LCMR-030 THE COLOURS - BLUE SHIRT 7”

RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER

Forty years after the Ipswich band first formed as the Psychedelic Pigeons, two of their 1983 recordings have finally been released!

Blue Shirt first appeared on an 1984 cassette compilation entitled Queensland in Quarantine, having received what some might deem as excessive airplay on local independent radio station, 4ZZZ. It's been rumoured that the song was once played five times on the Demo Show. In the years since, it's still one of the few Queensland pop classics which the station will dust off and play, despite never having released any recordings themselves during their almost year-long existence.

Bruce 'Cub' Callaway - an old Brisbane boy who appeared in one of Brisbane's earliest punk bands, the X Men was assigned to master the song from the original source tapes and its flipside, It's the Famous Five. We here at LCMR have greatly appreciated his audio wizardry on albums such as Ed Kuepper's debut album, Electrical Storm and the great woolshed recording by the Triffids, In the Pines. Yes, we're a little geeky like that.

Artist Terry Murphy's hand-drawn cover and design work wraps up this long-anticipated and most requested issue/reissue the label's ever received. Murphy's highly prolific and original designs go right back to 4ZZZ's very beginnings in 1975 from pre-punk and onto the new decade of post-punk, creating works for various pivotal venues around Brisbane who happily allowed independent bands to play and the promoters who booked them.

A once-only pressing of 150 copies have been made with two inserts tucked inside the screen-printed sleeve courtesy of no.7 Print House.