I need to ask the band a question. What is the name of the person who took the black and white silhouette on the cover of Dig Your Own Hole? Also is the person on the cover male or female???

Well , i think its a female.

But the other question , i do not know supadupanerd! ( love the name! )

I read somewhere that they found the picture outside the studio in a bin or something and thought it summed up the album really well so it got used. Might have been in Jockey Slut magazine when 93-03 came out.

I swear they answered this in an old interview somewhere?

didn't they once joke it was a picture of paul oakenfold when he was young?

they found it in a dumpster outside the studio didn't they?

found it on a "Skip" I think the word was... whatever that is... or was that the name of the album???

When I read the title I thought it was about a cover of the song "Dig your own hole" :(

Me too Benj!

Though I couldn't figure out why that particular track.

They said that it was a picture someone made on the side of a drug store and they decided to use it for the album.

I heard they found it in a skip too. think it was an old nme interview or something.

What is a skip? :?

Well after reading your replies (thanks) i'm left with more questions. My guess is that the term 'skip' is a uk-term, but anyone please care to elaborate what that means (sorry i'm a united state-ian). Also from what prochem is saying, is there any way for me to verify this? Also if Evermin is correct i wouldn't mind reading that article as well. Apologies for trudging up mud, but i have a freind that is telling me that it is their sillhouette on the cover and they only have thin circumstantial proof to back it up... But i really want to shove proof in their face.

A Skip is a big metal bin like thing that you put your rubbish in!

http://www.broxbourn...%20rochford.JPG

i thought the album title 'dig your own hole' was graffitied on a skip

'i thought the album title 'dig your own hole' was graffitied on a skip'

yeh thats what i remember reading too....

as for the picture, i dunno, but im pretty sure its not tom n ed...

Well, I just spent way too much time trying to dig up old threads and my searching skills have gotten weak. Anyway, here's a thread that has a transcript of a Raft web chat Q & A where they joke that the person on the cover is Paul Oakenfold when he was young:

http://www.thechemic...page&replies=22

Oakie on the cover is not true (why would the mighty Chems put that cheesy knob on their cover??) - I've heard the skip graffiti thing before and I *know* it's been discussed. I just can't find it. Maybe I'll give it another shot - I want to help you prove your friend wrong supadupanerd! ;)

It's not much, and it's not always the most reliable source, but wikipedia has a blurb about the artwork too:

http://en.wikipedia....emical_Brothers

the artwork was found in a skip outside orinoco and the title was tagged onto a wall close by to the studio as well.

irish at your service

irish = the new anType?