Gift of Simon Colebrooke
Photograph by David Pizzanelli
The idea for the vinyl came about after searching for something different to do for our first release on Over/Shadow. I came across a video of the Split Enz 7" and was fascinated by it, so purchased one from E Bay. My research met a lot of dead ends so it led me to contact the band who recommended I contact Jeff Ayeroff - who worked for the label that released it. After a whole load more investigation and unsuccessful attempts to contact Mike Foster (the man responsible for creating the Split Enz record), I found David Pizzanelli and we chatted about the project. He explained that the process was very difficult to achieve and if I remember correctly - protected by NDA's ?? I was so close and just about to give up when I stumbled on Richard Houghten on Instagram. He was creating the exact record we wanted so we stayed in touch and I observed him perfecting the craft. Richard created our wonderful record and the whole project was quite a big operation for us but we are super proud of what we have achieved.
I still aim to try and do this myself one day but just need to crack the code...
Simon Colebrooke