilly, psychobilly, remixes, Rockabilly, steve whitehouse, the sharks, Western Star

Remembering Joe Meek CD cover

September 17, 2019 by Wayne Beauchamp

WSRC 150 - Remembering Joe Meek CD compilation album

This will be the third Joe Meek themed compilation album I have produced artwork for on the Western Star label. Includes new recordings by a mix of original stars who recorded with the genius that was Joe Meek, along with modern bands on the rock ‘n’ roll scene today covering songs which Joe Meek added his magic to back in the day. Western Star recording studio, just outside Bath in the UK, has a long history of affiliation with Joe Meek artists and sound equipment. Another great project to be involved in if you’re a rock ‘n’ roll freak like me. The design remit was to make the packaging look like a design from the early sixties in the UK. Hopefully the shapes and colours do just that. I love the fact that in the sixties most of the print was produced using spot colours of solid ink rather than the CMYK process used nowadays so designs were limited to 2 or 3 (sometimes 4) solid colours. The inks were nowhere near as bright in those days so rock ‘n’ roll albums would try and be as vivid and wild as possible but by today’s standard definitely have a look of their time.
The dots within the name “Joe Meek” are there to represent the sound suppressing tiles found on the walls of many recording studios

Filed Under: Graphic Design Tagged With: cd album, chas hodges, joe meek, retro, Rock 'n' Roll, rock and roll, Rockabilly, sixties, vintage, Western Star

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