A Glasgow rock band is being honoured as part of National Album Day on Saturday.
The Fratellis, who formed in 2005 and released Costello Music the following year, are being honoured as part of this year’s theme of debut albums.
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The album had a series of hits including Chelsea Dagger, which earned The Fratellis international recognition.
National Album Day, which is partnered with BBC Sounds and Bowers and Wilkins, was first launched in 2018 to celebrate the album format.
To mark the occasion, a mural by Gerry Gapinski that reimagines the Costello Music artwork as the Singing Butler painting by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano has been unveiled outside Avalanche Records in Edinburgh.
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Frontman Jon Fratelli said: “We’re really pleased Costello Music has been chosen to be part of National Album Day. For us recording an actual album with an incredible producer in a studio that we’re still not sure really exists all felt magical enough.
“To see it for sale in the record stores that we’d spent half our lives in was surreal. To hear that people were actually buying copies was just about the best news we’d ever heard.
“The artwork for the album almost perfectly captured the character of the band and the music at that time.
“Reimagining it in the style of Jack Vettriano makes sense to me and we are all really happy with the result. It’s a clever interpretation and we feel honoured to have been chosen for the mural.
“If it encourages people to pick up an album, whether it’s ours or someone they maybe haven’t really heard before, then that’s great.
“Whatever the art form, an artist being influenced or inspired by something we created is always a good thing.”
The Fratellis play the OVO Hydro with the Kaiser Chiefs on November 11, with tickets on sale now.
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