Andrew Heskins

Need a senior designer who's a dab hand with both digital and printed projects? Look no further...

[Andrew Heskins @AHeskinsDesign]

Ever since I saw this little gem at the London Film Festival, I know I've been talking about on about it #Freelance

We all love our clients but... well, I think this succinctly distils the importance of getting a good brief into just over two minutes!

https://t.co/oz3tXqyiHQ

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It's #NewYearsEve, and time for one final selection from our #vinylAdvertCalendar: The O'Jays and 'Christmas Ain't Christmas New Years Ain't New Years Without The One You Love'. From the legendary @mrkennygamble & @LeonAHuff on #philadelphiainternational. Never a truer word sung!

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It's #day24 and that can only mean one thing: our last selection from our #vinylAdvertCalendar! This 1982 jampacked compilation from Stax! Classics here include tracks from Staple Singers (@mavisstaples), The Emotions, Mack Rice, Isaac and more! Merry Christmas! 🎄☃️🎅🏻

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It's #day23 of our #vinylAdvertCalendar and we're nearly at the end, and time for one of my favourites. It's @jimmycastor_, known for the funk classic It's Just Begun, and Castor's own composition Merry Christmas. It's actually the B-side but much more heartfelt and groovy... ❤️

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We're on to #day22 and getting close to the special day! Time for one of the all-time Christmas classics. It's the legendary Donny Hathaway and his own composition This Christmas, (credited under his alias Pitts). Donny left us too soon, but at least we have this gem of a song...

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#day21 of the #vinylAdvertCalendar, and time for one of the best 'alternative' X-mas records of all: Ze Records compilation A Christmas Record, featuring August Darnell, Material & Nona Hendrix and Was (Not Was). Here The Waitresses appears just after Cristina's Things Fall Apart

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How do you say 'Merry Christmas' when you don't want to say 'Merry Christmas'? How about 'Feliz Navidad'? #day20 of our #vinylAdvertCalendar and enter @josefeliciano and his (bizarrely, can I say this?) self-titled Christmas album, José Feliciano! 🤣

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If you've been enjoying our #vinylAdvertCalendar, but are still wondering what to listen to, one not try another of my #mixtapesOfChristmasPast. Here's my entry from 2019!

https://t.co/K6HolzUkI0

#funkyChristmas #soulchristmas #ChristmasMixtape

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It's #day19 of the #vinylAdvertCalendar, and time for the #troubleman himself, Marvin Gaye, and the so-called lost album 'You're The Man'. Some Christmas cuts here, with instrumental Christmas In The City and I Want To Come Home For Christmas, both composed by Gaye and Hairston!

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As the #vinylAdvertCalendar continues, it's time for another look back at the #mixtapesOfChristmasPast, and here is the very first - from 2011! 😱

#funkyChristmas #soulchristmas #ChristmasMixtape

https://t.co/4o64vz6LRw

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It's #day18 or our #vinylAdvertCalendar, and time to have a little fun with Khruangbin's take on Vince Guaraldi Trio's classic from the Charlie Brown Christmas special, Christmas Time Is Here! Sure is, baby!

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It's #day17 and time to drop another comp in our #vinylAdvertCalendar! @StrutRecords' long out-of-print and highly desirable In The Christmas Groove is full of some the funkest X-mas songs around, including Funky Funky Christmas (that's one more than the Whispers!)

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For #day16 of our #vinylAdvertCalendar we've picked out The Whispers and their album Happy Holidays To You. Amongst their takes on standards - there's a nice take on Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - band member Nicholas Caldwell contributes the aptly-named Funky Christmas!

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On #day15 of our #vinylAdvertCalendar, it's time for a cheeky little entry into the seasonal albums with @aloeblacc's Christmas Funk! Alongside Blacc's own Funky Ass Christmas and I Got Your Christmas Right Here, he also takes on familiar classics from Mariah and Wham!

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Time for another newie on from #vinylAdvertCalendar, and this may well be the newest of the lot! #day13 is Time For Love by The Yuletime Lifters. Proper old school vocals from Ron Preyer, Torrénce Brannon and Clarence Matheney, backed by the usual @DaptoneRecords session players!

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It's #day12 of the #vinylAdvertCalendar, time for a bit of classy, groovy jazz, with Don Patterson and Holiday Soul, originally on the Prestige label. Minimal set-up -Don on organ, Pat Martino on guitar and Billy James on drums - maximum x-mas groove...

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#day11 and time for another compilation on the #vinylAdvertCalendar! It's one of several of #tramprecords excellent Santa's Funk & Soul Christmas Party! Volume three was another fine entry, with some disco funk with Timi Terrific And The Redheads and The Bionic I!👍

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Every now and then the collection takes you
by surprise! #day10 of the #vinylAdvertCalendar, and
I'd completely forgotten a soulful take on Silent Night on the flipside of 80s soul classic Heaven by
@BebeWin29240395 and @cecewinans. A full Christmas album would come 5 years later

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#day9 of the #vinylAdvertCalendar, and time for another fairly recent addition to the Christmas LP tradition, the awesome @aliciakeys and Santa Baby! 🎅

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Been enjoying our #vinylAdvertCalendar? Then why not check out our funky Christmas mixtape, played straight off the vinyl...

https://t.co/IQYGbpsotM