Adventures in Wonderland: The Falcon Stuart and X-Ray Spex archive
Falcon Stuart - photographer, film maker and manager of X-Ray Spex
Falcon Stuart was a photographer and film maker before he moved into the music industry, where he produced and managed the punk band, X-Ray Spex. Falcon Stuart also photographed the band and created artwork for their only album - Germfree Adolescents.
After X-Ray Spex disbanded, Stuart worked with Adam Ant, helping to launch the career of Adam and the Ants. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Falcon Stuart worked with other bands (Classix Nouveaux and Amazulu), while setting up Awesome Records - an Independent record label that released albums by Danielle Dax. Falcon Stuart died in 2002 and his archive has been donated to LJMU.
The Falcon Stuart archive
The Falcon Stuart collection contains a wealth of audio visual material including:
- original artwork
- posters
- photographs
- promotional merchandise
- film
- vinyl records
Items have been displayed in exhibitions both in the University and nationally. Additionally, the collection has been used to support teaching and learning in Liverpool School of Art and Design.
Work on this collection is ongoing. A box list of the collection is available from the LJMU Archivist.
