Engravings (Kate Messages)

[willker@chemie.uni-bremen.de (Wieland Willker)]

Hallo friends, 

inspired by the reading in KBC No. 5 (5. april 1980):
Interview: ". . . Do you know anything about the messages scratched on the
            smooth circle just before the centre of the records?"
Kate: . . . I wrote them and they are messages to go with the record."


I took all my records and inspected them carefully:

Here are my results:

Singles:

- December will be magic again: "Happy Christmas"
- The Dreaming:                 "For Rolf"
- TWW, Picturedisk:             "Up yours ugly" 
- The Red Shoes:             A: "One for the Arcters" 
                             B: "Buzzzz"  
Rubberband Girl:  " . AMONT" (very thin, maybe one more letter in front,
                              any idea?)

Maxis:

- Moments of Pleasure: "Alive and kicking"
- Rubberband Girl:     "Whack it on"

LPs

- The Red Shoes: "For H"


These engravings are sometimes difficult to identify. You should use a good
lamp. There are also several single letters, sometimes appears -ORLAKE-
and -TOWNHOUSE- . It seems to me that these messages only appear on UK
records. However, most of my records are from Germany or Europe. So I think
there can be many more messages. I would like to collect them. 

Would you please inspect all of your records and send me an email to:
willker@slater.chemie.uni-bremen.de
I will collect everything and present the result then here again. 

Best wishes
            Wieland