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Jamie Reid archive

Poster
1979 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This is an original promotional poster designed by Jamie Reid for Virgin Records, advertising the release of the interviews album Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols. The cover image features a prop from the film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, a collection of which were used for the cover of the album. The text reading "Look out its's the Rotten Bar Kid" refers to a 1970s Rowntree's Milky Bar chocolate advert slogan, and singer of the band, Johnny Rotten.

Jamie Reid's cut-and-paste aesthetic, as seen on this poster, developed from his interest in radical politics. His artistic style developed while at art college in Croydon, where he was influenced by the ideas of the avant-garde political group, the Situationist International. The political slant to his art was aroused by the May 1968 Paris student riots, which inspired fraternal protests organised by Reid at the Croydon College of Art. These were directed with fellow student Malcolm McLaren, who would later become the manager of the Sex Pistols.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleJamie Reid archive (named collection)
Materials and techniques
Offset lithography on paper
Brief description
Typographical promotional poster for Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK tour starting Friday December 3rd, 1976. Featuring The Damned, The Clash and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers. Black print on fluorescent pink paper. Jamie Reid archive
Physical description
Offset lithographic print on paper with black and white image of a man with missing teeth, and a chocolate bar with the name 'Rotten Bar'. Text at top and bottom of page advertising a Sex Pistols album.
Dimensions
  • Height: 68cm
  • Width: 48cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Some Product
  • Look out it's the Rotten Bar Kid / ROTTeN / bAR
  • Carri on Sex Pistols / Some Product. New album out now on Virgin. VR2. /
  • Do not pay more than £3.20 for this valid piece of product. / Virgin
Subjects depicted
Summary
This is an original promotional poster designed by Jamie Reid for Virgin Records, advertising the release of the interviews album Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols. The cover image features a prop from the film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, a collection of which were used for the cover of the album. The text reading "Look out its's the Rotten Bar Kid" refers to a 1970s Rowntree's Milky Bar chocolate advert slogan, and singer of the band, Johnny Rotten.

Jamie Reid's cut-and-paste aesthetic, as seen on this poster, developed from his interest in radical politics. His artistic style developed while at art college in Croydon, where he was influenced by the ideas of the avant-garde political group, the Situationist International. The political slant to his art was aroused by the May 1968 Paris student riots, which inspired fraternal protests organised by Reid at the Croydon College of Art. These were directed with fellow student Malcolm McLaren, who would later become the manager of the Sex Pistols.
Collection
Accession number
S.819-1990

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Record createdJanuary 21, 2010
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