Let’s redo classic album covers using Microsoft Paint
Anthony Richardson, a Withington-based comedian, got in touch last week. He wanted to tell us about Paint My Album, a project he and friend Diarmuid White set up in July 2008. They’re trying to get people to submit 2,000 classic album covers redrawn in Microsoft Paint by 23 December this year.
My favourites are covers that are so amateurish they could have been drawn by a five year old. I was never very good at art at school, and this group isn’t about perfection. Some of the covers are brilliant, amazing in fact, but that’s only half of what this challenge is about. One of the members, Mark Brown from Leicester, did a cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind so bad it made people cry. I loved it…
The pair also do some very funny Paint My Album videos. The latest episode features their Gay Crab-handed Neighbour, local writer Chris Killen and redone covers of Elvis Costello and Oasis album covers.
They’ve had around 700 submitted so far, but with roughly 30 being added each week there’s a chance they might fall just short of the target. They’re therefore asking music-lovers to contribute to the project – so join their Facebook group and start Painting!
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