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

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Artist/Maker	Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (artist) English, Michael (artist) Weymouth, Nigel (artist)
Place of origin	England (made)

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.

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Categories	Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Poster for 'MLL 40001' by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Silkscreen Paper Silkscreen Screen Print Printing
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	Psychedelic Art Posters Horses Wings Sixties Psychedelic
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1737-1991

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Record created	March 2, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O195226/poster-for-mll-40001-by-poster-english-michael/

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