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Poster for 'MLL 40001' by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat

Poster
1967 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Screen print poster promoting a record by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat entitled 'MLL 40001', released on Minit Records, featuring a mystic figure on a winged horse.


Object details

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Object type
TitlePoster for 'MLL 40001' by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Silkscreen
Brief description
Psychedelic screen print poster by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (Michael English and Nigel Waymouth) promoting their record, 'MLL 40001' on Minit, featuring a mystic figure on a winged horse. Great Britain, 1967.
Physical description
Screen print poster promoting a record by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat entitled 'MLL 40001', released on Minit Records, featuring a mystic figure on a winged horse.
Gallery label
"Michael English (born 1942) and Nigel Waymouth (born 1941) Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. Poster promoting their record 1967 Screenprint E.1737-1991 Hapshash and the Coloured Coat featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids, was put together by the artists and Guy Stevens, a record producer for Island records. The Heavy Metal Kids provided the instrumental drive and the Human Host were anyone who cared to join the act. Heavy Metal was a term first used by William Burroughs in Naked Lunch (1959). Nigel Waymouth made one more record under this name but the group finally disbanded in 1969." Text by Julia Bigham
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.1737-1991

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