I’d love to tell you that Martincourt are an exciting new London band that channel St Etienne, The Sundays and Portishead into a new kind of Hoxton cafe cool.
Unfortunately, they don’t exist. The album cover below is my handiwork. I made it after playing the ‘Make Your Own Album Cover’ mentioned in The Guardian the other day.
Here’s how you play:
Get a band name.
Simply use the title of a randomly-generated Wikipedia article.
Then your album title.
Use the last four or five words from the last quote on a page of random quotations.
Now some album art.
Use the image thrown up using this Flickr tool, which generates random images without copyright restrictions.
Then put it all together with Photoshop, Paint, or whatever graphics software you have and assemble your band logo and album title into the finished item.
I got ‘Forget Why You Are There’ by Martincourt on my first attempt.
Martincourt is a town in France. The title comes from a quote about entering a room and forgetting why you are there. And the random image is just perfect. It was from a collection of images a guy found in an old photo album he’d bought in a jumble sale.
Check out the comments section of the original article in The Guardian to see what others have come up with.
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Hi Peter,
I read your post and tried my luck straight away…
Ehm, my group, I decided, should be a crossing between Stereophonics and Franz Ferdinand, after all, Domino records is the label of the latter
Check it out at: http://diodohistrionico.blogspot.com/
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Cheers!,
Ana
My album title was “More Fatal than Useful to Mankind.”
hmmmmm…
Hi
My attempt came out as ” Tivoli Union” for the group which is the student union office and bar at the University of Denver and ” When you’re through changing you’re through” for the album title on a moody picture of a jetty over a misty covered lake that looked like a mass produced print from the Ikea picture dept! I thought it look quite good though…