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The rowdily titled new album Oi oi oi from Boys Noize hits the streets at the beginning of October, but if you think you have seen the cover somewhere before, that may well be because it bears more than a passing resemblance to the OTT blingtastic $100 million diamond encrusted skull unveiled by Damian Hirst earlier this year. But as the old chicken and egg adage goes, which came first, the diamonds or the disco ball?
As this amateurish YouTube "video" rather clumsily points out, it seems that Berlin's rebel with a cause Alex Ridha has indeed stolen a march on old Hirsty, using the skull-shaped disco ball image as a logo for a considerable period of time before it graced the cover of his album, as any self-respecting electrotrash aficionado will know. "But I don’t really like the Damien Hirst skull, so I don’t care if he stole the idea," Ridha recently told the Montreal Mirror. "The one I use is a bit older, so he probably saw it and got inspired by it, but I think it’s just a big waste of money. Who needs this expensive skull? It’s just ridiculous, really.”
Hirst is presumably equally unperturbed (the phrase "laughing all the way to the bank" has surely never been more apt), even if the disco ball comparisons have dogged his latest extravagant work since day one. "I was worried it might look like a skull ring - spend all that money and you just end up with a disco ball, shock horror," he told The Guardian's Maev Kennedy at the dazzling White Cube gallery unveiling.
But for us, the now-classic Halloween Meathead creation will always be our favourite way to decorate a skull...
Preorder Boys Noize's Oi oi oi album from Amazon.
Read the Montreal Mirror interview with Boys Noize.
Read Maev Kennedy's take on the Hirst skull on The Guardian's Art & Architecture blog.
Watch the Damian Hirst: genius or thief? video on YouTube.
Boys Noize website
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fun rave breaks from the terrifying one's 'analogue bubblebath 3'
i suppose you'd call this slicing techno. on the enormous 'play' album, of course.
available on an old ep of theirs, or 
from his bumper 'sur la terre' album for defected.
what is dj itunes trying to tell us? he is alive, number five!
because we all love a bit of electro pop.
rumoured to be the next single - one for the car freaks.
perfection from their 'one word extinguisher' album.
dj itunes has been into them for foreverrrr - since before dj itunes was even invented infact.
fantastic shuffle country from his truly beautiful 'knock knock' album.
