The Velvet Forum

Is it actually a poster from the time? I always thought this was a cut and paste job from the 80's; happy to be proved wrong!

Has this photo collection been mentioned before? It's new to me:

https://en.wombat.fr/collections/frontp ... 8840708420

I really doubt it's Lou's copy - if it was from his estate sale, where are all the other goodies? (I'd like his copy of "I heard her call my name" single; or indeed, anybody's copy )

It links from Olivier's site, so I'm pretty sure this is it!

The 'dangerousminds' link above says that the original tapes had been sold to an Italian collector by the sound engineer - this is the first I'd heard of this - is it true? Pretty curious to know.

I've never really understood why the stock singles are so much rarer than the promos; if as a record company you are going to the trouble of making some stock singles, why not actually press up a proper amount? What is the point of seemingly only releasing a few...? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Velvet-Un...

This and the previous boxes for the earlier albums are fantastic but I'm now somehow feeling a little wistful - I'm guessing the "cupboard is now bare", I doubt there are any gems left in the vaults. Up until these boxes we always had the hope of things to come, but now it feels like we've probably ...

Thanks for the nice words!