:-)) Been smiling at these two all week, Aussie Test Pressing and demo of the classic Bob Kuban and the IN-MEN - The Cheater. Read that Festival didn't make too many test presses, upto 6 to test the process, so they are very rare...

 

 

and this NZ Okaysions, not a rare record at all, but dig that sleeve, I had to have it...

The Bob Kuban is a bootleg, quite an oddity really as they didn't seem to do a lot of bootlegging in Australia, I've been told it had something to do with Dixons records in Blackburn (Victoria not Lancs) and they also did a similar boot of Tony Pass "Spring Fever". The sound quality on all the copies I've had is poor. BTW Stateside was never part of the Festival group of labels, but you know that Mal!

hey frank, An Aussie boot, made to look like a Aussie test press, well it fooled the bloke I bought it off,  and me! never come across any Aussie boots...

As for the group of labels, would it be right to say most got their 45's pressed at the same plant? Ive asked about but info has always been scant...

Edited September 3, 20159 yr by Mal C

Fooled me for a while too.

I believe Festival pressed all their own vinyl in Sydney and the K series 45's look the same, different to RCA, EMI and CBS (Aristocrat) pressings, although similar to Astor pressings that were pressed in Melbourne.

There is a wiki entry with a brief history of the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Records

 

Well bugger me! I thought I  had done well with Bob Cuban too!! picked one up at the local record fair [Perth] excactly like the scan for a couple of dollars a couple of years ago and felt well chuffed, now I feel well cheated :-(