Beer and Skittles

The Hulamen , Music Video – 1982

from the EP Beer and Skittle (1982)

Hulamen gigs were events: there were at least 10 musicians on stage, with the spotlight shared between up to half-a-dozen singers. Plus, the Eelman website recalls, "percussionist-without-portfolio Ronny Pelicano (aka Tim Robinson) and his Fred-Astaire-on-acid dance routines. At the Terminus Tavern, Steven McDougall, the group’s tireless tech, erected a platform above the stage where a pair of female dancers ‘the Hulettes’ would gyrate to the funk."
– Writer Murray Cammick on The Hulamen, AudioCulture, 22 November 2013

Amongst the Eelman collective were a number of visual artists who were vital to the overall aesthetic. The bright cartoonish sleeve of 'Beer and Skittles' established a look that would carry through to the end of the Eel-days. The surreal illustration on the front was by Tim Bollinger, whose work would also ornament the Daylights' A Bop In The Ocean album. Andrew Clouston, creator of the Eelman persona and logo, decorated the back cover with cartoon characters including the Eelman himself.
– Excerpt from Nick Bollinger's history of Eelman Records, Eelman Records website