Akcent Media

09/10/2026

07/10/2026

Fantastic to watch Sam Carter on Sunday evening at our great hometown venue Cambridge Junction, celebrating the wonderful music of Nic Jones!

We've worked on physical media for Sam for a couple of years now - most recently with this year's 'Sam Carter Sings Nic Jones: Live at Celtic Connections', which had a lovely nod to Nic's 'Penguin Eggs' album cover (which incidentally, we've produced many-a CD press of as well as the 'The Enigma of Nic Jones' DVD for Topic Records).

We also made card wallets, printed on the reverse side of the board, for Sam's EP 'The Oakham Poacher' (2025) which looked brilliant.

Then was our first work, his excellent album 'Silver Horizon' (2024) which was so much fun to work on. Both CD and LP packaging were printed onto the reverse side, which looks and feels great. The LP was split with a limited-edition run of orange vinyl which really popped with colour against the black and white of the packaging. The artwork looked amazing, and was designed and put together by the very talented team at JMG Studio.

Please do check out Sam's music and grab yourself a CD/vinyl - long live physical media! 💿

His tour, Ballads and Songs: Sam Carter Sings Nic Jones still has three dates to go - so if you're around Chester (09/10), Derby (10/10) or Leicester (11/10) get a ticket, it's a beautiful show 🎵

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05/10/2026

We worked with Spenwood Books and Gary Numan on his A People’s History book, by Richard Bowes, earlier this year ahead of the European tour.

We coordinated litho printed + digital serial numbered tip in sheets to be signed by Gary out in California; then bound text blocks for softback and hardback editions, 400 of which went into slipcases.

02/10/2026

It’s always a pleasure to work with George and hear his latest music, and it was definitely the case to work on the vinyl and CDs for The Bracken & Tread – George’s second album. The artwork is fantastic on this, again designed by the brilliant Chris Hood ( ) – it always puts the project in good stead, knowing the artwork is going to look great and work great. Audio mastered by Ben Pike ( ) whose great work ensured this sounds as good on vinyl as it does.

The Bracken & Tread has a different feel from album #1, The Promise of Spring (2024), drawing on a lot of inspiration from travel in Nepal – resulting in 10 fantastic tracks displaying George’s talent and nods to Nepal, which will get the head bobbing throughout the album!

For this album, we again manufactured a split-run of vinyl – including a limited-edition run of 100 yellow vinyl in hand-numbered outer sleeves. Printed inner sleeves containing the disc have the lyrics printed so that you can sing along are always great, and make for a traditional vinyl experience.

We also made CDs to match, again featuring Chris Hood’s artwork – these are a 4pp digifile with a capacity pocket, to house a printed card wallet containing the CD, and looking very smart indeed!

George is donating to Nepalese charities with every physical copy purchased, and is also shouting out to encourage donations in the wake of the devastating flooding in Central Nepal. We encourage everyone to donate if at all possible, it all helps.

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30/09/2026

We were over-the-moon to deliver these vinyl records to Ben, as the design came out absolutely perfectly in print. This is one of the cleanest, and well-working designs we’ve done and we’re very proud of how they turned out for Ben.

This features a printed inner sleeve with liner notes/lyrics and outer sleeve both printed on uncoated material for a textured, tactile look which looks fantastic with this design.

The run was also split, with a super-limited edition run of red vinyl, again to match the wonderful artwork. Also made were simple card wallet CDs that matched this design, which also came out wonderfully.

Thanks for the trust with this production, Ben – this was a brilliant project to work on, and a lovely EP to-boot.