Biography
The Edgar Broughton Band, founded in 1968 in Warwick, England, was an English psychedelic rock group.The band started their career as a blues group under the name of The Edgar Broughton Blues Band, playing to a small following in the region around their hometown of Warwick. However, when the band began to lean towards the emerging psychedelic movement, dropping the ‘Blues’ from their name as well as their music, Victor Unitt left.
The band’s touring attracted some controversy from their series of free concerts at locations such as children’s playgrounds, and from a number of cases of civil disorder occurring at their shows. The most notorious incidents were a show in Redcar at which a fight broke out between audience members and led to violent police intervention, and a show in Keele where the audience vandalized the venue using paint given to them by the band. Though the band denied doing anything to incite any of these incidents (in the case of Keele, Edgar Broughton admitted to giving paint to the audience but argued that “we didn’t tell them to do anything with it”), several towns banned the group’s concerts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Broughton_Band
Album & Cover
Inside Out is the fourth album by psychedelic rock group, Edgar Broughton Band. https://www.allmusic.com/album/inside-out-mw0000467853
The title inspired the cover for this album. It is housed in a multi-fold cover, designed in a similar fashion to a ‘Chinese wallet’ – it presents you with two gatefolds instead of one! The outer cover portrays a stark black and white, ‘grim up north’ scene of a world-weary, ex-con resting a reassuring hand on the shoulder of a flat-capped androgynous child. The pair are observed from a footpath by working class figures set against a brutal retaining wall. The sky is replaced by dark foreboding, horizontal, airbrushed bands, that give the scene a surreal, claustrophobic edge. The image is enhanced by the Chinese wallet design, for opened one way, the figures stand at the corner of the uncompromising wall. Opened the other way, the figures appear at the front of a long, daunting corridor. The inside again has two aspects – in one, the band are depicted in sepia tinted pictures on ‘home turf’ against a wet city-scape of flyovers and everydayness. Folded the other way, our ‘hairy heroes’ are pictured in pastoral settings, a sharp contrast to their previous setting. It is these contrasts that are the key to ‘In Side Out’.
Location: Victorian Prison, Wormwood Scrubs, West London, UK
Who Did What: Photography – A. Powell. Package Design – H. Robinson
Label: Harvest SHTC 252(UK).
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue: Aubrey Powell
Tracklist
| Side One A) Get Out Of Bed B) There’s Nobody There C) Side By Side Sister Angela I Got Mad They Took It Away Homes Fit To Heroes Gone Blue Chilly Morning Mamma |
Side Two The Rake Totin’ This Guitar Double Agent It’s Not You Rock ‘N’ Roll |
Credits
Bass, Vocals – Arthur Grant
Drums, Vocals – Steve Broughton
Engineer – Alan O’Duffy
Guitar, Vocals – Edgar Broughton, Victor Unitt
Producer – The Edgar Broughton Band
