The Darling Buds - White T-Shirt

Original olden times promo shirt for The Darling Buds 1988 Native Records single ‘Its All Up To You’. The idea for The Buds single covers was to find different pop cultural representations of flowers — not rocket science but pre-scanner BC we pillaged what we could when we could. The first, Shame On You, was a cheeky steal from a garden centre seed packet, It’s All Up To You was a little more ambitious… we approached The Warhol Foundation about usage rights for Warhol’s Flowers but even a generous offer from them was considerably more than a Doncaster-based indie record label could dream of paying. We went back and forth with a person at the Foundation to try to find a way forward… off the record they suggested we re-create the work in the same spirit without copying it. So, working with friends at Psalter Lane Art College, that’s what we did.