Teenage Naiclub

As a rule I don't trade, I don't like doing it. I am a compulsive hoarder I know, but I really am quite fond of things that way. However, I settled on a trade with good guy Richard Heaven a couple of weeks back on a double I had, and now he has received his end of the trade, I can finally talk about this! 

Art is Hard Records presents The Pizza Club. There are four different membership levels to The Pizza Club, but only one of them promises a physical product, and costs £125, which is a bit balls in my humble opinion. I mean, look it up if you like, but the idea is that every other week, a different Pizza Club CD goes up for sale, along with a download for the other packages. The physicals are all limited to 5(?) per release, and with one going to THE ONE (£125 membership) that means only 3 or 4 see the light of day. Really cool if you have one, real shitty if you don't. Which is exactly how I felt when I found out who was responsible PZZ06... 

Yup. Nai Harvest. Didn't have a clue about this release, and it was long gone before I even knew what it was. Plus, the song (yup - one song release) is 'Ain't That Enough', which is a Teenage Fanclub cover. Plus, it's on 'Songs From Northern Britain' which is a pretty remarkable album, and Nai Harvest really do this song justice. I think Dragon Soop may be an energy drink, according to the internet. Maybe some in-joke I'm not in on? This sticker is inside the box, look below for a better idea. 

To be fair, it is a really sweet package! An actual pizza box. This was shipped in a 12'' mailer to me, packed super well (with a really smart old End of a Year sticker, Cleavers 7'' and Pornography For Cowards issue - Cheers duder!), but I have no clue how these arrived to people straight from the label? Simple design, but there's something about it that just works; and it just shows how much effort indie labels are still putting in; especially when the idea is a little kooky to begin with...

 I do like that not all of the Pizza boxes are in the Pizza Club packages, and can be bought separate. I'm sure it pissed a few people off that they didn't make more of these, but in typical hoarder sense, I don't spend too much time thinking about that now I have one. On the upside, the label have been sweeties and you can get the song for a free download? 

Finally, a quick look at the CD itself. The art was drawn by Lew Currie, who plays drums in Nai Harvest. It seems a little different to his normal kind of work, but it's great all the same. Did I say a while back I was going to do an entry on his zine? I should do that, I might do an out and out zine entry? Got a few cool ones. The boxes are not numbered. I think that Darren Harvey at Dog Knights Productions has one of these? Aside from that, I'm not sure where the others got to...

There we go. Something that's highly impractical to fit anywhere, something that seems a little over the top for one song and definitely something that's annoyed a few fan boys. But I love it. Art is Hard also did a Postcard Club that was really quite brilliant, you should check that out.