Hapshash & the Coloured Coat

Hapshash AS WELL AS THE Coloured Layer was the name followed by graphic performers Michael British and Nigel Weymouth. They fulfilled in London, Britain, in 1966, collaborating in the Like Festival poster that demonstrated the joint impact of Guy Ray and US pop musician Tom Wesselman. Their function described the romanticism from the British Underground motion and included posters marketing the Soft Machine, Tomorrow, Jimi Hendrix and Arthur Dark brown, in addition to concerts held on the UFO Membership and Brian Epstein’s Saville Theater, both situated in London. Having become familiar with manufacturer/svengali Man Stevens, British and Weymouth documented their debut recording. Hapshash AS WELL AS THE Coloured Coat presented lengthy, semi-improvised items fused to very difficult, repeated riffs and chanted vocals. The accompaniment was given by Stevens’ protégés Artwork. Housed inside a de rigueur psychedelic sleeve and pressed on reddish vinyl, the recording became a lynchpin launch of the British ‘underground’ movement. Nevertheless, with Stevens right now in absentia and British preferring artwork to music, it had been largely remaining to Weymouth to record Traditional western Flyer. Groundhogs’ guitarist Tony McPhee and long term Wombles maker/songwriter Mike Batt aided on a arranged encompassing pop, intensifying and Cajun designs, all delivered inside a suitably quirky way. British and Weymouth sundered their collaboration soon afterwards.