New art mural celebrating The Fratellis unveiled at Edinburgh shopping centre

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The Fratellis’ debut Costello Music has been honoured for National Album Day and to mark the occasion a mural has been created re-imagining the artwork as a Jack Vettriano painting.In association with Bowers and Wilkins and BBC Sounds, National Album Day returns for its 5th edition this weekend (Saturday, October 15) celebrating this year’s theme of debut albums.

Global hit Costello Music - which brought us Chelsea Dagger - had a pin-up style look for the artwork, in keeping with the signature song.So the new take by Scots artist Gerry Gapinski, which is today unveiled outside Avalanche Records in Edinburgh's Waverley Centre, fits nicely with elements of Vettriano’s iconic style.Frontman Jon Fratelli said: “We’re really pleased Costello Music has been chosen to be part of National Album Day – for us recording an actual album with an incredible producer in a studio that we’re still not sure really exists all felt magical enough.“To see it for sale in the record stores that we’d spent half our lives in was surreal.

To hear that people were actually buying copies was just about the best news we’d ever heard. The artwork for the album almost perfectly captured the character of the band and the music at that time.“Reimagining it in the style of Jack Vettriano makes sense to me and we are all really happy with the result – it’s a clever interpretation and we feel honoured to have been chosen for the mural. “If it encourages people to pick up an album, whether it’s ours or someone they maybe haven’t really heard before, then that’s great.

Whatever the art form, an artist being influenced or inspired by something we created is always a good thing.”The Fratelli’s 2006 debut was chosen by Avalanche Records owner Kevin Buckle