Showing posts with label Promotional Press Pack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Promotional Press Pack. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The Sensual World - USA Promotional Press Pack #2


Another U.S. promo press pack from Columbia Records for Kate's 1989 album The Sensual World. It includes a two page timeline fact sheet on Kate's career up to that point, and it also comes with one 8x10 black and white promotional photo.


I've labelled this as press pack #2 because I've previously added a very similar press pack to this one, which you can see right HERE. Although this photo is a different one, the press sheets have exactly the same content. The only difference is that the company information is printed differently along the bottom.


It's not uncommon to see virtually the same press sheets being issued with different promo photos.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

The Sensual World - Promotional Campaign Poster Pack


This is a fairly rare UK double-sided fold out promotional poster and campaign info pack from 1989, consisting of photos and various information on one side and a poster on the other. The campaign page is a perforated info sheet that can easily be torn off from the rest of the fold out poster. It gives you a thumbnail sketch of the type of promoting materials that were used at the time, along with print ad and television appearances. It measures 13" x 9½” folded and 25½” x 18½” fully extended. The fully extended size doesn't include the attached info sheet into the measurement. As a stand-alone page it measures 13" x 9½”.

In these new scans I've tried breaking everything up into sections and showing you how it all pieces together.


These first three photos form the outer portion of the fold. The page with the lyric on it is actually the perforated campaign sheet that can be ripped off.


When unfolded in this position, the opposite side has these two pages.


Together they look like this.


When the poster is revealed, this section unfolds downwards and faces the front side upside down like this.


The poster side proved too impossible to scan as it was coming out very patchy when I tried piecing it together again. So, I took what I hope is a half decent photo of it. The campaign page is attached at the upper right-hand side of the poster.


Scan of the campaign page.


When this does turn up, which isn't very often at all, the campaign page is typically missing from it.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

The Sensual World - USA Promotional Press Pack


U.S. promo press pack by Columbia Records for Kate's 1989 album 'The Sensual World'. It includes a two page timeline fact sheet on Kate's career up to that point, and it also comes with one 8x10 black and white promotional photo. 



Promotional Press Packs for any artist originally came in a company folder of some kind. These were very cheap folders that had the record label logo splashed all over the cover (sometimes on the back of the folder as well). In most cases these folders became lost to the wind.



Monday, March 11, 2013

The Red Shoes - USA Promotional Press Pack


U.S. promo press pack by Columbia Records for Kate's 1993 album 'The Red Shoes'. It includes a two page fact sheet which, in my opinion, is a very basic one. It also comes with one 8x10 black and white promotional photo. Personally, I prefer the colour version of this photo, but black and white photos are still stunning nevertheless.



As I've mentioned elsewhere on this blog, press packs and press kits are distributed to radio stations or news media for promotion of an artist and his/her new album. These types of promotional items have become more highly sought after, and in many cases are more increasingly difficult to find because of their rarity. Press packs, like the one you see here, are usually more basic... but press kits are usually more elaborate, like this UK one for Hounds of Love, which you can see right here.



Watch out for people that sell promotional press photos by themselves; either multiples of the same photo or different individual ones. Chances are that these are nicely done homemade printer copies and not the real deal.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Aerial - U.S.A. Promotional Press Pack


USA promo press pack for Kate's Aerial Album. It includes a two page (one page/both sides) biographical press release and one 8x10 black and white promotional photo.