The artwork for the Lion CD has finally arrived and looks great. Happy happy joy joy.

If we'd agreed to the first design suggested by a different record company, we could have had the album released several months ago. But the look of the thing is too important, and makes a very big difference to how the listener perceives the music.

If you don't believe me, here's a wonderful example. This is the Art of Noise's Close (To the Edit) with a clever, amusing animated video. You listen and think 'what a witty, playful piece of music' (well I did anyway). And this is it with the original video I remember watching with a group of musicians in 1984 after an evening rehearsal, in Vanbrugh Bar at the University of York when I was a music student. Now the music has quite a different agenda.  

Incidentally, the new BBC Scotland building looks like this on the inside:

It's quite a long way down from the top: