Compiled with guitarist PJ Court, this 2-CD compilation boasts re-mastered music as well as a beautifully annotated booklet boasting rare photos and personal memories from the band.

Back in the mid-80s, The Primitives combined the fuzz guitars of The Jesus & Mary Chain with the pop sensibilities of Blondie and a nod to cult heroes The Velvet Underground. They swiftly rose from being a popular Indie guitar outfit to charting worldwide with “Crash”, kickstarting a craze in bands fronted by blonde female singers (Transvision Vamp, The Darling Buds et al).

Between 1985 and 1987, the band issued five singles/EP’s on independent label Lazy Records (also home to My Bloody Valentine and later Birdland) before signing with RCA.

This 2-CD set also boasts their promo-only live album at the ICA; as such, it offers their entire Lazy output from that period.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. Thru The Flowers
2. Across My Shoulder
3. She Don't Need You
4. Lazy
5. Really Stupid
6. We Found A Way To The Sun
7. Where The Wind Blows
8. Stop Killing Me
9. Buzz Buzz Buzz
10. Laughing Up My Sleeve
11. Ocean Blue
12. Shadow (Guitar Version)
13. Thru The Flowers (New Version)
14. Everything Shining Bright
15. Nothing Left
16. Across My Shoulder
17. Crash
18. Spacehead
19. Nothing Left (Sounds Version)

Disc 2
1.I'll Stick With You
2. Dreamwalk Baby
3. Buzz Buzz Buzz
4. Nothing Left
5. Out Of Reach
6. Carry Me Home
7. Don't Want Anything To Change
8. Think I'll Stick With You
9. Dreamwalk Baby
10. Run Baby Run
11. Thru The Flowers
12. Nothing Left
13. Where The Wind Blows
14. Out Of Reach
15. We Found A Way To The Sun
16. Don't Want Anything To Change
17. Across My Shoulder
18.Everything's Shining Bright
19. Buzz Buzz Buzz
20. Stop Killing Me
21. I Wanna Be Your Dog

• The new solo album by Luke Haines (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, Baader Meinhof).

• Focusing on the magic and magicians of British children's TV of the 1960s and 70s.

• Featuring 14 songs that conjure up everyone from Mama Cass to Tommy Cooper, and Graham Bond to Mick Robertson via Magic Shops and The Omen 2.

It all started with Sooty and the dreaded words 'Izzy Wizzy Let's Get Bizzy'. A wave of Sooty's magic wand, cast a few spells and baby there ya go. Generations of children were introduced to magic, and as we all know, magic always leads to MAGICK...

By the 1960s and 70s magick was all over children's television in the UK.

Turn over to ITV - if you are allowed - Izzy Wizzy Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

TRACK LISTING

1. Izzy Wizzy Let's Get Bizzy
2. Mama Cass
3. Death Card For The Kids
4. Tommy Cooper - Chaos Magician
5. Headchanger
6. Mum
7. TV's On All The Time
8. The Omen 2
9. The Standing Stones Of ITV
10. Mick Robertson Says
11. Spiritualist Church at 7.30pm Every Other Wednesday
12. Graham Bond Turns On His Mellotron
13. Magic Shop
14. Izzy Wizzy (reprise)

• New studio material and unheard archive recordings.
• Reworked classics and live-in-studio performances.
• Includes the final Huw Lloyd-Langton recording.
• UK live activity supporting release in 2026.

Hawkwind return with a new release that blurs the boundaries between studio album, archive excavation and future transmission. Combining brand new recordings, previously unheard material and reworked classics, this forward-facing collection captures the band in motion rather than looking back.

New tracks including 'Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad', 'There Are Fairies In The Garden', 'The Judge And The Fisherman' and 'Goonhilly Downs' showcase the current line-up’s continued creative strength. Re-imagined versions of 'The Demented Man' and 'Those Days Of The Underground', alongside live-in-the-studio recordings of 'PSI Power' and 'The Traveller Of Space', bring fresh energy to key moments from the band’s catalogue.

Highlights include 'Hurry On Sundown', the final recording with Huw Lloyd-Langton, plus rare material from Dave Brock and Magnus Martin.

TRACK LISTING

1. Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad
2. There Are Fairies In The Garden
3. Hurry On Sundown
4. The Demented Man
5. Tortured Mind
6. Land Of Min
7. Part Of Human Behaviour (No Sex Allowed)
8. Those Days Of The Underground
9. Out Of Luck
10. PSI Power
11. Human Zoo
12. The Judge And The Fisherman
13. Goonhilly Down
14. Ocean’s Spiral
15. Traveller Of Space

• The Pale Fountains were an English band formed in Liverpool in 1980, and composed of Mick Head, Chris McCaffery, Thomas Whelan, Andy Diagram and Ken Moss.

• Inspired by 1960s music such as Love, Burt Bacharach and The Beatles, the group released their debut single ‘(There's Always) Something on My Mind’ in October 1982. Although the Pale Fountains failed to make much commercial headway, the band would earn critical praise for the two albums released on Virgin, ‘Pacific Street’ (1984) and ‘...From Across the Kitchen Table’ (1985).

This 4-CD box set brings together both albums as well as all the B-Sides, mixes, and some previously unreleased material from the Virgin vaults all housed in a sturdy box with extensive sleeve notes by Classic Pop’s John Earls.

Mick Head – Vocals, Guitar (1981–1987)
Chris McCaffery – Bass Guitar (1981–1987)
Thomas Whelan – Drums (1981–1987)
Andy Diagram – Trumpet (1982–1984)
John Head – Guitar (1984–1987)

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Michael Head's first band were so romantic and melodic and young and beautiful. It's all here!

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE: 
Pacific Street
1 Reach
2 Something On My Mind
3 Unless
4 Southbound Excursion
5 Natural
6 Faithful Pillow (Pt 1)
7 (Don't Let Your Love) Start A War
8 Beyond Fridays Field
9 Abergele Next Time
10 Crazier
11 Faithful Pillow (Pt 2)
BONUS TRACKS
12 Thank You - Single
13 Meadow Of Love - Single B Side
14 (There's Always) Something On My Mind - Remix
15 Palm Of My Hand - Single
16 Palm Of My Hand - Instrumental - Single B Side
17 Love's A Beautiful Place - Single B Side
18 Unless - Extended Version 12" Single
19 (Don't Let Your Love) Start A War - Single
20 (Don't Let Your Love) Start A War - Extended Version 12" Single
21 Love Situation - Single B Side

DISC TWO:
Mixes And Unreleased Tracks
1 Partner Picking Man - Rough Mix With Bass And
Drums*
2 Fight Think Love / Love Situation - Rough Mix Take 1*
3 Jock's A String Bean - Rough Mix*
4 Fight Think Love / Love Situation - Rough Mix Take 2*
5 Spanish Tragedy (Beyond Fridays Field) - Rough Instrumental Mix*
6 Take A Little Shelter - Rough Mix Take 2*
7 Partner Picking Man - Acoustic*
8 Sun Drenched Girl (Crazier) - Acoustic
9 Lavinia's Dream - Rough Mix Take 1
10 (There's Always) Something On My Mind - Rough Mix
11 Hey There Fred - Rough Mix
12 One By One - Rough Mix Take 2*
13 Norfolk Broads - Rough Mix Take 1
14 Untitled Jam / 7 And 7 Is*
15 Unless - Rough Mix
16 (There's Always) Something On My Mind - Rough Mix
17 Sundrenched Girl (Crazier) - Rough Mix
18 Southbound Excursion - Rough Mix

DISC THREE:
From Across The Kitchen Table
1 Shelter
2 Stole The Love
3 Jean's Not Happening
4 Bicycle Thieves
5 Limit
6 27 Ways To Get Back Home
7 Bruised Arcade
8 These Are The Things
9 Its Only Hard
10 ...From Across The Kitchen Table
11 Hey
12 September Sting 

DISC FOUR:
Mixes And Unreleased Tracks
1 From Across The Kitchen Table - Extended Version 12" Single
2 Bicycle Thieves - Remix Single B Side
3 Just A Girl - Remix Single B Side
4 Thank You - Remix Single B Side
5 Silver Bendix – Demo*
6 The Outsider – Demo*
7 Detrimentally (Stole The Love) - Demo
8 27 Ways To Get Back Home - Demo
9 Summertime (It's Hard) -Demo
10 Shelter - Demo
11 Yeah Eah Eah – Demo*
12 These Are The Things (Stay) - Demo
13 Bruised Arcade - Demo

*Previously Unreleased.

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 18TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM (BST) ON MONDAY APRIL 20th).

The first ever 12" reissue of Human League's seminal debut single, a landmark record in British synth pop/electronica. Originally issued on Fast Product in 1978 then a hit when reissued on Virgin, this orange RSD 12" has been expanded to feature a selection of exclusive and super-rare bonus tracks from John Peel Sessions in 1978.

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 18TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

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First-ever live performance from the Creation Records era to be released by one of *the* break-out UK indie bands of 1988. This celebratory London show coincided with end-of-year music press praise being heaped on their eponymous debut album (issued in May) and subsequent single ‘Destroy The Heart’ (which would top John Peel’s festive 50 at the end of the year).

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 18TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

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All hail the exclusive RSD re-issue of one of the most sought-after albums by English post-punk heroes The Fall. Originally released in 2001 on Cog Sinister this is the first 1LP reissue of a Mark E Smith triumph which is repressed on pink and black swirl vinyl to celebrate it's 25th anniversary for Record Store Day.

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 18TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM (BST) ON MONDAY APRIL 20th).

Green Mind was the fourth studio album by grunge rock royalty Dinosaur Jr., originally released in 1991. It was the band's first release after bassist Lou Barlow's departure, and their first released by a major label.

2026 sees the 35th anniversary of this landmark record, that quickly established the sound of US grunge that would follow throughout the 1990s. This exclusive live set captures the band performing tracks from Green Mind live in Hollywood around the release of this well-loved and critically acclaimed record. This raw live set has never been released on vinyl before and is made available on transparent vinyl exclusively for RSD.

We present the fourth volume in this critically acclaimed series - this time a prequel, exploring the transitional year 1979, a period which saw electronic pop move from curio, fad and novelty status into the credible post-punk pop landscape. A story of experimental and eccentric artists, outsider aesthetics and the fusion of the spirit of punk with a pop sensibility.

Featuring an array of artists who would become household names and dominate the pop scene during the first half of the 1980s, alongside lesser-known scenesters, independent innovators and one-off scene hoppers, ‘Musik Music Musique 1979’ provides a perfect backdrop to our previous three volumes. Call it a prequel, call it back story - packed with great pop music, a twist of the weird and wonderful and plenty of floor-fillers, this is a snapshot of a vital year in the wake punk rock, when a new path suggested throughout the 1970s was finally cut, paved and explored.

Eclectic, endlessly innovative and, most importantly, enduringly listenable, ‘Music Musik Musique 1979’ is an international adventure, throwing the spotlight on those brave enough to take the first steps into the rainbow of electronic music that would come to define the 1980s.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 The Buggles - Technopop
2 M - Made In Munich
3 The Korgis - Cold Tea
4 Metal Voices - At The Banks Of The River
5 Yello - I. T. Splash
6 Dalek I - The Kiss
7 Karel Fialka - Armband
8 Japan - Life In Tokyo (Pt 1)
9 Black Rod - Going To The Country
10 Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
11 Dollar - Star Control (B- Side Mix)
12 Quantum Jump - The Lone Ranger (1979 Remix)
13 Fashiøn – Technofascist
14 The Cars - Night Spots
15 Devo - Strange Pursuit
16 Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club - Video Killed The Radio Star
17 Moebius- Mirror Of Infinity
18 Tanya Hyde - Herr Wunderbar
19 Final Program - Hanging Around
20 Metrophase - New Age

DISC TWO
1 Gary Numan - Cars
2 Giorgio Moroder - E=MC²
3 Gina X Performance - Nice Mover
4 Blah Blah Blah - In The Army
5 Gerry And The Holograms - Gerry And The Holograms (Alternate Drumbox Version) 6 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Almost
7 The Men - I Don't Depend On You
8 Telex - Rock Around The Clock
9 They Must Be Russians - Nagasaki's Children
10 Silicon Teens - Memphis Tennessee
11 Henry Badowski - Making Love With My Wife
12 After The Fire - One Rule For You
13 Cowboys International - Thrash
14 Jude - Mirror Mirror
15 Minny Pops - Dolphin's Spurt
16 Mi-Sex - Computer Games
17 Passage - 16 Hours
18 Zeus B. Held - Held It
19 The Family Fodder - Sunday Girl #1
20 Secret Service - Oh Susie

DISC THREE
1 The Human League - Blind Youth
2 Fad Gadget - Back To Nature
3 Landscape - Japan (12" Version)
4 Calvin Twilight - Harmony
5 Cuddly Toys - Madman (Original 1979 Japanese Mix) 6 R.L. Crutchfield’s Dark Day - Hands In The Dark
7 Visage - Frequency 7
8 New Musik - Living By Numbers
9 Suicide - Dream Baby Dream
10 John Foxx - Young Love (1979 Version)
11 The Dodgems - Science Fiction (Baby You're So)
12 Genocide - Pre Set Future
13 Hammer - Forever Tonight
14 Toyah - Computer
15 Thomas Leer And Robert Rental - Attack Decay
16 Plain Characters - Man In The Railings
17 Steve Hillage - Don't Dither Do It (7" Version)
18 La Düsseldorf - Rheinita (7" Version)
19 Tim Blake And Jean Phillipe Rykiel - New Jerusalem (Extract)
20 Instant Automatons - All You Need Is Love

Greatest hits’ compilation, the first time a complete overview of The Fall’s career has been available on vinyl.

When the CD was originally released it was seen as the most complete and best overview of the bands recorded work and has yet to be bettered.

As with the other Fall re-issues it has been compiled by Daryl Easlea (who also wrote the notes) in conjunction with Fall expert Conway Patton and has been mastered by long time engineer Andy Pearce with art by Becky

The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976. The band existed in some form until 2018, built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith.

Initially associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music went through several stylistic changes over the years, but was often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and was always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics. The band was noted for its prolific output: they released over 25 studio albums, and more than triple that counting live albums and other releases. They never achieved widespread public success beyond a handful of minor hit singles.

The band were long associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and cited The Fall as his favourite band, famously explaining, "They are always different; they are always the same."

TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE
1 Repetition
2 How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
3 Totally Wired
4 Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul
5 The Classical
SIDE TWO
1 The Man Whose Head Expanded
2 Cruiser's Creek
3 Mr Pharmacist
4 There's A Ghost In My House
5 Hit The North
6 Victoria
SIDE THREE
1 Telephone Thing
2 Free Range
3 Lost In Music
4 Behind The Counter - Single Version
5 Touch Sensitive
SIDE FOUR
1 Theme From Sparta FC - Single Version
2 Blindness
3 Bury
4 New Facts Emerge

4CD SET EXPLORING GRUNGE AND THE AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE UNDERGROUND 1984-1994.

• COMPILED WITH MUDHONEY’S MARK ARM.

During the late 1980s, whilst pop, rap and glam metal dominated the American airwaves, underground musicians sought an antidote. During the middle of the decade, from Seattle in the west to New York in the east, bands immersed in a less highly polished, raw and more powerful sound began to emerge, fusing punky garage band attitude with meaningful, often disenchanted lyrics and lashings of distortion to create something new. The “grunge” tag quickly took hold, absorbing bands from all over the States and becoming a social phenomenon, drawing countless other underground and college circuit bands into its orbit in the process. Overnight, macho rock was dead.

Featuring an embarrassment of key bands and classic tracks, alongside lesser-known nuggets and a hand-picked selection of Australasian artists who were inadvertently feeding into the scene, ‘You’re No Big Deal’ explores a vital period in post-punk American musical history, the rebirth of rock music and its new place among the underground elite. With sleevenotes from Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, whose previous band Green River were the first to be given the “grunge” tag, this is an on-the-ground, broad reaching dive into a time and place that saw the unlikeliest of anti-rock stars recalibrate what American guitar-based music could be, reconnecting it with ordinary suburban kids and reigniting punk rock’s spirit.

Packed with over 80 tracks spanning a decade, and presented in roughly chronological order, ‘You’re No Big Deal’ tells a story that spread far beyond the ambitions of its key players.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 Green River - Come On Down
2 Red Kross - Linda Blair 1984
3 10 Minute Warning - Stooge
4 Bam Bam - Villains (Also Wear White)
5 Poison 13 - One Step Closer
6 Meat Puppets - Swimming Ground
7 Feast - Look For The Light
8 The Scientists - If It's The Last Thing I Do
9 Husker Du - Crystal
10 Malfunkshun - My Only Fan
11 Dinosaur Jr - Little Fury Things
12 Soundgarden - Hunted Down
13 U-Men - Solid Action
14 Pixies - Caribou
15 Feedtime - Curtains
16 The Replacements - The Ledge
17 The Flaming Lips - Maximum Dream For Evil Knievel
18 Green River - This Town
19 Cosmic Psychos - Can't Come In
20 The Celibate Rifles - Jesus On TV
21 Happy Flowers - Mom And Dad Like The Baby More Than Me

DISC TWO
1 Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
2 Bundle Of Hiss - Rabies
3 The Fluid - Cold Outside
4 Cat Butt - 64 Funny Cars
5 Blood Circus - Two Way Street
6 Babes In Toyland - Dust Cake Boy
7 Scream - Fucked Without A Kiss
8 Ultra Vivid Scene - Mercy Seat
9 Girl Trouble - Riverbed
10 Crunchbird - Subway Circle
11 Soundgarden - Flower
12 Tad - Behemoth
13 Kill Sybil - Olympia (Single Version)
14 Love Battery - Between The Eyes
15 Seaweed - Inside
16 Skin Yard - Start At The Top
17 Gas Huffer - Firebug
18 Mudhoney - In And Out Of Grace
19 Helltrout - Smoking Lounge
20 Mother Love Bone - Thru Fade Away

DISC THREE
1 Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
2 L7 - Shove
3 Toadies - I Hope You Die
4 Pavement - From Now On
5 The Thrown Ups - Stockboy, Superhero
6 Poison Idea - Feel The Darkness
7 The Breeders - Glorious
8 Dinosaur Jr - The Wagon
9 Hole - Teenage Whore
10 Nomeansno - Body Bag
11 7 Year Bitch - Lorna
12 Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia
13 Mercury Rev - Syringe Mouth
14 Calamity Jane - Say It
15 Eric's Trip - Lost
16 Thrillhammer - Bleed
17 Cop Shoot Cop - Discount Rebellion
18 Treepeople - Ballard Bitter
19 Nubbin - Macaroni

DISC FOUR
1 Temple Of The Dog - Pushin' Forward Back
2 The Monkeywrench - I'm Blown
3 Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
4 Honcho Overload - Sugarfoot (Single Version)
5 Luscious Jackson - Keep On Rockin' It
6 Cheater Slicks - Murder (Live At CBGBs)
7 Beasts Of Bourbon – Just Right
8 The Gits - Here's To Your Fuck
9 Superchunk - Precision Auto
10 Dead Moon - It's O.K
11 Melvins - Set Me Straight
12 Patchouli Sewer - Beauty Sleep
13 Wool - Kill The Crow
14 Kim Salmon & The Surrealists - Non Stop Action Groove
15 Veruca Salt - All Hail Me (Remix)
16 Sleep Capsule - Eat It's Tongue
17 Steel Wool - Four Winds
18 Wicker Biscuit - Creepy Doll
19 Gary Young - Plant Man
20 Cellophane - Tripping Fields
21 St. Johnny – I Hate Rock And Roll

Take a ticket, find yourself a comfortable seat and embark on a musical journey across the underground musical landscape of 1970s Germany…. As the sound of the 1960s drifted off into outer space, open-minded musicians across Germany - East and West - forged their own unique path into the 1970s and beyond, strangely free of the overtly commercial and conformist concerns of their neighbours around Europe. Why this generation from this particular nation might be beyond giving a ficken is a topic for someplace else, but for reasons of their own Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, Faust, Conrad Schnitzler and their contemporaries sought not to explore the pop charts but the boundaries of inner space and intellectual curiosity, veering with wild and free abandon from rock to jazz to lengthy progressive wig outs and formative electronica in the process. Many never returned, lost and adrift on a sea of dope smoke and Moog arpeggios, but ‘Electric Junk’ nevertheless charts and documents their journey for future generations.

Compiled and sequenced with your own journey into inner space in mind, we proudly present a remarkable snapshot of a movement like no other. Rebellious, politically charged, communal and lysergically informed, these artists took their non-macho, long-haired proto punk outlook around the world in its many forms, finding favour throughout Europe, Asia and the US. Critical acclaim and the occasional hit were their rewards, alongside inadvertently inventing and influencing uncountable niche genres, questionable fashion statements and must-hear bands.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 GURU GURU - Electric Junk
2 JANE - Early In The Morning
3 BRAINTICKET - Black Sand
4 KRAAN - Head
5 KARTHAGO - Why Don't You Stop Buggin' Me
6 EPSILON - She Belongs To Me
7 ELOY - Daybreak
8 MESSAGE - Dreams And Nightmares (Dreams)
9 NOSFERATU - Highway
10 LA DÜSSELDORF - Silver Cloud

DISC TWO
1 KLAUS SCHULZE - Satz Gewitter (Energy Rise, Energy Collapse)
2 LAVA - Piece Of Peace
3 TANGERINE DREAM - Movements Of A Visionary
4 HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS - Regenmacher
5 CONRAD SCHNITZLER - Wild Space 6
6 NINE DAYS' WONDER - Moment
7 FAUST - Jennifer
8 NOVALIS - Dronsz
9 AGITATION FREE - You Play For Us Today
10 SILBERBART - Brain Brain 

DISC THREE:
1 EDGAR FROESE - Epsilon In Malaysian Pale
2 CLUSTER - Georgel
3 MY SOLID GROUND - The Executioner
4 POPOL VUH - Ah!
5 KLAUS SCHULZE - Some Velvet Phasing
6 TRIUMVIRAT - March To The Eternal City
7 TANGERINE DREAM - Ultima Thule Pt 1
8 EMBRYO - A Place To Go
9 FAUST - On The Way To Abamae
10 ELECTRIC SANDWICH - China (Single Version)
11 MY SOLID GROUND - Dirty Yellow Mist

DISC FOUR:
1 RAMSES - La Leyla
2 FRAME - Frame Of Mind
3 A.R. & MACHINES – Als Hätte Ich Das Alles Schon 'mal Gesehen
4 JANUS - Red Sun (2013 Remix)
5 GURU GURU - Stone In
6 HOELDERLIN - Schwebebahn
7 ORANGE PEEL - We Still Try To Change
8 PELL MELL - City Monster
9 OS MUNDI - A Question Of Decision
10 SWEET SMOKE - Darkness To Light

Originally issued in January 2005, ‘The Secret Migration’ was the sixth album by Mercury Rev.

In the UK, where the band were signed to V2, the album spawned two singles, ‘In A Funny Way’ and ‘Across Yer Ocean’.

Back in 2020, Cherry Red unveiled a deluxe 5CD edition of this sometimes overlooked album, compiled and co-ordinated in conjunction with Mercury Rev’s twin lynchpins, Jonathan Donaghue and Sean ‘Grasshopper’ Mackowiak.

Four years on, ‘The Secret Migration’ is treated to its first-ever reissue on vinyl – and with the added bonus of a second disc. Joining the original album are various B-sides and originally unissued out-takes.

Among the bonus are cover versions of Bobby Charles’ Bearsville gem ‘Tennessee Blues’; ‘Afraid’, originally by Chicago rock band Dovetail Joint; two Paul Westerberg songs, The Replacements’ ‘Androgynous’ and his solo effort ‘Good Day’; Daniel Johnston’s ‘Blue Clouds’; and ‘I Never Had It So Good’ by Paul Williams.

Formed in Buffalo, New York, in 1989, MERCURY REV quick grew to become leading figures in left field alternative rock. Earlier albums veered towards experimental, off-kilter psychedelia but by the end of the decade, the band had developed their own brand of serene, piano-based Americana with the acclaimed, best-selling LP ‘Deserter’s Songs’ (1998).

Mercury Rev are currently active with forthcoming shows over the coming months around a brand new studio album.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE 1
1. Secret For A Song
2. Across Yer Ocean
3. Diamonds
4. Black Forest (Lorelei)
5. Vermillion
6. In The Wilderness
SIDE 2
1. In A Funny Way
2. My Love
3. Moving On
4. The Climbing Rose
5. Arise
6. First-Time Mother's Joy (Flying)
7. Down Poured The Heavens
SIDE 3
1. Tennessee Blues (featuring Bonnie Anthony)
2. Afraid
3. Seagull
4. Androgynous
5. Mirror For A Bell
6. Good Times Ahead
7. I Never Had It So Good (featuring Bonnie Anthony)
SIDE 4
1. Blue Clouds
2. Late Night Request
3. A Season Of Poussin
4. Good Day
5. Look At Brutis With His Knife

THE LATEST IN THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL ‘C’ SERIES, RIFFING ON THE ORIGINAL ‘C86’ CASSETTE.

EXPLORING THE POST-BAGGY, PRE-BRITPOP INDIE SCENE OF 1992.

PACKED WITH WELL-KNOWN FAVOURITES – Radiohead, The Charlatans, Ride, Lush, Inspiral Carpets, Dodgy, Boo Radleys, The Auteurs, The Stairs, Levitation, Sultans Of Ping F.C. among them.

1992 saw the British indie scene unwittingly poised to go overground and global in the wake of the guitar’s revival in the early 1990s. ‘C92’ captures something of a no-man’s land moment in time, with the “baggy” scene brushed aside by American grunge and the artists who’d come to define the rest of the decade only beginning to emerge.

From the intensity of shoegaze pioneers Ride and Lush, through to melody-driven 60s revivalists Inspiral Carpets and The Stairs, in hindsight the year can be seen as a period of healthy transition and expansion which ultimately saw the scene pulled together by the music media under the umbrella term “Britpop”. Established names such as The Charlatans and Boo Radleys glided effortlessly over the landscape re-alignment, whilst soon-to-be household names like Radiohead and The Cranberries took their first tentative steps into a bigger world, enjoying the license to pursue their artistic persuasions with the luxury of major label financial backing. A sea change was clearly coming.

Essential for collectors of the ‘C’ series, fans of that time and place and anybody interested in the ongoing, mazy story of British pop music, ‘C92’ brings with it familiar favourites and previously unknown gems, to sit alongside other titles in the series.

TRACK LISTING

Disc One:
1 Radiohead - Prove Yourself
2 The Auteurs – Showgirl
3 Delicious Monster - Dull Dull Dull
4 Ride - Leave Them All Behind
5 Gallon Drunk - Bedlam
6 Swallow - Tastes Like Honey
7 Blind Mr Jones - Fading Fast
8 Adorable - Homeboy
9 Earwig - Safe In My Hands
10 Huggy Bear - Single Bullets
11 Jacob's Mouse - Oblong
12 Kinky Machine - Going Out With God
13 White Town - Bewitched
14 Wonky Alice - Sirius
15 Moonshake - Secondhand Clothes
16 Swirl - Grass Harps (Sing For Me)
17 Some Have Fins - Watered Down
18 The Last Peach - Jarvis
19 The Harvest Ministers - You Do My World The World Of Good

Disc Two:
1 The Cranberries - Dreams
2 Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love (Edit)
3 The Charlatans - Weirdo
4 Scorpio Rising - Saturnalia (7" Version)
5 Boo Radleys - Lazy Day
6 Th' Faith Healers - My Loser
7 Kingmaker - Eat Yourself Whole
8 Submarine - Chemical Tester
9 Bleach - Shotgun
10 Catherine Wheel - Balloon
11 Poppy Factory - Stars
12 Dodgy - Worth The Blood
13 The Rosaries - Leaving
14 Hair & Skin Trading Co - Ground Zero
15 Levitation - World Around
16 The Exuberants - Who Knows How Many Tonight
17 The Stairs - Mr Joke Shop Owner
18 Sun Dial - I Don't Mind (EP Version)
19 Headcleaner - Bogieman
20 Egyptian Kings – A Matter Of Time
21 Thousand Yard Stare - Comeuppance

Disc Three:
1 Inspiral Carpets - Dragging Me Down
2 Sweet Jesus - Real Babe
3 Lush - Superblast (Remix)
4 Revolver - Don't Ever Leave
5 Sultans Of Ping F.C - U Talk 2 Much
6 Daisy Chainsaw - Pink Flower
7 Teenage Filmstars - Kiss Me
8 Secret Shine - Secret Shine
9 Headtime - Being There
10 The Telescopes - You Set My Soul
11 The Revs - Julie Got A Raise
12 Mexico 70 - Wonderful Lie
13 Drop - Sorrow
14 The Wendys - Gobbledygook
15 The Suncharms - Tranquil Day
16 Medalark Eleven - I Call Your Name
17 Smashing Orange - Whenever
18 Greenhouse - Her Too
19 Spitfire - Wild Sunshine
20 The Moonflowers - Brothers And Sisters
21 Triple Blind - Stoke
22 Amelia Fletcher - Can You Keep A Secret?

Formed in Sunderland in 2000, The Futureheads spearheaded the UK’s post-punk revival with angular guitars, unconventional song structures and intricate four-part vocal harmonies.

The band’s debut album ‘The Futureheads’ (2004), which included their iconic cover of Kate Bush's ‘Hounds of Love’ (NME Single of the Year 2005), reached number 11 in the UK charts. Praise in 2006 was followed by extensive world touring and further albums; ‘This Is Not The World’ (2008), ‘The Chaos’ (2010) and a cappella album ‘Rant’ (2012) all on their own label, Nul Records.

After a hiatus, The Futureheads returned in 2019 with ‘Powers’ cementing their reputation as a band of joyous vitality.

Ross Millard - Vocals and Guitar
David "Jaff" Craig - Vocals and Bass Guitar
Barry Hyde - Vocals and Guitar
Dave Hyde – Vocals and Drums

TRACK LISTING

1 The Beginning Of The Twist
2 Hounds Of Love
3 Decent Days And Nights
4 Struck Dumb
5 Meantime
6 Skip To The End
7 Good Night Out
8 Radio Heart
9 Carnival Kids
10 Beeswing
11 Jekyll
12 Walking Backwards
13 Worry About It Later
14 A To B
15 Area
16 First Day
17 I Can Do That
18 Listen, Little Man!
19 Heartbeat Song

Ahead of the curve as ever, in 1972 The Residents turned their back on the mainstream music industry and established their own Ralph Records imprint, taking control of every aspect of the recording, design and manufacturing process of their records. Over the next decade, Ralph would release numerous seminal singles and albums by a diverse range of artists from both the US and Europe, capturing the zeitgeist perfectly in the era of punk and new wave, when the DIY aesthetic went overground.

Featuring key singles, vital album tracks and a number of recordings appearing on CD for the first time, as well as previously unheard material from Schwump, Snakefinger, MX-80 Sound and Gary Panter, ‘Buy Or Die!’ is not only an insight into The Residents’ world but also into the workings of their DIY mindset, with most of the tracks here being recorded in the group’s own studio, and released in artwork produced by their own graphics department. From established names such as Yello and The Residents themselves, to lesser-known gems by Fred Frith, Tuxedomoon et al, this is a distinctive snapshot of that experimental and open-minded time and place, as seen through the lense of one of America’s most adventurous artists.

Complete with a 7,500 word first hand account essay from The Residents’ Mysterious Archivist, plenty of unusual and rare imagery and many tracks sourced directly from the Ralph tape archive, all overseen by The Residents (enabled by RA), ‘Buy Or Die!’ will entertain, enthral and infuriate in equal measure.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 Ivory And The Brain Eaters - Fire
2 The Residents - Smelly Tongues
3 The Residents - Satisfaction
4 Schwump - Aphids In The Hall
5 Schwump - You're A Martian / Home
6 Schwump – ‘maginary Dreams (Demo)*
7 The Residents - Beyond The Valley Of A Day In The Life
8 The Residents - Tourniquet Of Roses
9 The Residents - Constantinople
10 Snakefinger - The Spot
11 Snakefinger - Smelly Tongues
12 The Residents - Hello Skinny
13 The Residents - Not Available (A Brief Introduction)
14 The Residents - Santa Dog '78
15 Art Bears - Rats & Monkeys
16 Art Bears - Collapse
17 Art Bears - The Winter Wheel
18 Snakefinger - What Wilbur?
19 Snakefinger - Kill The Great Raven
20 Chrome - Meet You In The Subway
*previously Unreleased

DISC TWO 
1 Chrome - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
2 MX-80 Sound - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
3 The Residents - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
4 Tuxedomoon - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
5 Snakefinger - Picnic In The Jungle
6 MX-80 Sound - Someday You'll Be King
7 MX-80 Sound - White Night
8 Tuxedomoon - What Use?
9 Tuxedomoon - 7 Years
10 MX-80 Sound - It's Not My Fault
11 Snakefinger - The Model
12 The Residents - Diskomo
13 Snakefinger - The Man In The Dark Sedan
14 The Residents - Amber
15 The Residents - Shut Up, Shut Up RDX
16 Gary Panter - Tornader To The Tater
17 Gary Panter - Italian Sunglasses Movie
18 Gary Panter - Rozz Tox*
19 Snakefinger - Golden Goat
20 MX-80 Sound - O Type
21 MX-80 Sound - Old Too Fast*
*previously Unreleased

DISC THREE
1 Fred Frith - Dancing In The Street
2 Fred Frith - What A Dilemma
3 Yello - Bimbo
4 Yello - I.T. Splash
5 Yello - Night Flanger
6 Yello - Bostich
7 Yello - Rock Stop
8 MX-80 Sound - Why Are We Here?
9 Tuxedomoon - Jinx
10 Tuxedomoon - Incubus (Blue Suit)
11 Fred Frith - A Spit In The Ocean
12 Fred Frith - Saving Grace
13 Renaldo And The Loaf - A Medical Man
14 Renaldo And The Loaf - Honest Joe's Indian Gets The Goat On The Way To The Cowboys' Conga
15 Renaldo And The Loaf - Ted's Reverie
16 Renaldo And The Loaf - Melvyn's Repose
17 Snakefinger - Breakfast In Baltimore (1981 EP Demo)*
18 Snakefinger - Life Isn't Easy (1981 EP Demo)*
19 Yello - Pinball Cha Cha
20 Yello - Homer Hossa
21 Snakefinger - Eva's Warning
22 The Residents - Would We Be Alive?
*previously Unreleased

‘A Distant Shore’ is a much loved indie classic.

Freshly mastered at Abbey Road Studios with new sleeve-notes penned by Tracey, this 2024 edition is available on both vinyl and CD, a beautifully presented reminder of the album’s elemental beauty.

Released to critical acclaim on Cherry Red back in September 1982, Tracey's debut solo album is full of engaging, melodic tunes and heartfelt lyrics delivered with her distinctive warm vocals.

Recorded for just £138 in a studio in a garden shed when she was a 19-year-old first-year student at Hull University, it is an astonishing demonstration of Tracey's songwriting talent, stripped down to vocal and semi-acoustic guitar.

The LP was released during a fertile period in her early career, when she was also playing with the group The Marine Girls and just about to embark on a life-long musical and personal partnership with Ben Watt in Everything But The Girl. Its stark minimalism made it stand out from the crowd, and the album remained on the Independent chart for many months. To this day, ‘A Distant Shore’ remains one of our proudest achievements here at Cherry Red Records.

Fully supported by the artist, 'A Distant Shore' is now being represented with the addition of five hitherto unheard demo recordings, hand-picked by Tracey from her archive of cassettes. ‘Lucky Day’ was recorded during the same session as the album but somehow never made the grade; the other four tracks here were recorded during a later session but then set aside, to be re-recorded a while later with EBTG for their first album, Eden. Freshly mastered at Abbey Road Studios with new sleeve-notes written by Tracey, this 2024 edition is available on both vinyl and CD, a beautifully presented reminder of the album’s elemental beauty.

TRACK LISTING

CD:
1 Small Town Girl
2 Simply Couldn't Care
3 Seascape
4 Femme Fatale
5 Dreamy
6 Plain Sailing
7 New Opened Eyes
8 Too Happy
Bonus Tracks
9 Lucky Day (Demo) *
10 Another Bridge (Demo) *
11 Even So (Demo) *
12 The Spice Of Life (Demo) *
13 Fascination (Demo) *
* Previously Unreleased

Vinyl:
Side A
1 Small Town Girl
2 Simply Couldn't Care
3 Seascape
4 Femme Fatale
5 Dreamy
6 Plain Sailing
Side B
1 New Opened Eyes
2 Too Happy
Bonus Tracks
3 Lucky Day (Demo) *
4 Another Bridge (Demo) *
5 Even So (Demo) *
6 The Spice Of Life (Demo) *
7 Fascination (Demo) *
* Previously Unreleased

Recorded on the band’s UK Tour of December 1972, which followed the release of the band’s recent studio album ‘DOREMI FASOL LATIDO’. The live show was a continuous performance linked by poetry recitation by Robert Calvert and was a complete audio-visual experience. Featuring the dancers Stacia, Miss Renee and Tony Carrera, the concerts also featured an elaborate light show by famed lighting designer Liquid Len. The Space Ritual tour followed the huge success of the Silver Machine single (although the song did not feature in the live set) and three concerts were captured on tape by the Pye Records mobile unit.

The resulting double album was adorned with memorable artwork and was a Top Ten hit in the UK upon its release in May 1973. This 50th anniversary 2LP black vinyl repress was cut at Abbey Road studios utilising the original master tapes.

TRACK LISTING

Side One
1. Earth Calling
2. Born To Go
3. Down Through The Night
4. The Awakening

Side Two
1. Lord Of Light
2. Black Corridor
3. Space Is Deep
4. Electronic No. 1

Side Three
1. Orgone Accumulator
2. Upside Down
3. 10 Seconds Of Forever
4. Brainstorm

Side Four
1. Seven By Seven
2. Sonic Attack
3. Time We Left This World Today
4. Master Of The Universe
5. Welcome To The Future

‘The Infotainment Scan’ was originally released in 1993 and was the band 15th studio album reaching no 9 on the album chart. 

This set contains singles and demos as well as BBC sessions and three live shows from the era.

Compiled in conjunction with Fall expert Conway Patton and has notes by Fall guru Daryl Easlea and have been mastered by long time engineer Andy Pearce with art by Becky Stewart.

The Fall are an English post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976. The band has existed in some form ever since, and is essentially built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith. Initially associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music has gone through several stylistic changes over the years, but is often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and is always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.

The band is noted for its prolific output: and have released over 25 studio albums, and more than triple that counting live albums and other releases. They have never achieved widespread public success beyond a handful of minor hit singles in the late 1980s, but have maintained a strong cult following.

The band were long-associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and cited The Fall as his favourite band, famously explaining, "They are always different; they are always the same."

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
The Infotainment Scan
1 Ladybird (Green Grass)
2 Lost In Music
3 Glam Racket
4 I'm Going To Spain
5 It's A Curse
6 Paranoia Man In Cheap Shit Room
7 Service
8 The League Of Bald-Headed Men
9 A Past Gone Mad
10 Light/Fireworks

DISC TWO
Bonus Tracks
1 Why Are People Grudgeful?
2 League Moon Monkey Mix
3 Why Are People Grudgeful? - Permanent Single
4 Glam Racket - Permanent Single
5 The Re-Mixer - Permanent Single
6 Lost In Music - Permanent Single
7 A Past Gone Mad - Alternate Version
8 Instrumental Outtake
9 Service - Instrumental Demo
10 Glam Racket - Instrumental Demo
11 Lost In Music - Mix 3
12 Lost In Music - Mix 7
13 Lost In Music - Mix 14

DISC THREE
At The BBC Peel Session 13/3/93
1 Ladybird (Green Grass)
2 Strychnine
3 Service
4 Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room Mark Goodier Session 17/5/93
5 Glam Racket
6 War
7 15 Ways
8 A Past Gone Mad Hallam University, Sheffield - April 7th 1993
9 Intro
10 Why Are People Grudgeful?
11 Ladybird
12 Glam Racket
13 Free Range
14 Going To Spain
15 The League Of Bald-Headed Men
16 Lost In Music

DISC FOUR
1993 11th October Batschkapp Frankfurt Germany
1 Intro Track
2 M5
3 Ladybird (Green Grass)
4 High Tension Line
5 Glam Racket
6 Why Are People Grudgeful?
7 I'm Going To Spain
8 Free Range
9 Behind The Counter
10 Strychnine
11 Big New Prinz
12 A Past Gone Mad
13 Lost In Music
14 Paranoia Man In Cheap Shit Room
15 Idiot Joy Showland
16 (Instrumental Interlude)
17 The Mixer
18 Dead Beat Descendant

DISC FIVE
Live At Liberty Lunch, Austin, Texas, 11th September 1993
1 Intro
2 M5 [aborted]
3 M5
4 Ladybird (Green Grass)
5 Paranoia Man In Cheap Shit Room
6 Lost In Music
7 Idiot Joy Showland
8 Big New Prinz
9 Free Range
10 I'm Going To Spain

DISC SIX
Live At Liberty Lunch, Austin, Texas, 11th September 1993
1 Glam-Racket
2 Why Are People Grudgeful?
3 A Past Gone Mad
4 Strychnine
5 League Of Bald-Headed Men
6 Dead Beat Descendant
7 Return
8 The Mixer
9 High Tension Line

During the latter half of the 80s a new breed of guitar-orientated bands began to emerge in the UK - armed with an overt pop song craft sensibility, and enamoured with a conflicting post-punk spirit and adoration of the 60s, many of these unlikely acts – all anoraks, Dr Martens and charity shop chic – would go on to become Top 40 regulars and set the tone for music beyond these shores, culminating in ‘The Stone Roses’, an album that defined a generation.

‘Cut Me Deep’ – named for a Jasmine Minks track which captured that spirit – presents a snapshot of that time and place, via essential independent labels such as Creation, Sarah Records and 4AD, and their major backed counterparts in Blanco Y Negro et al, alongside distribution via Rough Trade and other like-minded outlets. With an electric guitar in hand (no Stratocasters here please), and resplendent in clothes as immaculately and cheaply curated as their record collections, a new generation of British musicians kickstarted what would become the only credible challenge to the increasingly dominant synthesiser pop scene of the late 1980s. Indeed, the entire movement might be understood as a reaction against that, and a return to the aesthetics of The Byrds and the universally adored Velvet Underground.

A must for the curious, and an essential addition for any collectors of our previous titles documenting the ‘80s British guitar pop scene, ‘Cut Me Deep’ chimes with familiar favourites, long lost curios, major hits and minor also rans, all of which share a pop minded commonality

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1:
1 Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Lost Weekend
2 Hurrah! - This Boy
3 Grab Grab The Haddock - Wan But Smiling
4 The Woodentops - It Will Come
5 Fantastic Something - The Night We Flew Out The Window
6 Del Amitri - The King Is Poor
7 The Dentists - I Had An Excellent Dream
8 Happy Mondays - Oasis
9 The Loft - Lonely Street
10 The Jesus & Mary Chain - Taste The Floor
11 Yeah Yeah Noh - The Short-Cut Way To Saturday
12 The Mighty Lemon Drops - Now She's Gone
13 Jamie Wednesday - I Think I'll Throw A Party For Myself
14 The Housemartins - Sheep
15 The Wedding Present - Once More
16 We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - Rules And Regulations (EP Version)
17 The Servants - She's Always Hiding (Single Version)
18 The Chesterf!elds - Love Mountain
19 The Beloved - A Hundred Words
20 The June Brides - This Town
21 That Petrol Emotion - Natural Kind Of Joy
22 Mighty Mighty - Everybody Knows The Monkey
23 The Razorcuts - I'll Still Be There
24 Bid - Reach For Your Gun’
25 Anthony Adverse - Eine Symphonie Des Grauens

Disc 2:
1 The Bodines - Heard It All
2 Band Of Holy Joy - Who Snatched The Baby
3 The Wise Acres - So Finally Sweet
4 The Weather Prophets - Naked As The Day You Were Born
5 The Stitched-Back Foot Airman - Some People
6 Shop Assistants - All That Ever Mattered
7 J.C. Brouchard With Biff Bang Pow! - Someone Stole My Wheels
8 Gol Gappas - West 14
9 St. Christopher - Charmelle
10 The Soup Dragons - Head Gone Astray
11 Pop Will Eat Itself - Runaround
12 The Primitives - Stop Killing Me
13 The King Of Luxembourg - A Picture Of Dorian Gray
14 The Brilliant Corners - Brian Rix
15 The Hit Parade - I Get So Sentimental
16 The Wolfhounds - Cruelty
17 The Flatmates - Happy All The Time
18 The Hepburns - The Bath House
19 The House Of Love - Flow
20 The Passmore Sisters - Every Child In Heaven
21 Talulah Gosh - Escalator Over The Hill
22 The Waltones - Closest To
23 Revolving Paint Dream - 7 Seconds
24 A House - Snowball Down

Disc 3:
1 The Sugarcubes - Birthday
2 Edwyn Collins - Don't Shilly Shally
3 The Heart Throbs - Make My Day
4 The Sea Urchins - Summershine
5 The Bachelor Pad - Jack And Julian
6 Mood Six - Flowers And Boxes
7 McCarthy - The Well Of Loneliness
8 The Wonder Stuff – Unbearable (Original Version)
9 Miaow - Break The Code
10 The La's - Endless
11 Yeah Jazz - The Girl The Years Were Kind To
12 One Thousand Violins - If I Were A Bullet (Then For Sure I'd Find A Way To Your Heart)
13 Blow Up - Pool Valley
14 Rosemary's Children - WW1
15 BMX Bandits - Figure 4
16 The Man From Delmonte - Water In My Eyes
17 King Of The Slums - England's Leading Light
18 The Orchids - Give Me Some Peppermint Freedom
19 The Lilac Time - Return To Yesterday (Original Version)
20 The Senseless Things - (All You've Got To Do Is) Stay Together
21 The Vaselines - Molly’s Lips
22 14 Iced Bears - Come Get Me
23 Cud - Under My Hat
24 The Groove Farm – The Big Black Plastic Explosion

Disc 4:
1 The Jasmine Minks - Cut Me Deep
2 The Darling Buds - It's All Up To You
3 Ambassador 277 - The Pop Up Man
4 The Pooh Sticks - 1-2-3 Red Light
5 Rote Kapelle - San Francisco Again
6 Benny Profane - Rob A Bank
7 The Golden Dawn - My Secret World
8 The Corn Dollies - Map Of The World
9 Inspiral Carpets - Butterfly
10 Bradford - Dodging Around In Cars
11 The Sundays - I Kicked A Boy
12 The Times - Heaven Sent Me An Angel
13 Treebound Story - Rain, Rain, Rain
14 The Popguns - Down On Your Knees
15 Another Sunny Day - What's Happened?
16 The Lightning Seeds - Pure
17 The Stone Roses - Mersey Paradise
18 The Telescopes - Sadness Pale
19 BOB - Convenience
20 The Claim - Wait And See
21 Milltown Brothers - We’ve Got Time
22 The Mock Turtles - The Willow Song
23 How Many Beans Make 5 - Let’s Get This Thing Finished
24 East Village - Back Between Places
25 Pale Saints - She Rides The Waves
26 Lush - Baby Talk

Fire Engines’ life as a band might have been over before it had barely begun, but the punk sired Edinburgh band’s short life blazed with incident and colour. ‘Boredom or Fire Engines – You Can’t Have Both’ went the legend. The small and imperfectly formed back catalogue they left in their wake sounded like they had crawled out of a cellar and come blinking into the inner-city light in a parallel universe somewhere between Leith Walk and CBGB’s. Boredom wasn’t an option.

Edinburgh’s incestuous inter-band family tree also included crossovers with The Flowers and Boots for Dancing, both of whom released singles on Bob Last and Hilary Morrison’s Pop: Aural label. Following the release of their debut single – ‘Get Up and Use Me’ / ‘Everything’s Roses’ – on the Codex Communications imprint – Fire Engines too found a home with Last and Morrison’s post Fast Product label.

Now remastered from Bob Last’s original master tapes together with two accompanying John Peel Sessions, ‘Chrome Dawns’ is the definite Fire Engines artefact including the 7” inch – ‘Candyskin’ / ‘Meat Whiplash’ – now regarded as a classic; the mini album – Lubricate Your Living Room – as a wilfully perverse objet d’art; and the 12” – ‘Big Gold Dream’ – best remembered by some for its sleeve. Despite such limited output, Fire Engines had a rich history the brevity of their lifespan doesn’t do justice.

STAFF COMMENTS

Laura says: Edinburgh’s scratchy, angular, post-punk pioneers’ flame burned briefly but brightly between 1979 and 1981, and left an indelible mark on Scotland’s music scene. This collection compiles all their recorded output for Codex Communications / Pop:Aural - including the indie-pop gem “Candyskin” of course, along with both of their Peel Sessions.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting
Side 1
1 Get Up And Use Me
2 Everything’s Roses
CODEX COMMUNICATIONS CDX 01, December 1980
3 Plastic Gift
4 Get Up And Use Me
5 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
6 Discord

Side 2
7 New Thing In Cartons
8 Hungry Beat
9 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt. 1
10 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt 2
11 Plastic Gift (Version)
Lubricate Your Living Room POP: AURAL AAC
001, January 1981
12 Candyskin
13 Meat Whiplash
POP: AURAL POP 010, May 1981

Side 3
1 Candyskin
2 (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
3 Untitled
4 Discord
JOHN PEEL SESSION
Recorded February 23rd 1981 / Broadcast
March 9th 1981
5 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
6 New Thing In Cartons

Side 4
7 Big Gold Dream (Unused Intro)
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
8 Big Gold Dream
POP: AURAL POP 013, December 1981
9 The Big Wrong Time
10 Qualitamatic
11 Young Tongues Need Taste
12 Produced To Seduce To
JOHN PEEL SESSION
Recorded November 14th 1981 / Broadcast
November 23rd 1981

CD Tracklisting
Disc 1
1 Get Up And Use Me
2 Everything’s Roses
CODEX COMMUNICATIONS CDX 01, December
1980
3 Plastic Gift
4 Get Up And Use Me
5 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
6 Discord
7 New Thing In Cartons
8 Hungry Beat
9 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt. 1
10 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt 2
11 Plastic Gift (Version)
Lubricate Your Living Room POP: AURAL AAC
001, January 1981
12 Candyskin
13 Meat Whiplash
POP: AURAL POP 010, May 1981
14 Candyskin
15 (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove
Thang
16 Untitled
17 Discord
JOHN PEEL SESSION
Recorded February 23rd 1981 / Broadcast
March 9th 1981
18 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
19 New Thing In Cartons
20 Big Gold Dream (Unused Intro)
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
21 Big Gold Dream
POP: AURAL POP 013, December 1981
22 The Big Wrong Time
23 Qualitamatic
24 Young Tongues Need Taste
25 Produced To Seduce To
JOHN PEEL SESSION
Recorded November 14th 1981 / Broadcast
November 23rd 1981

Disc 2
1 The Untitled One
2 Insert Yourself
3 Discord
LEITH COMMUNITY CENTRE, March 16th 1980
4 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
5 Get Up And Use Me
6 Hungry Beat
7 Everything’s Roses
8 The Untitled One
WILF SMARTIES LIVE SESSION, August 2nd 1980
9 Get Up And Use Me
10 Discord
11 Hungry Beat
12 Everything’s Roses
13 Get Up And Use Me (Reprise)
WHY DOES THE POPE NOT COME TO
GLASGOW?
EDINBURGH FRINGE, August 18th-September
6th 1980
14 Produce To Seduce To
15 Get Up And Use Me
16 Hungry Beat
17 Plastic Gift
18 Discord
19 New Thing In Cartons
20 Coca Cola Cowboy
21 Meat Whiplash
22 Candyskin
EDINBURGH VALENTINO’S CLUB, August 9th
1981
23 Clip (Excerpt)
CC SOMERVILLE SHOW, January 12th 1981
24 Jacqueline
NEW! 000, December 2004

• Featuring well over 100 songs.

• The most detailed and definitive look at the career of cult hero Frank Sidebottom.

• With an introduction by former bandmate Mark Radcliffe and an exclusive interview with Chris (Frank) Sievey's son Stirling.

• As well as the interview, Stirling has also opened up the Sievey audio archive to provide 20 previously unreleased tracks of Frank performing at various gigs in Manchester from 1985-1988.

• The compilation also includes, for the first time on CD, 16 tracks from Frank's EPs for Regal Zonophone from 1985-1986.

Disc 1 contains 'Frank Sidebottom's ABC & D... The Best Of...', Cherry Red's first Frank collection, initially released in 1999.

Disc 2 contains 'E, F, G & H. The Best Of... Volume Two', Cherry Red's 2009 follow-up.

Disc 3 is made up of 36 tracks that have never been on CD before with 20 of those never having been released at all.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
'Frank Sidebottom's ABC & D... The Best Of...'
1. Anarchy In Timperley
2. Timperley Blues
3. Timperley Sunset
4. Born In Timperley
5. Surfin' Timperleya
6. Next Train To Timperley
7. Oh Timperley
8. Wild Thing In Timperley
9. The Robbins Aren't Bobbins
10. Guess Who's Been On Match Of The Day
11. Mexico '90
12. Estudiantes (Striped Shirts/ Black Panties)
13. Puff 'n' Blow
14. Hit The North
15. I Should Be So Lucky
16. Bohemian Rhapsody
17. Frank Gordon
18. Everybody Sings Queen
19. We Will Rock You
20. Radio Ga
21. I Am The Champion
22. Indie Medley
23. The Monopoly Song
24. Zoo Scrapbook
25. Xmas Is Really Fantastic
26. I Wish It Could Be Xmas Every Day
27. Oh Come All Ye Faithful
28. Xmas Medley
29. What For From Me Mum
30. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
31. Flying
32. Mull Of Timperley
33. It Was Nearly 20 Years Ago Today
34. Twist 'n' Shout
35. Blackpool Fool
36. Mr. Custard
37. Hey You Street Artist
38. The Wonder Of Me
39. Firm Favourite Ads
40. Mirror Man, Mirror Puppet / Gimmie That Harp Little Frank
41. Another Fantastic Banjo Song
42. Electricity

DISC TWO
'E, F, G & H. The Best Of... Volume Two'
1. Panic
2. Guess Who's Been On Match Of The Day
3. I Said Hey You Riot Policewoman
4. I Should Be So Lucky
5. Love Poem For Kylie
6. Franks World (Theme)
7. Mirrorman/Gimme That Harp Boy
8. Airplay
9. TVR17
10. Barber's Shop Quartet
11. Electricity
12. Fantastic Sea Shanty
13. Firm Favourite Ads
14. Of Puppets And Space And Decimal Currency
15. I've Got Something To Shout About
16. Mr Custard
17. Tex Sidebottom
18. I Said Hey You Street Artist
19. Radio Timperley Phone-In
20. Bohemian Rhapsody (The Bit I Missed Off My First EP)
21. Bros Medley
22. S.O.S.
23. Timperley Travelogue
24. Save Me
25. Tummy
26. Can't Help Falling In Love
27. Monopoly Song
28. Football Is Really Fantastic
29. Guess Who's Been On Match Of The Day [Live]
30. 1812 Overture
31. God Save The Queen

DISC THREE
Bonus Tracks
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD
1. Anarchy In The U.K.
2. Material Boy
3. Every Breath You Take
4. Popular Medley
5. Oh Blimey It’s Christmas
6. Christmas In Australia
7. Old Lang Zine
8. In The Summertime
9. Oh Supermum
10. I’m The Urban Spaceman
11. Sci-Fi Medley
12. Space Is Ace
13. Roger Robot
14. Fireball XL5
15. Life On Mars
16. The Theme Tune From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
17. Magic Trick (Manchester 22/03/1985)
18. Séance And Little Frank (22/03/1985)
19. Love Missile (22/03/1985)
20. We Love You (22/03/1985)
21. No Train To Brooklands (Manchester 27/02/1988)
22. Fireball XL5 (27/02/1988)
23. Space Is Ace (27/02/1988)
24. Hey Jude (27/02/1988)
25. Timperley 969 1909 (27/02/1988)
26. Little Frank (28/05/1988)
27. Caravan Of Love (28/05/1988)
28. Spider Puppet (28/05/1988)
29. Talking Parrot (28/05/1988)
30. The Ginger Baker Book Of Jokes (28/05/1988)
31. Spanish Harlem (28/05/1988)
32. Jailhouse Rock(28/05/1988)
33. Elvis Is Really Fantastic (28/05/1988)
34. Barbara Ann (28/05/1988)
35. Hound Dog (28/05/1988)
36. We’re Gonna To Write Some Invitations (29/09/1988)

Formed in 1986 by siblings Alison and Jim Shaw, Cranes remain one of the most distinctive bands of the late 1980s and 1990s, their ever-mutating sound defying categorisation and existing outside of the zeitgeist. Their recorded output during their initial ten-year incarnation is collected together here for the first time, from the raw 1989 mini album ‘Self-Non-Self’ (originally released on Bite Back!) through to the sophisticated 1997 epic ‘Population Four’.

Curated and overseen by singer Alison Shaw on behalf of the band, and resplendent in artwork by 4AD legend Chris Bigg (with detailed liner notes and discographic information), ‘Collected Works Vol 1’ serves as timely reminder of Cranes’ magnificence as they evolved from stark, noisy soundscapes to bolder, more elaborate instrumentation and arrangements. With hints of ethereal rock, dream pop, shoegaze, industrial and neo- classical, theirs was a sound truly like no other.

A must for fans and a perfect all-in-one deep dive for the curious, ‘Collected Works Vol 1’ is an emotionally charged time capsule showcasing one of the finest bands of the 1990s. A recently revived Cranes continue to perform with more unmissable gigs scheduled for 2024.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
Self-Non-Self +
1 One From The Slum
2 Joy Lies Within
3 Heaven Or Bliss
4 Beach Mover
5 Focus Breathe
6 Fuse
Bonus Tracks
7 Reach (Live)
8 Nothing In The Middle, Nothing At The End
9 Cha Cha Escueta
10 Self-Non-Self

DISC TWO
Wings Of Joy +
1 Watersong
2 Thursday
3 Living And Breathing
4 Leaves Of Summer
5 Starblood
6 Sixth Of May
7 Wish
8 Tomorrow’s Tears
9 Beautiful Sadness
10 Hopes Are High
11 Adoration
Bonus Tracks
12 Inescapable
13 Give
14 Dada 331
15 Inescapable II
16 I Hope
17 E.G. Shining
18 Brighter
19 Casa Blanca
20 Dreamless
21 Starblood (Remix)

DISC THREE
Forever +
1 Everywhere
2 Cloudless
3 Jewel
4 Far Away
5 Adrift
6 Clear
7 Sun And Sky
8 And Ever
9 Golden
10 Rainbows
Bonus Tracks
11 Underwater
12 Leave Her To Heaven (I)
13 At Sea
13 Slide
15 Leave Her To Heaven (II)
16 Jewel (Robert Smith Mix)
17 Clear (Boll Weevil Mix)
18 Cloudless (Thaïs Mix)

DISC FOUR
Loved +
1 Shining Road
2 Pale Blue Sky
3 Reverie
4 Lilies
5 Are You Gone?
6 Loved
7 Beautiful Friend
8 Bewildered
9 Come This Far
10 Paris And Rome
11 In The Night
Bonus Tracks
12 September
13 Lilies (Flood Mix)
14 Don’t Close Your Eyes
15 Paris And Rome (Flood Mix)
16 Green Song 7
17 Shining Road (Brauer Mix)
18 Organ Song

DISC FIVE
Population Four +
1 Tangled Up
2 Fourteen
3 Breeze
4 Can’t Get Free
5 Stalk
6 Sweet Unknown
7 Angel Bell
8 On Top Of The World
9 Brazil
10 Let Go
11 To Be
Bonus Tracks
12 Wild Yellow Bloom
13 Perfect World
14 Lemon Tree
15 Trumpet Song
16 Pier Scene From Scarborough Ahoy!

DISC SIX
La Tragédie D'Oreste Et Électre
1 Comme Je Suis Libre
2 Oreste Et Électre
3 La Cérémonie
4 Danse D'Électre
5 Le Palais
6 Au Temple
7 Danse Des Érinnyes

As the post-punk dust began to settle, a particular strand of artist began applying a knowingly distant, colder aesthetic to their work. While much of the scene began to be dominated by bigger budget, commercially minded former punk and new wave acts, a darker undercurrent did survive, often more interesting, more dangerous and sexier than anything that could be heard on Top Of The Pops at the time. The first generation of the darkwave movement consisted of bands that were equally influenced by the fractured drama of Depeche Mode, Siouxsie & the Banshees and The Cure as they were by the art damaged experimentation of Cabaret Voltaire, Wire and Throbbing Gristle, always rich in Gothic spirt, societal displacement, urban isolation and sexual energy.

‘No Songs Tomorrow’ collects together the true progenitors and risk takers of this Venn diagram scene, each of whom set forth in uncharted territory in the post-punk minefield, expressing parts of themselves others dare not in the truest and darkest of fashions. From familiar names to underground gems and collectables, and painting with a broad international palette, this might be considered a companion piece to several of our previous offerings, ‘Silhouettes And Statues’, ‘Close to The Noise Floor’, ‘Still In A Dream’ and ‘Cherry Stars Collide’ among them. We recommend late night listening, either home alone or dripping with sweat on a rotting dancefloor.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 The Cure - The Funeral Party
2 Babel 17 - Come Into Hell And Murder Hate
3 Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Within These Walls (2023 Stereo Mix)
4 Days Of Sorrow - Wild World
5 Cocteau Twins - Blood Bitch
6 Lars Falk - See My Friend Fall
7 Rise And Fall Of A Decade - Nothing To Say, Easy To Answer
8 Dead Can Dance - Avatar
9 Executive Slacks - Say It Isn't So
10 In The Nursery - Lost Prayer
11 Psyche - The Crawler
12 Kas Product - Tina Town
13 Eleven Pond – Tear And Cinnamon
14 Requiem In White - A Prodigal Son

DISC TWO
1 U.V. Pøp - No Songs Tomorrow (Album Version)
2 Soft Cell - Heat
3 Lowlife - From Side To Side
4 Parade Ground - Moans
5 Cranes - Focus Breathe
6 Lycia - From Foam
7 Sad Lovers And Giants - Return To Clocktower Lodge
8 Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop
9 Fra Lippo Lippi - Now And Forever
10 The Essence - Only For You
11 Mittageisen - Automaten (Radio Edit)
12 Beautiful  Pea Green Boat - The Screw
13 Autumnfair - Novy Mir
14 Minimal Compact - My Will
15 Cuddly Toys - Pierrot Lunaire (Malice Pt 2)

DISC THREE
1 Clan Of Xymox - Louise (7'' Version)
2 Iron Curtain - The Condos
3 Neon - Dark Age (12'' Mix)
4 Die Form - Poupée Mécanique
5 Kirlian Camera - Blue Room
6 Danse Society - Danse/Move
7 SS-Say - Care
8 For Against - Amen Yves
9 Heavenly Bodies - Rains On Me
10 Invisible Limits - Demand For Supply
11 Xmal Deutschland - Sickle Moon
12 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Hand On Heart
13 Little Nemo - City Lights (Long Way)
14 Royal Family & The Poor - Discipline
15 Bushido - High Rise
16 Mankind's Audio Development - Craving

DISC FOUR
1 Attrition - The Last Refuge
2 Two - Picture Frame
3 Soul - Love
4 Alien Sex Fiend - In And Out Of My Mind
5 Museum Of Devotion - Gauge Field
6 Malaria! - You You
7 No More - Suicide Commando
8 Twice A Man - Decay
9 Collection D'Arnell-Andréa - A L'Aurore Assassine
10 The Vyllies - Give Me A Name
11 Bel Canto - Dewy Fields
12 The Arms Of Someone New - Every Seventh Wave
13 Single Gun Theory - Exorcise This Wasteland
14 Tones On Tail - Performance (7'' Version)
15 Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook - Clouds

The Fall’s first studio album, reissued on black vinyl in its 45th Anniversary year. This black vinyl version is 180GSM with an inner bag and features the US artwork and track-listing.

Founded by its only constant member, Mark E. Smith, The Fall formed in Manchester in 1976 and were one of the most prominent post-punk groups in the world. Musically, there may have been several stylistic changes over the years, but it was often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, always underpinned by Smith’s distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.

“They are always different; they are always the same.” JOHN PEEL

“Live At The Witch Trials” is the debut studio album – released 16th March 1979 – these editions celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this seminal album. Originally released through record label Step-Forward, it was recorded in a single day and mixed by producer Bob Sargeant. Mark E. Smith’s lyrics include his unique commentary on the music business (‘Music Scene’), poorly paid jobs (‘Industrial Estate’) and drugs (‘No Xmas For John Quays’, ‘Like To Blow’, ‘Frightened’, ‘Underground Medecin’)

Sounds gave it five stars at the time of release, writing: “an album of staggeringly rich, mature music, inner questioning hand in hand with rock and roll at its fiercest, its finest, its most honest, rock and roll at its naked, most stimulating”

Featuring the one and only Mark E. Smith alongside Martin Bramah, Marc Riley, Karl Burns and Yvonne Pawlett.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE
1. FRIGHTENED
2. CRAP RAP 2/LIKE TO BLOW
3. REBELLIOUS JUKEBOX
4. NO XMAS FOR JOHN QUAYS
5. VARIOUS TIMES

SIDE TWO
1. UNDERGROUND MEDECIN
2. TWO STEPS BACK
3. LIVE AT THE WITCH TRIALS
4. FUTURES AND PASTS
5. MUSIC SCENE

Originally recorded at Lisa Stansfield's Gracieland Studios in between December 2002 and January 2003 with producer Grant Showbiz.

The subtitle is explained by the fact that the tracks were originally scheduled for release in April 2003 under the title ‘Country on the Click’. Promotional copies were sent out and three of the new songs were previewed in the band's 23rd Peel Session, but Mark. E Smith was unhappy with the mix and decided it needed further work.

Alex Linhardt of Pitchfork called it "as valuable an album as anything The Fall ever released in the 1990s" and stated that "Smith's lyrics are at a near career-best of insolence and nonsense.” AllMusic's David Jeffries wrote that the album "gives the faithful another reason to believe". Helen Pidd, reviewing the album for The Guardian, viewed Smith as being "on magnificently mad form”. Uncut called it "Great by Smith’s standards. Practically genius by everybody else’s.” Spin praised it as "an atavistic orgy of recycled riffs and lifelong obsessions". MOJO reviewed it as "as good as anything in this group's monstrous catalogue”. Pop Matters called it "their best record in a decade”.

This Set as with the other Fall reissues has been compiled in conjunction with Fall expert Conway Patton and has notes by Fall guru Daryl Easlea and was mastered by long time engineer Andy Pearce with art by Becky Stewart.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklisting:
Side 1:
1 Green Eyed Locomotion
2 Mountain Energi
3 Theme From Sparta FC
4 Contraflow
5 Last Commands OF Xyralothep Via MES
6 Janet, Johnny And James
Side 2:
1 The Past #2
2 Open The Boxoctosis #2
3 Loop 41 ‘Houston
4 Mike’s Love Xexagon
5 Proteinprotection
6 Recovery Kit

CD Box Set:
DISC ONE 
The Real New Fall LP Formerly 'Country On The Click'
1 Green Eyed Loco-Man
2 Mountain Energei
3 Theme From Sparta F.C.
4 Contraflow
5 Last Commands Of Xyralothep Via M.E.S.
6 Open The Boxoctosis #2
7 Janet, Johnny + James
8 The Past #2
9 Loop41 `Houston
10 Mike's Love Xexagon
11 Proteinprotection
12 Recovery Kit

DISC TWO:
Country On The Click (Original Version)
1 Sparta
2 Protein Protection
3 Mountain Energei
4 Contraflow
5 Green Eyed
6 Boxoctosis
7 Ho(E)uston
8 The Past
9 Recovery Kit
10 Mike's Love Xexagon
11 Susan V Youthclub

DISC THREE:
Interim
1 All Clasp Hands
2 Blindness
3 What About Us?
4 I'm Ronney The Oney
5 Green-Eyed Snorkel
6 Mod Mock Goth
7 Wrong Place
8 Sparta FC No:3
9 Mere Pseud Mag Ed
10 Spoilt Victorian Childe
11 Boxoctosis Alarum

DISC FOUR:
Singles / Sessions
1 Susan Vs Youthclub - Single
2 Janet Vs Johnny - B-Side
3 Susan Vs Youthclub - Remix
4 (We Wish You A) Protein Christmas - Single
5 (We Are) Mod Mock Goth - Single
6 (Birtwistle's) Girl In Shop - Single
7 Recovery Kit 2 # - Single
8 (We Are) Mod Mock Goth - US Album Edit
9 Theme From Sparta F.C. #2 - Single
10 My Ex-Classmate’s Kids (Live Cologne 2001) - B-Side
11 Portugal (aka Debacle (For The Record)) - B-Side
12 Theme From Sparta F.C. - Peel Session
13 Contraflow - Peel Session
14 Grooving With Mr Bloe / Green-Eyed Loco Man - Peel Session
15 Mere Pseud Mag Ed. - Peel Session

DISC FIVE:
Live At The Knitting Factory - New
York - 9 April 2004
1 Horror In Clay
2 Boxoctosis
3 Contraflow
4 Middle Mass
5 Mere Pseud Mag Ed
6 Mountain Energei
7 I Can Hear The Grass Grow
8 Telephone Thing
9 Theme From Sparta F.C.
10 Janet, Johnny And James
11 Groovin' With Mr Bloe / Green Eyed Loco Man
12 Walk Like A Man
13 Mr Pharmacist
14 Mike's Love Xexagon / We Are Mod Mock Goth
15 I Am Damo Suzuki
16 Dr Buck's Letter
17 Loop 41

• Vinyl-only compilation celebrating the birth of independent Punk Rock in the UK!

• Includes some of the scene’s key names – Alternative TV, U.K. Subs, 999, The Ruts, The Rezillos, The Boys, Angelic Upstarts, The Fall – alongside landmark collectable 45s by bands like Puncture, ‘O’ Level, The Wasps and The Rowdies.

• Limited edition of 1,000 copies!

When punk arrived in late 1976, the scene acted as a catalyst for an explosion of independent labels which swiftly sprung up around the UK. Named after a classic track by Manchester’s The Drones, ‘Just Want To Be Myself’ boasts classic sevens on imprints such as Small Wonder, The Label, Rough Trade, Dining Out, Deptford Fun City and Cherry Red (all London), Zoom (Glasgow), Attrix (Brighton), Heartbeat (Bristol), Good Vibrations (Belfast) and Bent (Manchester).

Many of the individuals and bands featured would later enjoy success in various incarnations – for example, The Pack mutated into Theature Of Hate, The Outsiders’ Adrian Borland attracted acclaim with his band The Sound, ‘O’ Level’s Edward Ball made an impact with various acts including The Times and Leyton Buzzards evolved into pop combo Modern Romance!

Pure Hell and The Electric Chairs’ Wayne County were American but eligible here because the tracks were recorded in the UK.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Eater Outside View
2. The Boys First Time (alternative Version)
3. The Rezillos I Can’t Stand My Baby
4. The Valves Robot Love
5. Puncture Mucky Pup
6. The Zeros Hungry
7. The Outsiders One To Infinity
8. The Electric Chairs On The Crest
Side 2
1. The Drones Just Want To Be Myself (lp Version)
2. Maniacs Chelsea 77
3. ‘o’ Level Pseudo Punk
4. The Carpettes Radio Wunderbar
5. The Wasps Teenage Treats
6. V2 Speed Freak
7. Social Security I Don't Want My Heart To Rule My Head
8. Patrik Fitzgerald Safety-pin Stuck Inmy Heart
Side 3
1. Angelic Upstarts The Murder Of Liddle Towers
2. Alternative Tv Action Time Vision
3. The Tights Bad Hearts
4. Leyton Buzzards 19 And Mad
5. The Rowdies A.c.a.b.
6. The Outcasts Just Another Teenage Rebel
7. U.k. Subs C.i.d.
8. The Fall Psycho Mafia
Side 4
1. The Ruts In A Rut
2. The Piranhas Jilly
3. Cockney Rejects Flares ‘n’ Slippers
4. Pure Hell These Boots Are Made For Walking
5. The Pack King Of Kings
6. 999 Found Out Too Late
7. The Adicts Easy Way Out
8. Spizzenergi Where's Captain Kirk?

The Fall’s second studio album, re-issued here for The Fall Sound Archive on black 12" vinyl.

Founded by its only constant member, Mark E. Smith, The Fall formed in Manchester in 1976 and were one of the most prominent post-punk groups in the world. Musically, there may have been several stylistic changes over the years, but it was often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, always underpinned by Smith’s distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.

“They are always different; they are always the same…” John Peel.

‘Dragnet’ is the second studio album – released 26th October 1979, originally released through record label Step-Forward, it predicated two major factors in the group’s career – high productivity and high group turnover.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE
1. PSYKICK DANCEHALL
2. A FIGURE WALKS
3. PRINTHEAD
4. DICE MAN
5. BEFORE THE MOON FALLS
6. YOUR HEART OUT
SIDE TWO
1. MUZOREWI’S DAUGHTER
2. FLAT OF ANGLES
3. CHOC-STOCK
4. SPECTRE VS. RECTOR
5. PUT AWAY

• 4 CD box set celebrating the Madchester/baggy scene and the indie dance crossover.

• Featuring The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, The Charlatans and more.

• With tracks presented in their extended mixes as played at clubs such as The Hacienda.

As the Berlin Wall came down and a new decade beckoned, indie and dance collided and bands like The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets and The Charlatans spearheaded a new music movement dubbed ‘baggy’ or ‘Madchester’. While the focus was on Manchester, it was an explosion that stretched from the Glasgow area with The Soup Dragons and Primal Scream to Liverpool with The Farm, Leeds with the Bridewell Taxis and Flowered Up in London.

The ‘Madchester’ sound incorporated elements of 60s psychedelia, 80s indie, 70s funk and contemporary house and hip hop; 808 State were an electronic dance act, The Stone Roses, a guitar band with a funky rhythm section, Inspiral Carpets used a Farfisa organ associated with 1960s garage punk and Happy Mondays played a truly unique blend of indie funk.

The Hacienda night club in Manchester co-owned by New Order was a catalyst and cultural centre for this music explosion, having played US house music from 1987. Another influence was the increasing availability of MDMA in the city.

Remixes were an important part of the indie dance crossover scene and 12” remixes here include Paul Oakenfold ’s pioneering ‘Think About The Future Mix’ of Happy Mondays’ ‘W.F.L.’, Terry Farley’s mixes of Primal Scream’s ‘Come Together’ and The Soup Dragons’ ‘I’m Free’ and Andy Weatherall’s reconstruction of James’ ‘Come Home’.

Also included are other indie bands who embraced dance music after discovering sampling and the new music technology including Aberdeen’s The Shamen who’d started out as a psychedelic guitar band before evolving into a dance act and Stourbridge’s self-styled grebos, Pop Will Eat Itself whose music metamorphosised from pop punk into a hybrid of rock, hip hop and dance.

Hits include The Stone Roses ‘Fool’s Gold’ (UK #9) and Happy Mondays ‘Step On’ (UK #5) plus there’s dancefloor favourites such as The Charlatans’ debut Hammond groove ‘Indian Rope’ and rarities including the excellent but forgotten ‘Perfect Person’ by Sinister Groove.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE:
1 Happy Mondays - W.F.L. ‘Think About The Future’ Mix (The Paul Oakenfold Mix)
2 Inspiral Carpets – Joe
3 808 State – Pacific State – Origin (12” Version)
4 James - Come Home (Weatherall Remix A.k.a. Skunk Weed Skank Mix)
5 The Farm - Stepping Stone (12” Ghost Dance Mix)
6 Hypnotone – Dream Beam (Ben Chapman Remix)
7 New Fast Automatic Daffodils – Big (Baka)
8 Paris Angels – All On You (Perfume) (12” Version)
9 The Bridewell Taxis – Spirit (LFO Decision Remix)
10 Electronic – Get The Message (DNA Groove Mix)
Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea (12” Original Mix AKA Dali Mix)
11 The Beloved – The Sun Rising (Danny’s Love Is… Remix)
12 The Times – Manchester (Single Version)
13 Candy Flip – Strawberry Fields Forever (Raspberry Ripple Remix)

DISC TWO:
1 The Stone Roses – Fools Gold 9.53
2 The Charlatans – Indian Rope
3 Moonflowers – Get Higher (Rather Large In The Bristol Area Mix)
4 Northside - Shall We Take A Trip (12” Version)
5 The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?
6 Spin – Scratches (In The Sand)
7 World Of Twist – She’s A Rainbow (12” Version)
8 Sinister Groove – Perfect Person
9 Spirea X – Re: Action
10 The Candy Skins – For What It’s Worth
11 Honey Smugglers – You Are The Sun
12 Airhead – Counting Sheep
13 The Telescopes – Celeste
14 The Hollow Men – Thrilled
15 Spacemen 3 – Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here) (12” Version)

DISC THREE:
1 Primal Scream – Come Together (Terry Farley
Extended 12” Mix)
2 Flowered Up – It’s On
3 Saint Etienne – Kiss And Make Up (Midsummer Madness Mix)
4 Inspiral Carpets – Commercial Reign
5 The Shamen – Pro>Gen (Land Of Oz Mix)
6 Intastella – Century (12” Version)
7 Happy Mondays – Step On (Twisting My Melon Mix)
8 The Primitives – You Are The Way (Re-Ravishing Mix)
9 The Wendys – The Sun's Going To Shine For Me Soon
10 Chapterhouse – Pearl (12” Version)
11 Raintree County – Mad Dog
12 King Of The Slums - Bear Wiv Me (Flourescent Mix)
13 A Certain Ratio – Twenty Seven Forever (12” Version)

DISC FOUR:
1 The Soup Dragons - I’m Free (Terry Farley Boys Own Remix)
2 Stereo MC’s – Connected
3 Ruthless Rap Assassins – And It Wasn’t A Dream (Dare To Be Aware Mix)
4 MC Tunes Versus 808 State – Tunes Splits The Atom (Original Rap)
5 That Petrol Emotion – Tingle (Hard Boppin’ Mix)
6 Julian Cope – Love L.U.V. (Beautiful Love Remix)
7 Jesus Jones - Real Real Real (Rhythm 3 - Ben Chapman "Spaced" 12” Mix)
8 The Charlatans – Opportunity Three
9 The Dylans – Lemon Afternoon
10 Pop Will Eat Itself – X,Y And Zee (Electric Sunshine Style)
11 Stan – My Delight (Extended Mix)
12 Cud – Magic (Extended Farsley Mix)
13 Blow-Up – World (Long Version)
14 The Popguns – Crazy
15 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine – After The Watershed (Early Learning The Hard Way)

• 68 track 3CD box set celebrating the Leeds’ independent scene of the 1980s.

• Featuring Soft Cell, Sisters Of Mercy, Gang Of Four, The Wedding Present, Scritti Politti, The Mission, and many more.

• Including The Mekons, CUD, Delta 5, The Pale Saints, Girls At Our Best, Age Of Chance, The Bridewell Taxis who all stamped their mark on the indie charts and were regulars/favourites on John Peel’s radio show.

Like many Northern cities, Leeds enjoyed an explosion of music triggered by the big bang of punk rock in 1977. Indie labels sprung up to cater for a new wave of bands, who carved their own identity as the 80s dawned. ‘Where Were You’ is the first comprehensive anthology of Leeds’ independent music from that period, through to the end of the 1980s. From punk to goth, indie pop to industrial dancefloor, out-and-out pop to underground psychedelia, the four hours’ worth of recordings here are a celebration of the musical diversity emanating from the city’s studios and clubs.

Co-compiled by Benoit Farvak (Salvation) and Richard Rouska (Rouska Records), ‘Where Were You’ also boasts numerous obscurities which make their debut on CD – including many tracks taken from records now worth a small fortune on the collector’s scene. Overall, this is a fitting tribute to the legacy from one of the UK’s finest northern musical cities.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1. THE MEKONS Where Were You
2. ROUGE Have You Seen Gene
3. JERKS Cool
4. RATS AND DELICIOUS No Time
5. AGONY COLUMN (I Had It) All Worked Out
6. THE NEAT Hormones In Action (In My Heart)
7. GANG OF FOUR Damaged Goods (EMI Version)
8. SCRITTI POLITTI Messthetics
9. THE CITY LIMITS MorseCode Messages
10. EXPELAIRES Sympathy (Don't Be Taken In)
11. THE ALWOODLEY JETS Crash ‘N Burn
12. GIRLS AT OUR BEST Getting Nowhere Fast
13. SHAKE APPEAL My Own Way
14. DELTA 5 You
15. KNIFE EDGE Favourite Girl
16. MUSIC FOR PLEASURE The Human Factor
17. THE SQUARES Buddy Holly
18. MIRROR BOYS At Tiffanys
19. DANCE CHAPTER Anonymity
20. THE BOYS Let It Rain
21. SOFT CELL A Man Can Get Lost
22. ABRASIVE WHEELS Army Song
23. ICON A.D. Fight For Peace
24. THE EXPELLED Government Policy
25. THE UNDERDOGS East Of Dachau

DISC TWO 
1. THE SISTERS OF MERCY Temple Of Love
2. THE MARCH VIOLETS Religious As Hell
3. RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY Beating My Head
4. ANABAS Barricades
5. THE THREE JOHNS Do The Square Thing (7” Version)
6. VICIOUS PINK Cccan’t You See
7. TOM FAZZINI 16 Vessels
8. ANNIE HOGAN Executioners Song (Kickabye)
9. DÉJÀ VU Cut The Cross
10. FLOWERS FOR AGATHA Presentation
11. XERO SLINGSBY AND THE WORKS Hurricane Damage In Leeds (Live)
12. THE HOLLOW MEN Late Flowering Lust
13. ROSE OF AVALANCHE Goddess
14. THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX Moscow Idaho
15. SURFIN DAVE AND THE ABSENT LEGENDS Stateside Centre
16. AGE OF CHANCE I Don't Know And I Don't Care
17. THIRD CIRCLE Last Night Was The Best Night Of My Life
18. THE WEDDING PRESENT You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends
19. PINK PEG SLAX Boy From Leeds
20. DUSTDEVILS Seeds In The Spoil
21. THE MISSION Wasteland
22. SALVATION Thunderbird

DISC TTHREE
1. THE RHYTHM SISTERS Saturday Sunday Lazy Leeds Afternoons
2. RITZUN RATZUN ROTZER Noodleman
3. THE SINISTER CLEANERS Longing For Next Year
4. THE PROWLERS Life’s A Mystery
5. SON OF SAM Goodbye Junkie Jim…
6. LEN LIGGINS Life In Leeds City
7. GOOD SHEPHERDS Wallpaper Man
8. WMTID Go Big Red
9. MDMA Evidence
10. DRUG FREE AMERICA DayGlo Pussycat
11. THE VAYNES Lick The Dirt
12. BAZOOKA JOE Hiding From The Rentman
13. CUD I've Had It With Blondes
14. THE SNAPDRAGONS The Things You Want
15. GROOVIN’ WITH LUCY Lenny’s Lament
16. PURPLE ETERNAL Trip#67 (live)
17. BRIDEWELL TAXIS Wild Boar
18. GHOST DANCE Celebrate
19. PALE SAINTS Sight Of You
20. GOLD FRANKINCENSE & DISK DRIVE Character Assassinator
21. THE EDSEL AUCTIONEER Our New Skin

Emerging from Reading in the late 1980s, Chapterhouse burst onto the British music scene with 1990’s ‘Freefall’ EP and the critically acclaimed album ‘Whirlpool’. Impossible to categorise, the band were quickly embraced by both the music press and a global audience, and soon found themselves part of the emergent shoegaze scene alongside contemporaries such as Slowdive and Ride.

Curated by the band and overflowing with previously unheard material, ‘Chronology’ charts Chapterhouse’s progress through two brilliant albums, a number of classic singles and EPs, remixes by contemporaries such as Global Communication, Drum Club and Spooky, and their attempt to write and record an ultimately unrealised third album. Told through new interview material, previously unseen imagery and design overseen by the band themselves, this is the story of one of the most individual and enigmatic bands of their era, and one who continue to be cherished by both their original fanbase and a generation of new fans drawn to the shoegaze scene’s revival over the past decade.

Packaged in a hard slipcase box, complete with mini LP replica wallets and a 64 page booklet, and five years in the making, ‘Chronology’ is a definitive, in-depth set which will inspire nostalgia among fans of a certain age and creativity among those currently exploring similar sonic territory.

TRACK LISTING

Freefall, Sunburst & Whirlpool
1. Ecstasy Ii
2. Need (somebody)
3. Inside Of Me
4. Sixteen Years
5. Something More (sunburst)
6. Satin Safe
7. Rain
8. Feel The Same
9. Breather
10. Pearl
11. Autosleeper
12. Treasure
13. Falling Down
14. April
15. Guilt
16. If You Want Me
17. Something More

Pearl, Mesmerise And Courtyard Demos
1. Come Heaven
2. In My Arms
3. Mesmerise
4. Precious One
5. Summer Chill
6. Then We’ll Rise
7. For What It’s Worth (demo)
8. Confusion Trip (demo)*
9. Raised From Inside (demo)*
10. Get To Me (demo)*
11. Dream On (demo)
12. Never Enough (demo)*
13. In The Way (demo)*
14. If You Try (demo)*
15. Until You Try (demo)
16. Walk Water (demo)*

Blood Music And B-sides
1. Don’t Look Now
2. There’s Still Life
3. We Are The Beautiful
4. Summer’s Gone
5. Everytime
6. Deli
7. On The Way To Fly
8. She’s A Vision
9. Greater Power
10. Confusion Trip
11. Love Forever
12. Picnic (new Edit)
13. Age
14. Frost

Pentamerous Metamorphosis (blood Music Retranslated By Global Communication)
1. Alpha Phase
2. Beta Phase
3. Gamma Phase
4. Delta Phase
5. Epsilon Phase

Rarities And Remixes
1. Ecstasy I (demo)
2. Falling Down (freefall)
3. It Won’t Be Wrong
4. Losing Touch With My Mind
5. Die, Die, Die
6. Mesmerise (extended Remix)
7. Precious One (extended Remix)
8. We Are The Beautiful (spooky Extravaganja Mix)
9. We Are The Beautiful (spooky’s Ugly As Sin Mix New Edit)
10. Don’t Look Now (drum Club’s Sitar Trance Mix New Edit)
11. Montpellier Freeway*

Demos 1994-1995
1. Too Late (demo)*
2. Ocean Arms (acoustic Demo)*
3. Help Yourself (demo)*
4. More Than I Can Take (demo)
5. Let The Sunshine In (demo)*
6. Every Gift (demo)*
7. Feel (demo)
8. We Can Fly (demo)*
9. Another Life (demo)*
10. Medusa (demo)*
11. I Saw You (demo)*
12. Brighter (demo)
13. Make A Wish (demo)*
14. Zerodown (demo)*
15. Looking Back (demo)*
16. Crazy Kane (demo)

*previously Unreleased

• A 76 track celebration of all things Manchester from 1977 to 1981.

• A comprehensive look at the city’s sounds featuring Buzzcocks, Joy Division, New Order, The Fall, John Cooper Clark, Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, The Freshies, Slaughter & The Dogs, Magazine and many more.

• Includes tracks featuring many future stars of the Manchester music scene, such as Mick Hucknall (Simply Red), Martin Coogan (The Mock Turtles), Graham Massey (808 State), Mike Joyce (The Smiths) and Chris Sievey (Frank Sidebottom).

Back in 2017, Cherry Red unveiled a mammoth 7-CD compendium entitled ‘Manchester North Of England’, which attempted to document the city’s vibrant music scene from punk to Britpop. Six years on, ‘Keeping Control’ is the sequel, a modest triple-disc retrospective concentrating on music from the punk and post-punk years.

‘Keeping Control’ boasts the “name” bands out of Greater Manchester from that period, however, the underlying musical story of this box set lies with the lesser-known Manchester Musicians Collective. A catalyst for many musicians at the time, the MMC organised gigs, other activities and encouragement to the many and varied talents emerging in the region during punk and its aftershocks.

Louise Alderman, co-founder of the Manchester Musicians Collective, has written a foreword for the box set, which is named after the MMC’s short-lived fanzine. Via Louise’s band mate in Manchester Mekon, Frank Ewart, we also have a few previously unissued tracks by acts closely affiliated with the organization. At the time, the Collective was celebrated across two albums, ‘A Manchester Collection’ and ‘Unzipping The Abstract’ (both 1980) – and most of the artists from these releases are represented.

Beyond the MMC, Manchester enjoyed a thriving independent scene from 1977 onwards, inspired by Buzzcocks’ debut EP on New Hormones, Rabid, TJM, Object Music, Absurd, Bent and last but certainly not least Factory … each of them carved a different furrow. Outside of the gravitational pull of London, which exerted such a strong pull across the South of England, Manchester evolved its own unique identity, often mixing sharp humour with seemingly bleak, desolate-sounding music (reflecting the city’s hardship during that time).

STAFF COMMENTS

Darryl says: Following Cherry Red’s 2017 ‘Manchester North Of England’ 7CD box set, this trimmed down 3CD follow up concentrates on the punk/post-punk scenes. Across its 76 tracks ‘Keeping Control’ features Mancunian legends such as the Buzzcocks, Joy Division, New Order, The Fall, John Cooper Clark, Durutti Column, ACR, Magazine and many more.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 BUZZCOCKS Orgasm Addict
2 SLAUGHTER AND THE DOGS The Bitch
3 THE NOSEBLEEDS Fascist Pigs
4 THE DRONES City Drones
5 THE PANIK Murder
6 V2 Nothing To Do
7 JILTED JOHN Jilted John
8 GYRO Central Detention Centre
9 SALFORD JETS Lookin’ At The Squares
10 JOHN THE POSTMAN’S PUERILE Kawalski Of The Seaview Has Got The Best Hairstyle I’ve Ever Seen
11 ALBERTO Y LOST TRIOS PARANOIAS Fuck You
12 JOHN COOPER CLARKE I Don’t Want To Be Nice
13 THE TEARDROPS Pompous
14 PASSAGE Slit Machine
15 SPHERICAL OBJECTS Sweet Tooth
16 STEVE MIRO Smiling In Reverse
17 JOY DIVISION Digital
18 THE SMIRKS American Patriots
19 NOTSENSIBLES Lying On The Sofa
20 48 CHAIRS Psycle Sluts
21 EDDIE FICTION UFO Part 2
22 MELLOTRON Warriors From Space
23 SPEED She’s All There
24 GENOCIDE Renegade
25 SISTER RAY Suicide
26 EDDIE MOONEY & THE GRAVE I Bought Three Eggs
27 GERRY AND THE HOLOGRAMS

DISC TWO
1 THE FALL Flat Of Angles
2 STEROID KIDDIES Seaside Teaser
3 DIRECT HITS Back To The Sixties
4 FOREIGN PRESS Crossfire
5 CRISPY AMBULANCE Motorway Boys
6 I.Q. ZERO Insects
7 ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCS. We Want It Legalized
8 THE OUT Who Is Innocent?
9 GODS GIFT These Days
10 MUD HUTTERS Danger
11 PATHETIX Love In Decay
12 PRIVATE SECTOR Just Wanna Stay Free
13 THE FRANTIC ELEVATORS Hunchback Of Notre Dame
14 FAST CARS You’re So Funny
15 MISS KATE Ebony Eyes
16 GROW-UP The Best Thing
17 PROPERTY OF… Dance Like You’re Dead *
18 THE DISTRACTIONS Doesn’t Bother Me
19 THE DURUTTI COLUMN Sketch For Summer
20 BET LYNCH’S LEGS Riders In The Sky
21 THE HOAX Storm Trooper
22 MANICURED NOISE Metronome
23 MAGAZINE A Song From Under The Floorboards
24 VIBRANT THIGH Walking Away
25 ENIGMA Play With Fire
26 THE STILL 9.5
27 SPURTZ Boyfriends Or Your Money Back
28 THE CHARLIE PARKAS Space Invaders

DISC THREE
1 IF ONLY Puppet Masters
2 THE CHEATERS (I Wanna Be A) Policeman
3 MANCHESTER MEKON Must Have More Wheels
4 BATHROOM RENOVATIONS Apathetic Hell
5 THE LIGGERS Recorded Or Live *
6 SECTION 25 Knew Noise
7 THE DIAGRAM BROS. There Is No Shower
8 THE THINGS Pieces Of You
9 DISLOCATION DANCE Familiar View
10 MARTIN HANNETT The Music Room
11 BLUE ORCHIDS The Flood (Demo) *
12 KEVIN HEWICK Haystack
13 ELECTRA COMPLEX Magic *
14 HAMSTERS Animal
15 BITING TONGUES You Can Choke Like That
16 THE FRESHIES Wrap Up The Rockets
17 LUDUS Hugo Blanco
18 MOTHMEN Temptation
19 A CERTAIN RATIO Waterline
20 BEE VAMP Lucky Grills
21 NEW ORDER Everything’s Gone Green

Triple CD set collecting rare cuts and cult favourites from the worlds of psychedelic, pastoral and funky folk, 1968-1975.

Focusing on the outpouring of psychedelic folk flavours that emerged swiftly after the first psychedelic era.

Featuring some wonderful selections from long collectable acts such as Sunforest, Mellow Candle, Trees, Heron, Trader Horne, Christine Harwood and many more. 

Compiled by Richard Norris (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve/The Grid) , the compilation is themed around UK and Irish music from that hallowed period, and comes with a 7000 word essay and sleeve notes from the musician/producer.

Celebrating the collision of traditional folk with new psychedelic studio techniques, new and exotic textures, and a developing groove. It's a wide and broad range of styles, drawing from folk, its oral storytelling tradition, and also from jazz, beat, rhythm and blues, and the more mind opening sounds of psychedelia.

Housed in a 3 CD digipack, designed in a striking wraparound collage by Lyndon Pike .

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1. FAT MATTRESS Leafy Lane
2. KNOCKER JUNGLE Not Even A Letter
3. DUFFY POWER I Need You
4. MIKE HURST Face From The Past
5. RAY FENWICK I Wanna Stay Here
6. HARDIN AND YORK Natural Gas
7. OPEN ROAD Mother Earth
8. PAUL BRETT Motherless Child On A Merry-Go-Round
9. THE WOODS BAND Noisey Johnny
10. MEIC STEVENS Yorric
11. MARC ELLINGTON You Just Can’t Believe What You See
12. ALAN JAMES EASTWOOD Crystal Blue
13. ARRIVAL La Virra
14. DANDO SHAFT Cold Wind
15. LINDA HOYLE Hymn To Valerie Solanas
16. NIRVANA Nova Sketch
17. BRIAN DAVISON’S EVERY WHICH WAY Castle Sand
18. JADE WARRIOR Yellow Eyes
19. WRITING ON THE WALL Buffalo

DISC TWO
1. CHRIS HARWOOD Wooden Ships
2. BRIDGET ST. JOHN Fly High
3. DANDO SHAFT Rain
4. HERON Lord And Master
5. MELLOW CANDLE Silversong
6. TREES Murdoch
7. KEITH CHRISTMAS Foothills
8. TRADER HORNE Morning Way
9. MILLER ANDERSON Shadows ‘Cross My Wall
10. THE GHOST Time Is My Enemy
11. KEVIN COYNE Flowering Cherry
12. SECOND HAND Hangin’ On An Eyelid
13. FUCHSIA Shoes And Ships
14. MIKE HURST Place In The Country
15. AMBER Swan In The Evening
16. GLOBAL VILLAGE TRUCKING COMPANY The Inevitable Fate Of Ms Danya Sox
17. MIGHTY BABY Jug Of Love

DISC THREE
1. SUNFOREST Magician In The Mountain
2. CHRIS HARWOOD Crying To Be Heard
3. WIZZ JONES City Of The Angels
4. JADE WARRIOR Lady Of The Lake
5. KNOCKER JUNGLE Oh To Be Free
6. BRIDGET ST. JOHN Silver Coin
7. FRIENDS In The Morning
8. ALAN JAMES EASTWOOD Lotus Child
9. THE DEVIANTS Bun
10. JADE Amongst Anemones
11. PRINCIPAL EDWARDS MAGIC THEATRE The Death Of Don Quixote
12. YVONNE ELLIMAN Hawaii
13. THE OCCASIONAL WORD The Evil Venus Tree
14. IAN A. ANDERSON Goblets And Elms
15. BILL NELSON Rejoice
16. ZIOR Time Is The Reason
17. CURTIS KNIGHT WITH ZEUS New Horizon
18. LINDA LEWIS Reach For The Truth

The legendary Manchester punk band need little introduction. Back in 1977, they gave birth to a generation of independent labels with their debut EP ‘Spiral Scratch’. Thereafter, their melodic punk - pop proved irresistible, leading to hit singles and three landmark albums. They broke up in 1981 but reunited in 1989 and have been going steady ever since. Sadly, singer Pete Shelley passed away in 2018 but founder member and the band’s other singer/songwriter Steve Diggle has kept the flag flying. During the COVID pandemic, Steve and co. (Chris Remington on bass, Danny Farrant on drums) busied themselves with recording ‘Sonics In The Soul’. Recorded at Studio 7in London, the album was co-produced by Steve himself with Laurence Loveless.

TRACK LISTING

1 Senses Out Of Control
2 Manchester Rain
3 You’ve Changed Everything Now
4 Bad Dreams
5 Nothingless World
6 Don't Mess With My Brain
7 Just Got To Let It Go
8 Everything Is Wrong
9 Experimental Farm
10 Can You Hear Tomorrow
11 Venus Eyes

• Long awaited new album from The House Of Love .

• The sequel to 2013’s ‘She Paints Words In Red’, ‘A State Of Grace’ was written and recorded by the band’s lynchpin Guy Chadwick between COVID lockdowns.

• Following hot on the heels of the 8CD Box Set of The House Of Love’s Fontana recordings from the early 90s, ‘Burn Down The World'.

Guy says: “It is the best set of songs I have written for years and the pandemic ironically gave me the time and space to develop and arrange the songs.” The album was recorded with a new line - up, originally put together for an American 30th Anniversary to ur, now rescheduled for October. In the current line - up, Guy (lead vocals/guitar) is joined by Keith Osborne (lead guitar), Hugo Degenhardt (drums) and Harry Osborne (bass).

‘A State Of Grace’ is an eclectic collection of tracks, from the driving, grungy ‘Clouds’ to the eerie, atmospheric groove of ‘Sweet Loser’, the riffy powerful ballad ‘In My Mind’ and the folksy finale, ‘Just One More Song’. This is the first time the band’s recordings have featured instruments such as harp, pedal and lap steel guitar, banjo and violin, all adding to the unique guitar sounds we’ve come to know and love from The House of Love.

The album was recorded at Pett Sounds and mixed by Babe Rainbow ’s Warne Livesey . Keeping it in the family, a promo 16mm video has been filmed by Guy’s nephew and Godson, George Moore - Chadwick. 

TRACK LISTING

Sweet Loser
Light Of The Morning
Melody Rose
Clouds
Into The Laughter
Hey Babe
Sweet Water
Queen Of Song
In My Mind
A State Of Grace
Dice Are Rolling
Just One More Song

• RECORDED LIVE ON MTV’S 120 MINUTES , MARCH 7 TH 1993.
• THE CLASSIC, FAN - FAVOURITE SESSION, RE - MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL TAPES.
• FEATURING TRACKS FROM ACROSS THEIR CATALOGUE.
• NEVER BEFORE RELEASED! VINYL ONLY!

Captured at the height of their powers during the heyday of the grunge movement that they inspired, J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr perform tracks from their back catalogue live on MTV’s 120 Minutes show .

Loud and heavy as ever, the band turn in an inspired performance, which has since become a legendary favourite among fans.

Never officially released until now, and produced in association with MTV and the band, ‘Seventytwohundredseconds’ is the latest in our ongoing extensive exploration of Dinosaur Jr’s brilli ant Sire Records period. A must - hear glimpse of one of the treasures from the rich seam of American alternative rock and grunge artists who reinvigorated guitar - orientated music in the late 1980s and 1990s.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Severed Lips
2. Budge
3. Get Me
Side B
1. Thumb
2. Raisans

Lawrence escapes the contours of a bland city and retreats into his mind. Felt had risen from the underworld searching for a new horizon but only managed to slip into a desolate obscurity! Dark black slabs of creosote guitar – vast swathes of epic interplay – casting futuristic shadows – an idiosyncratic and unobtrusively brilliant band, the music Felt made on this album is unlike anything attempted before. This really is a template for an age yet to come.

During the ‘80s Felt made ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels. This beautifully produced series examines the work of one of the greatest underground groups of modern times.

Before the Stone Roses and after Be-Bop Deluxe and Plastic Ono Band, John Leckie worked with Felt. Booked into a metal/reggae studio in Birmingham’s industrial wasteland he sculpted a Michelangelo slice of new rock – exquisite and beautiful guitar odysseys – quite unlike anything the city had experienced before. Merging pop with a classical nuance Felt stood alone as the forerunners of a brand new style.

TRACK LISTING

Side One
1 Red Indians
2 The World Is As Soft As Lace
3 The Optimist And The Poet
Side Two
1 Mexican Bandits
2 The Stagnant Pool
3 A Preacher In New England

• Live extravaganza from post-punk “sonic cathedrals” (©The Independent), The Chameleons featuring live sets recorded in the ‘80s across two CDs and one DVD

• Featuring two live shows at The Hacienda and Camden Palace that have never been previously released on CD and an earlier set at the Gallery Club

• Plus a DVD featuring all three shows and an episode of Catalan TV programme Arsenal devoted to the band

Formed in Greater Manchester in 1981, The Chameleons pioneered post punk, combining Reg Smithies’ and Dave Fielding’s layered, shimmering guitars, drummer John Lever’s tribal rhythms and Mark Burgess’ driving bass and impassioned vocals with lyrics often reflecting the anxiety and alienation of the Thatcher era.

“All tribal percussion and jagged guitar shards straining to frame vast vistas with one hand while clutching their alienated urban roots with the other.” NME

The Chameleons are an acknowledged influence on future generations of indie and alternative rock bands including Stone Roses, Oasis, The Charlatans, Smashing Pumpkins, The Flaming Lips, The Killers, The Horrors, The National and Interpol.

‘Elevated Living’ includes their two celebrated hometown Manchester shows, ‘Live At The Gallery Club’ (1982) and ‘Live At The Hacienda’ (1983) and their superb show filmed for the ITV, ‘Live At The Camden Palace’ (1984) on both CD and DVD. The latter two shows are presented on CD for the first time.

The DVD also includes an episode of Catalan TV programme Arsenal devoted entirely to the band. Broadcast in January 1986, it mixes four tracks taken from a live show at the Discoteca 666 in Barcelona from 1985 (also on CD) plus studio performances and interviews with singer/bassist Mark Burgess and drummer John Lever.

The Gallery show includes rarities ‘Nathan’s Phase’ and ‘Things I Wished I’d Said’, while The Hacienda includes early versions of ‘A Person Isn’t Safe Anywhere These Days’ under the working title of ‘Men Of Steel’ and ‘Thursday’s Child’ as ‘Years Ago’.

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1:
LIVE AT THE GALLERY CLUB,
MANCHESTER, 18.12.82
1 PAPER TIGERS
2 NATHAN’S PHASE
3 DON’T FALL
4 PLEASURE & PAIN
5 HERE TODAY
6 IN SHREDS
7 UP THE DOWN ESCALATOR
8 SECOND SKIN
9 MONKEYLAND
10 AS HIGH AS YOU CAN GO
11 THINGS I WISH I’D SAID
12 VIEW FROM A HILL
LIVE AT THE HACIENDA,
MANCHESTER, 28.1.83
13 PAPER TIGERS
14 PLEASURE & PAIN
15 MEN OF STEEL
16 YEARS AGO
17 IN SHREDS
18 DON’T FALL
19 SECOND SKIN

DISC 2:
LIVE AT THE CAMDEN PALACE,
LONDON 9.11.84
1 DON’T FALL
2 INTRIGUE IN TANGIERS
3 MONKEYLAND
4 SECOND SKIN
5 SINGING RULE BRITANNIA
(WHILE THE WALLS CLOSE IN)
6 PLEASURE & PAIN
7 RETURN OF THE
ROUGHNECKS
8 A PERSON ISN’T SAFE
ANYWHERE THESE DAYS
9 IN SHREDS
10 SPLITTING IN TWO
11 HERE TODAY
12 THURSDAY’S CHILD
13 PAPER TIGERS
ARSENAL: LIVE AT DISCOTECA
666, BARCELONA 7.6.85
14 HERE TODAY
15 RETURN OF THE ROUGHNECKS
16 LESS THAN HUMAN
17 SPLITTING IN TWO

DISC 3:
DVD: LIVE AT THE GALLERY CLUB, MANCHESTER, 18.12.82 TRACKLISTING AS DISC ONE
LIVE AT THE HACIENDA, MANCHESTER, 28.1.83 TRACKLISTING AS DISC ONE
LIVE AT THE CAMDEN PALACE, LONDON, 9.11.84 TRACKLISTING AS DISC TWO

ARSENAL: (SPANISH TV) 1985
1 DON’T FALL
2 SINGING RULE BRITANNIA
(WHILE THE WALLS CLOSE IN)
3 HERE TODAY
4 RETURN OF THE ROUGHNECKS
5 MONKEYLAND
6 LESS THAN HUMAN
7 PLEASURE & PAIN
8 SECOND SKIN
9 HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
10 IN SHREDS
11 SPLITTING IN TWO
NTSC DVD Visual Content.
FSK - 0

Are You Are Missing Winner is the twenty-second album by British post-punk band the Fall, released in November 2001. Since the band’s last record Mark E Smith had replaced the entire line up. The album was recorded very quickly and very much on the cheap and band member Ben Pritchard described it as a very miserable experience. The influence of Rockabilly is very much seen throughout the album and saw them covering Lead Belly's ‘The Bourgeois Blues’.

 As with the other Fall reissues these have notes by Fall guru Daryl Easlea and have been mastered by long time engineer Andy Pearce.

This is the latest release in Cherry Red’s series of deluxe Fall reissues – “Fall Sound Archive”

TRACK LISTING

VINYL TRACKLISTING:
SIDE ONE
1. JIM'S "THE FALL”
2. BOURGEOIS TOWN
3. CROP DUST
4. MY EX-CLASSMATES' KIDS
5. KICK THE CAN
6. GOTTA SEE JANE
SIDE TWO
1. IBIS-AFRO MAN
2. THE ACUTE
3. HOLLOW MIND
4. REPRISE: JANE – PROF MICK – EY BASTARDO
SIDE THREE
1. RUDE (ALL THE TIME)
2. I WAKE UP IN THE CITY
3. NEW FORMATION SERMON
SIDE FOUR
1. DISTILLED MUG ART
2. MY EX-CLASSMATES' KIDS (LIVE IN
COLOGNE 23RD OCTOBER 2001)
3. WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' TAXI? CUNT
BONUS TRACK (2006)
4. ARE YOU MISSING WINNER

CD TRACKLISTING:
DISC 1:
ORIGINAL ALBUM
1. JIM'S "THE FALL”
2. BOURGEOIS TOWN
3. CROP DUST
4. MY EX-CLASSMATES' KIDS
5. KICK THE CAN
6. GOTTA SEE JANE
7. IBIS-AFRO MAN
8. THE ACUTE
9. HOLLOW MIND
10. REPRISE: JANE – PROF MICK – EY BASTARDO
BONUS TRACKS
11. RUDE (ALL THE TIME)
12.I WAKE UP IN THE CITY
13.NEW FORMATION SERMON
14.DISTILLED MUG ART
15. MY EX-CLASSMATES' KIDS (LIVE IN COLOGNE 23RD OCTOBER 2001)
16. WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' TAXI? CUNT

DISC 2:
LIVE AT THE KNITTING FACTORY
LA, 14th NOVEMBER 2001
1. THE JOKE
2. CYBER INSEKT
3. AND THEREIN
4. BOURGEOIS TOWN
5. CROPDUST
6. KICK THE CAN - F'OLDIN MONEY - KICK THE CAN PT 2
7. MR PHARMACIST
8. JIM'S THE FALL
9. ANTIDOTES
10. WAY ROUND / DR BUCKS LETTER

DISC 3:
LIVE AT THE GARAGE
LONDON, 20th APRIL 2002
1. TO NK ROACHMENT: YARBLES / THE JOKE
2. CYBER INSEKT
3. AND THEREIN
4. ANTIDOTES
5. KICK THE CAN / F'OLDIN MONEY / KICK THE CAN
6. BOURGEOIS TOWN
7. MR PHARMACIST
8. ENIGRAMMATIC DREAM / KETAMINE SUN
9. I WAKE UP IN THE CITY / MY EX-CLASSMATES KIDS
10. WAY ROUND

DISC 4:
LIVE AT THE ATP FESTIVAL
28th APRIL 2002
1. TO NK ROACHMENT: YARBLES / THE JOKE
2. 2 LIBRANS
3. THE JOKE
4. AND THEREIN
5. CYBER INSEKT
6. I WAKE UP IN THE CITY / MY EX-CLASSMATES KIDS
7. KICK THE CAN / F'OLDIN MONEY / KICK THE CAN
8. BOURGEOIS TOWN
9. MR PHARMACIST
10. SHAKE OFF - ENIGRAMATIC DREAM - KETAMINE SUN
11. WAY ROUND 

In the wake of punk’s seismic and well recounted impact on the UK music scene, countless hitherto unavailable influences suddenly became available and de rigueur for the nation’s would-be pop stars. Enabled by a new kind of record shop that began to appear across the country in Rough Trade’s image, and encouraged by an absolute disregard for ‘the rules’, interested young people were quickly exposed to a broad spectrum of music from beyond the realm of three chord rock ‘n roll. Nowhere was the outcome more notable than on the dancefloors of the day.

‘Shake The Foundations’ captures that after dark revolution, showcasing an era when disco, dub, electronica, funk and - whisper it - pop sensibilities - began to flood into the alternative, post-punk landscape. Running parallel with Ze Records and the no-wave movement in the US, clubs such as Marc Almond’s Digital Disco and legendary nights at The Garage in Nottingham, The State in Liverpool, the Blue Note in Derby and across London at nights like the Batcave became fast moving, democratic melting pots.

Across 3CDs, Bill Brewster selects highlights from his own extensive DJing career, each disc individually curated. As he himself puts it, “The important thing was not to impress James Brown, emulate the Fatback Band or wear Kraftwerk’s game-face. The point was to have a go. ‘Shake The Foundations’ is not a comprehensive look at post-punk, so much as a shakily hand-drawn map of a particular area. It’s what happened when the post-punk fallout collided with the dancefloor, and forty years later we’re still feeling its effects”.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. GUESS WHO? – A Certain Ratio
2. COUP - 23 Skidoo
3. 100 EVIL SMOKESTACKING BABY – Haircut 100
4. THIS FEAR OF GODS – Simple Minds
5. LOVE 30 - The Stranglers
6. BORN EVERY MINUTE – The Passage
7. SARAVA - Blue Rondo A La Turk
8. SERBIAN VILLAGE – Medium Medium
9. PUSH OUT THE BOAT – The Higsons
10.POST WAR GLAMOUR GIRLS – John Cooper Clarke
11.SKIN DEEP – The Passions
12.INVADERS OF THE HEART (MIX ONE) –Jah Wobble
13.CAN YOU MOVE – Modern Romance
14.SLANG TEACHER – Wide Boy Awake
15.HYPNOTISED - C Cat Trance
16.STRETCH - Maximum Joy

Disc 2
1. LIONS - Tones On Tail
2. TRUST IS A MUST – Ian Dury
3. WHAT DANCE IS THIS? – Perfect Zebras
4. FAITH & HOPE & CHARITY – The Fun Boy Three
5. DREAM GAMES - Shock
6. RUSHA – Jesse Rae
7. DON’T - Thomas Leer
8. BIG MAN RESTLESS – Kissing The Pink
9. BLUE FOR YOU - Paul Haig
10.FREQUENCY 7 - Visage
11.BANG EM RIGHT - Six Sed Red
12.TINGLE - Quando Quango
13.CCCAN’T YOU SEE – Vicious Pink
14.MOVE ON – Fashiøn
15.SET FIGHTER - Wide Boy Awake

Disc 3
1. WHEN ARE WE? (NOW WE ARE) – Surface Mutants
2. WHY ARE WE IN LOVE – Furniture
3. ROB A BANK – The Pop Group
4. GET IT RIGHT – Animal Magic
5. BLACK LEATHER – Nightmares In Wax
6. OBEDIENCE - Normil Hawaiians
7. ASBESTOS LEAD ASBESTOS – The 012
8. KEEP BEAT – Vee VV
9. LIVING WILD – Mataya Clifford
10.SO MANY WAYS – Electric Chairs
11.DREAMS ARE BETTER – London Underground
12.ARTY-FACT – Group Therapy
13.WE ARE ALL ANIMALS – The Diagram Brothers
14.QUIT THE BODY – The Chicken Granny
15.BED BOUND SAGA – Machine Gunn Hogg And Co
16.HOGGS MIGHT FLY - Playgroup
17.SHAKE (THE FOUNDATIONS) – Glaxo Babies
18.DISCO PURGE – Family Fodder

THE LATEST IN THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL ‘C’ SERIES, RIFFING ON THE ORIGINAL C86 CASSETTE.

FOLLOWS PREVIOUS BEST-SELLING COLLECTIONS C86 (2014), C87 (2016), C88 (2017) AND C89 (2018)

SIXTY-THREE TRACKS CHARTING THE RISE TO DOMINANCE OF THE INDEPENDENT MUSIC SCENE, AS ONCE SHOESTRING ARTISTS AND LABELS BEGAN TO FIND AN AUDIENCE BORDERING ON THE MAINSTREAM.

INCLUDES MORE HOUSEHOLD NAMES THAN EVER – THE CHARLATANS, THE LA’S, OCEAN COLOUR SCENE, BOO RADLEYS, SPIRITUALIZED ETC – ALONGSIDE SCENE FRONTRUNNERS LIKE PARIS ANGELS, WORLD OF TWIST, NORTHSIDE, THE SUNDAYS, FLOWERED UP, NED’S ATOMIC DUSTBIN AND THE SARAH RECORDS ROSTER.

ALSO DIGS DEEP INTO THE LESSER-KNOWN 1990 UNDERGROUND, REVEALING COUNTLESS HIDDEN GEMS AND EXCITING REDISCOVERIES.

PRODUCED BY THE TEAM THAT BROUGHT YOU ‘SCARED TO GET HAPPY’, ‘STILL IN A DREAM’, ‘ANOTHER SPLASH OF COLOUR’, ‘LOSING TOUCH WITH MY MIND’, ‘ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE’ AND COUNTLESS OTHER HIT COMPILATIONS AND BOX SETS.

Over a decade now since punk rocked the British musical scene to its foundations and caused an eruption of independently produced records, the scene and a new generation of figurehead artists began to let ambition in and head overground, playing to increasingly large crowds, working with bigger budgets and selling more copies, finding a footing in the UK’s Top Forty, venturing into the USA and, ultimately, creating a mainstream audience now primed for credible, guitar-tinged pop. Meanwhile, an underground revolution in clubland began to push towards the commercial same space, resulting in an inevitable fusion of songcraft and dancefloor aesthetics.

“C90” captures perfectly the moment these tribes began to coalesce. From the opening, club-friendly rendition of The Charlatans’ ‘Polar Bear’ to The La’s knowingly backward looking ‘Timeless Melody’ and all in-between, this is the sound of a scene dropping the raincoats, dropping acid and aiming for domination. 1990 was the start of a new decade when the Indie scene was dominated by Madchester and the arrival of Shoegaze and with nods towards grunge and what would become known as Britpop, plus hints of a proto-laddism peering out from between the cracks in a post-Smiths aesthetic, the sound of 1990, it could be argued, set the tone for the remainder of the decade.

“C90” is a snapshot of a unique moment in time. A piece of history. The sound of a country putting the hard-biting 1980s behind it, embracing the Daisy Age and looking to move forwards.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1. POLAR BEAR - The Charlatans
2. SWAY - Ocean Colour Scene
3. PERFUME - Paris Angels
4. THE STORM - World Of Twist
5. ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART - Saint Etienne
6. IT’S ON - Flowered Up
7. GET HIGHER - Moonflowers
8. MY RISING STAR - Northside
9. WONDERMENT – Thousand Yard Stare
10. THOUGHTFORMS - Lush
11. ANYWAY THAT YOU WANT ME - Spiritualized
12. SWANSONG - Boo Radleys
13. JUGGERNAUT RIDES – Swervedriver
14. AVALYN I - Slowdive
15. HALF-LIFE, REMEMBERED – Pale Saints
16. SOMETHING MORE (AMBIENT VERSION) - Chapterhouse
17. CAN’T BE SURE – The Sundays
18. SHE SINGS ALONE – See See Rider
19. PLEASE LET ME GO – The Popinjays

DISC TWO
1. NEW ART RIOT - Manic Street Preachers
2. AIM - Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
3. POP SONG - Th’ Faith Healers
4. BEAM ME UP – New Fast Automatic Daffodils
5. TO KILL A SLOW GIRL WALKING – The Telescopes
6. WELCOME TO DEAD TOWN – The Seers
7. LISTEN - Honey Smugglers
8. SEEMS TO ME - Milltown Brothers
9. BIG CITY (WAVES OF JOY) (DEMO) – Spacemen 3
10. I FELL IN LOVE LAST NIGHT – Heavenly
11. SEAN CONNERY – James Dean Driving Experience
12. TAKE - Raintree County
13. NOAH’S ARK – Brighter
14. AMNESIA – Something Pretty Beautiful
15. EARTHWHEEL - Sandkings
16. IF I COULD SHINE - The Sweetest Ache
17. MAD AS LOVE - Greenhouse
18. CRAZY MIXED UP KID - Mousefolk
19. THESE THINGS HAPPEN – Action Painting!
20. STRANGE - All Over The Place
21. I KNOW - Bark Psychosis

DISC THREE
1. TIMELESS MELODY – The La’s
2. HIGHRISE LOVE – The Darkside
3. EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU – My Jealous God
4. SLEEP - Eternal
5. POTBOILER - Penelope’s Web
6. DEAD LIKE YOU – The Steamkings
7. TWENTY-FIFTEEN – The Sunflowers
8. BESIDE THE SEA – The Kennedy Pill
9. LITTLE VALLEY TOWN - Jane From Occupied Europe
10. SUNDAY NEVER COMES AROUND – Po!
11. GOOD MORNING – Jane Pow
12. LEARNING TO KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT - How Many Beans Make Five
13. LOVESVILLE USA - Montgomery Clifts
14. SHE MADE EVERYTHING GROOVY – The Ogdens
15. OUT OF MY MIND – Avo-8
16. DARKEST BLUE – Gentle Despite
17. MY HEART IS WHERE MY HOME IS - The Chrysalids
18. WHEN I FIND YOU – Little Red Schoolhouse
19. NOTHING IN YOUR HEART – Life With Patrick
20. WHAT IS MORE THAN LIFE – Horse Latitudes
21. I REALLY DO LOVE YOU PENELOPE – Hey Paulette
22. MISSING YOU – The Ammonites
23. CHEAT ON ME – The Emotionals

While the likes of “Rubber Soul”, ‘See My Friends’ and ‘Still I’m Sad’ had served notice in 1965 of British pop’s heightened level of ambition, 1966 would prove to be an even more tumultuous twelvemonth period as experimentation and innovation grew to new levels.

The release that August of “Revolver” – whose cataclysmic closing track ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ landed amongst the record-buying public like an impenetrable missile from outer space – brought the concept of psychedelic music out of the margins and into the mainstream.

However, psychedelia – condemned by national newspaper The Sun as “the new and dangerous sound in pop music” – had been percolating throughout the year. The word was already in subterranean use in America, adapted by the likes of The 13th Floor Elevators and Hollywood hustler Kim Fowley, who in late 1965 had become the first person to promote a record with the term “psychedelic”.

Arriving in London in March 1966, Fowley became a proselytising influence for the new sound, instructing bemused young British bands to “act psychedelically”. His sojourn coincided with the relocation of Californian band The Misunderstood, whose incendiary sound and stage act was a major influence on a new generation of British acts.

Meanwhile, serial pioneers The Yardbirds were making increasingly audacious music, their new manager Simon Napier-Bell instructed the young John’s Children to become “the first psychedelic group”, while mod band The Creation developed an intriguing pop-art approach.

Featuring 84 tracks, A Slight Disturbance In My Mind: The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds Of 1966 examines the “experimental pop” element of the British music scene during that epochal twelvemonth period with a dizzying, dazzling mix of nascent psychedelia, introspective pop and what’s been retrospectively labelled freakbeat.

We feature vital contributions from some of the era’s biggest names (The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Hollies, The Animals etc), a bunch of highly collectable cult classics, a huge stash of unissued-at-thetime nuggets and early outings for such future legends as Bowie, Bolan, Slade and The Bee Gees.

Housed in a clamshell box containing a 52-page booklet crammed with biographical information and priceless period photos and memorabilia, A Slight Disturbance In My Mind is a glorious snapshot of British pop storming the gates of a new, strange and wonderful dawn.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

1. MAKING TIME – The Creation
2. SHAPES OF THINGS – The Yardbirds
3. I’LL KEEP HOLDING ON – The Action
4. MUD IN YOUR EYE – Fleur-De-Lys
5. SWEET MUSIC – The Koobas
6. ORIENTAL SADNESS – The Hollies
7. PLAY DOWN – The Bee Gees
8. AM I THE RED ONE (ALTERNATIVE MIX) – Mick Softley With The Summer Suns*
9. I UNSEEN – The Misunderstood
10. SECURITY (EXTENDED VERSION) – The ’N Betweens*
11. I DIG EVERYTHING – David Bowie
12. SHE’S A GIRL – The Attraction
13. A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY – The Pretty Things
14. DADDY LONG LEGS (BRASS-FREE VERSION) – Lindsay Muir’s Untamed
15. MAN WITH MONEY – Outrage*
16. THE QUIET EXPLOSION – The Ugly’s
17. THIRTEEN WOMEN – The Renegades
18. I TAKE IT THAT WE’RE THROUGH – The Riot Squad
19. MAJOR CATASTROPHE – Katch 22
20. HIPPY GUMBO (DEMO VERSION) – Marc Bolan
21. I WILL HAVE YOU – Just Five
22. TOMORROW NIGHT – The Times
23. BLOW-UP – The In Crowd
24. SIMPLIFIED – The Majority
25. BACK SEAT DRIVER – The Ministry Of Sound
26. BABY, YOU’VE GOT IT – The Truth
27. I JUST GOT SOME – Rod Stewart
28. ANSWERS PLEASE – The Luvin’ Kind

DISC TWO
1. MY FRIEND JACK (DEMO VERSION) – The Smoke
2. PLEASE PLEASE ME – The Score
3. PAINTER MAN (2017 STEREO MIX) – The Creation
4. WHY DON’T YOU SMILE NOW – Downliners Sect
5. YOU’VE GOTTA HAVE LOVE BABE (DEMO VERSION) – Graham Bond Organisation
6. OUTCAST – The Animals
7. WE’RE BROKEN – The Moody Blues
8. I’VE LAID SOME DOWN IN MY TIME – Tony Colton
9. WELL…ALL RIGHT – The People
10. SHAPES IN MY MIND (US 45 VERSION) – Keith Relf
11. MY TIME (BRASS-FREE VERSION) – The Pretty Things
12. FANCY – The Kinks
13. YOU’RE MY GIRL – Manfred Mann
14. WHAT A STATE I’M IN – The Tremeloes
15. TURN INTO EARTH – Al Stewart
16. THE MORNING AFTER – The Mindbenders
17. WALKIN’ WALKIN’ WALKIN’ – The Favourite Sons
18. HAVE YOU EVER LOVED SOMEBODY – The Searchers
19. HUNGRY – The 5 A.M. Event
20. MOLLY ANDERSON’S COOKERY BOOK – The Artwoods
21. TAX MAN – Loose Ends
22. THE RUIN – Deep Feeling
23. KICKS – The Wheels
24. YOU’RE MY GIRL – The Kingpins
25. PAINT IT BLACK – The Tomcats
26. SAGITTARIUS – The Cortinas
27. WRONG WAY – The Brood
28. HOLIDAYMAKER – The Key

DISC THREE
1. THE LOVE I THOUGHT I’D FOUND – John’s Children
2. SAVE MY SOUL – The Wimple Winch
3. STROLL ON – The Yardbirds
4. GLENDORA – Downliners Sect
5. I’M NOT YOUR STEPPING STONE (DEMO VERSION) – The Flies
6. IT’S A CRIME – The Kirkbys
7. LET THE LIVE LIVE – The Sorrows
8. I GO TO SLEEP – The Fingers
9. DON’T TELL ME – Arthur Brown
10. HAPPY NEW YEAR – Beverley
11. I AM THE WORLD – The Bee Gees
12. CLOWN – The Hollies
13. INDICATION – The Zombies
14. LITTLE ROSY – The Rocking Vickers
15. WHAT DOES SHE DO – Sounds Around
16. MY LITTLE RED BOOK – Episode Six
17. NO MORE YOU AND ME – The Tornados ’66
18. GIRL CHILD, I AM AN EVIL WITCHMAN – The ’N Betweens
19. HURDY GURDY MAN – The Spectres
20. SUMMER LEAVES ME WITH A SIGH – Tuesday’s Children
21. ADVERTISING MAN – The Reaction
22. MY WORLD FELL DOWN – The Ivy League
23. HEY, YOU LOLITA – The Silence
24. I SUPPOSE – The Secrets
25. DIFFERENT KIND OF LOVE SONG – Outrage*
26. TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS – The Mirage
27. MY MIND – The Misunderstood
28. DISTURBANCE – The Move

* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

Extensive 4CD/book set exploring the punk and post-punk sound of the ‘steel city’.

Features classics, rarities, album tracks and TWELVE previously unreleased gems from The Human League, Pulp (and members thereof), Heaven 17, Thompson Twins, B.E.F., Artery, ABC, Clock DVA, Hula, The Danse Society, In The Nursery, Treebound Story and many more.

4CD + hardback book format contains over 20,000 words of artists’ sleevenotes, essays and memoirs from key players in the city’s music scene.

Curated and designed by the people who brought you Manchester – North Of England, Revolutionary Spirit – The Sound Of Liverpool, Silhouettes And Statues, Electrical Language, Scared To Get Happy, Still In A Dream and many more critically acclaimed box sets.

Journey through the music of a generation in one of the UK’s most vibrant and creative cities.

Sheffield in the 1970s…. a city in decline, its steel mills and factories closing and its vast housing estates beginning to crumble. Even the city’s two football teams were both experiencing the worst form in their long histories. An unlikely setting, then, for a musical revolution, but aren’t they always? As it transpired, in the aftermath of punk this industrial backdrop, alive with frustrated young talent and peppered with accessible and affordable rehearsal and performance spaces, became a hotbed of uniquely informed new bands that challenged both the constraints of genre and the dominance of music from London, Liverpool and Manchester.

Dreams To Fill The Vacuum charts the revival of Sheffield and its music in the latter half of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s, from The Human League to Pulp, via Aardvark, Pax and Native Records, and onto the chart successes of Heaven 17, ABC, Thompson Twins and many others. Featuring cornerstone contributions from the city’s brightest stars – Oakey, Cocker, Ware, Marsh, Hawley, Newton and co – alongside many more lesser-known legends, this is a tale of a city and its people rediscovering itself.

Packed with first-hand artist sleevenotes, insightful essays, revealing imagery and brilliant, essential music, Dreams To Fill The Vacuum offers a story in need of telling.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE: CD
1977-1981
1. DANCEVISION – The Human League
2. DON'T TRY TO CURE YOURSELF - They Must Be Russians
3. DREAMS TO FILL THE VACUUM – I’m So Hollow
4. MODERN MEN – The Prams
5. ALL TIME LOW - 2.3
6. METAL BOYS – Hobbies Of Today
7. TRACK NO. 5 - Mein Glas Fabrik *
8. HELP ME - Red Zoo *
9. AVOID THE SURGERY (DEMO) – I Scream Brothers
10. JUNIOR - B. Troop
11. SHE’S IN LOVE WITH MYSTERY – Thompson Twins
12. SAY AND DO - Repulsive Alien
13. TORCH – Veiled Threat
14. QUESTIONS OF GENDER - De Tian
15. UNKNOWN – Molodoy
16. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - TV Product *
17. ELECTRIC WALTZ – Negatives
18. END OF ACT ONE - Y?
19. THE MAZE – The Toy Shop
20. A GIRLFRIEND IS… - Vena Cava
21. DROWNING – Graph
22. MEN IN THE MIRRORSHADES – Rapid Eye Movements
23. LLAMAS (LIVE AT THE WIMPY BAR) – A Major European Group
24. RAINDANCE - The Past Seven Days
25. LIVING IN CONFUSION – Pagan Bo

DISC TWO: CD
1981-1982
1. (WE DON'T NEED THIS) FASCIST GROOVE THANG (12" MIX) – Heaven 17
2. LUCIFER’S FRIEND – Vision
3. THE CLOWN – Artery
4. TWIST - New Model Soldier
5. TRAIN - Surface Mutants
6. 4 HOURS (REMIXED SINGLE VERSION) - Clock DVA
7. A BABY CALLED BILLY – British Electronic Foundation
8. WAR GAMES - Flying Alphonso Brothers *
9. ENGLISH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE – Shy Tots
10. HEAVY MEN - Disease *
11. DEITY’S LAMENT – Stunt Kites
12. SECRET SOCIETY – Mau Maus
13. MARCELLA BALL – The Naughtiest Girl Was A Monitor
14. CORPSE CREEPER - Quite Unnerving
15. PARKING BOYS - Acrobats Of Desire
16. MAN WITH A LUMINOUS HEAD (DEMO) * - The Blimp
17. SCRAMBLE FOR STYLE – The Mirror Crack’d
18. REAL LIFE – Vital
19. PSYCHOKILLER - Heroes Of The Beach
20. ALPHABET SOUP - ABC

DISC THREE: CD
1982-1984
1. EVERYBODY’S PROBLEM – Pulp
2. INTRUDER IN THE DUST – Bass Tone Trap
3. JUST A GAME - U.V. Pøp
4. DANSE/MOVE – The Danse Society
5. ISKRA - In The Nursery
6. DYING MAN, FAITHFUL PRIEST – Dachau Choir
7. TEX MIRROR H - Out Of Reach
8. NO ONE LEAVES THE) FEVER CAR – Hula
9. QUIET TYPE – Time In Motion
10. OVER – SIIIII
11. MANNEQUIN – Ipso Facto
12. WORLDS APART - Fatales *
13. BILLINGHAM’S ISLAND (DEMO)* - Tsi Tsi
14. FISH AND BREADCAKE - Fish And Breadcake
15. LATE NIGHTS (DEMO) - Harriet *
16. OUT OF THE FLESH (MIX 1) – Chakk
17. THE DISTANCE FROM KOLN – Native Europe
18. SILICON CHIP – Defective Turtles
19. PERSUASION – Vendino Pact
20. IN MY EYES (DEMO)* - Typhoon Saturday

DISC FOUR: CD
1984-1988
1. KITCHENETTE - Peter Hope And The Jonathan S. Podmore Method
2. WINDS OF CHANGE – Scala Timpani
3. YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARD (FLEXI VERSION) - One Thousand Violins
4. CRAYOLA - A.C. Temple
5. UP THE HILL – Sedition
6. MESSAGE FROM A DEAD MAN – The Flight Commander
7. ZULU - The Anti Group
8. CHAINS – Chain
9. FIX THE KITCHEN - Dig Vis Drill
10. CHILDREN – Kilgore Trout
11. BOTTLE BREAST – Fishwives
12. TREEHOUSE - Mr Morality *
13. SKIN SCRAPED BACK – Workforce
14. LIKE A FOOL – Treebound Story
15. WONDERFUL LIFE – Nick Fish & The Seahorses
16. CROW BAR – The Box
17. COLORADO DEAD MAN – The Midnight Choir
18. THE WORLD DOESN'T TURN – The Junk
19. LAWNMOWER WOMAN (LIVE) - The Wacky Gardeners

1982 was a decisive year for The Fall. Their critically acclaimed album “Hex Enduction Hour” was released in March on Kamera Records, closely followed by “Room To Live” in September.

This double LP includes the classic album (“Room To Live”) plus live recordings in Manchester, London, New Zealand, Netherlands and Canada.

This release is a double vinyl on coloured marble effect vinyl.

Founded by its only constant member, Mark E. Smith, The Fall formed in Manchester in 1976 and were one of the most prominent post-punk groups in the world. Musically, there may have been several stylistic changes over the years, but it was often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.

“They are always different; they are always the same.” John Peel

TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE
1. JOKER HYSTERICAL FACE
2. MARQUIS CHA-CHA
3. HARD LIFE IN COUNTRY
4. ROOM TO LIVE

SIDE TWO
1. DETECTIVE INSTINCT
2. SOLICITOR IN STUDIO
3. PAPAL VISIT

SIDE THREE
1. JOKER HYSTERICAL FACE (BURY 27/04/82)
2. TOWN CALLED CRAPPY / SOLICITOR IN STUDIO (LONDON 25/03/82)
3. HARD LIFE IN COUNTRY (WELLINGTON 19/08/82)

SIDE FOUR
1. DETECTIVE INSTINCT (MANCHESTER 22/12/82)
2. ROOM TO LIVE (ROTTERDAM 12/02/83)
3. WORDS OF EXPECTATION (TORONTO 21/04/83)

1982 was a decisive year for The Fall. Their critically acclaimed album “Hex Enduction Hour” was released in March on Kamera Records, closely followed by “Room To Live” in September.

This six-disc boxset brings together those two classic albums alongside a host of John Peel sessions, Kamera singles, live performances and the group’s live album “In A Hole”, recorded during their tour of New Zealand and originally released on Flying Nun Records.

Also included in the box is a replica poster from the August 1982 show at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand and a replica press-release for “Hex Enduction Hour”.

Founded by its only constant member, Mark E. Smith, The Fall formed in Manchester in 1976 and were one of the most prominent post-punk groups in the world. Musically, there may have been several stylistic changes over the years, but it was often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.

“They are always different; they are always the same.” John Peel.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE: CD

1. THE CLASSICAL
2. JAWBONE AND THE AIR-RIFLE
3. HIP PRIEST
4. FORTRESS / DEER PARK
5. MERE PSEUD MAG. ED.
6. WINTER (HOSTEL-MAXI)
7. WINTER 2
8. JUST STEP S’WAYS
9. WHO MAKES THE NAZIS?
10. ICELAND
11. AND THIS DAY

DISC TWO: CD

ROOM TO LIVE

1. JOKER HYSTERICAL FACE
2. MARQUIS CHA-CHA
3. HARD LIFE IN COUNTRY
4. ROOM TO LIVE
5. DETECTIVE INSTINCT
6. SOLICITOR IN STUDIO
7. PAPAL VISIT
BONUS TRACKS
11. JOKER HYSTERICAL FACE (BURY 27/04/82)
12. TOWN CALLED CRAPPY / SOLICITOR IN STUDIO (LONDON 25/03/82)
13. HARD LIFE IN COUNTRY (WELLINGTON 19/08/82)
14. DETECTIVE INSTINCT (MANCHESTER 22/12/82)
15. ROOM TO LIVE (ROTTERDAM 12/02/83)
16. WORDS OF EXPECTATION (TORONTO 21/04/83)

DISC THREE: CD

SESSIONS – SINGLES –
SOUNDCHECKS

1. DEER PARK (JOHN PEEL SESSION 15/09/1981)
2. LOOK KNOW (JOHN PEEL SESSION 15/09/1981)
3. WINTER (JOHN PEEL SESSION 15/09/1981)
4. WHO MAKES THE NAZIS? (JOHN PEEL SESSION 15/09/1981)
5. LOOK KNOW (KAMERA SINGLE APRIL 82)
6. I’M INTO C.B. (KAMERA SINGLE APRIL 82)
7. SESSION MUSICIAN (BIERKELLER, LEEDS 05/11/1981)
8. JAZZED UP PUNK SHIT (666 CLUB, MANCHESTER 15/05/1982)
9. I’M INTO C.B. (STARS ON 45 VERSION) (FAGINS, MANCHESTER 30/09/1981)
10. AND THIS DAY (MAINSTREET, AUCKLAND, NZ SOUNDCHECK 20/08/1982)
11. DEER PARK (MAINSTREET, AUCKLAND, NZ SOUNDCHECK 20/08/1982)
12. AND THIS DAY (REVISITED) (ASTORIA 2, LONDON 26/02/1987)

DISC FOUR: CD

IN A HOLE

1. IMPRESSION OF J. TEMPERANCE
2. THE MAN WHOSE HEAD EXPANDED
3. ROOM TO LIVE
4. HIP PRIEST
5. LIE DREAM OF A CASINO SOUL
6. PROLE ART THREAT
7. HARD LIFE IN COUNTRY
8. THE CLASSICAL
9. MERE PSEUD MAG ED
10. MARQUIS CHA-CHA
11. BACKDROP

DISC FIVE: CD

IN A HOLE +

1. FANTASTIC LIFE
2. ENGLISH SCHEME
3. JOKER HYSTERICAL FACE
4. NO XMAS FOR JOHN QUAYS
5. SOLICITOR IN STUDIO
6. THE CONTAINER DRIVERS
7. C’N’C-BLACK NIGHT
8. LOOK, KNOW
9. WHO MAKES THE NAZIS?
10. GRAMME FRIDAY
11. SLAGS, SLATES ETC

DISC SIX: CD

PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
02/08/1982

1. I FEEL VOXISH
2. HARD LIFE IN COUNTRY
3. I’M INTO C.B.
4. LIE DREAM OF A CASINO SOUL
5. SOLICITOR IN STUDIO
6. TEMPO HOUSE
7. THE CLASSICAL
8. MARQUIS CHA-CHA
9. ROOM TO LIVE
10. HEXEN STRIFE
11. KNOT DEER PARK
12. TOTALLY WIRED
13. JOKER HYSTERICAL FACE
14. HIP PRIEST

'1977: The Year Punk Broke' kickstarts what we hope will be a new year-based series of compilations, celebrating the explosion of a new British phenomenon in 1977. This triple-CD box set follows the success of the 4-CD compilation Action Time Vision (2016), documenting Punk on indie labels, and 2017’s Power Pop/New Wave set Harmony In My Head. Punk’s Year Zero was 1976. But very few Punk records were actually released that year. The most significant musical developments happened in 1977, with a burgeoning, self-supporting network of clubs, performers, fanzines, indie labels and distributors creating an unstoppable groundswell that would revolutionise UK music and have an enduring impact on pop culture. '1977: The Year Punk Broke' reflects how a thrilling, controversial scene developed over those tumultuous twelve months. Joined by sympathetic but more experienced acts (Deaf School, Graham Parker, Motorhead, etc.), a welter of new, young bands created a sonic explosion, with sub-three minute adrenalin rushes of raw excitement.

Many of the year’s major breakthrough acts and cult favourites are included, including The Jam, The Damned, The Boomtown Rats, Buzzcocks, The Stranglers, Generation X, Sham 69, The Only Ones, The Rezillos, Ultravox!, 999, X-Ray Spex, ATV, The Boys and The Vibrators. The older guard – variously labelled Pub Rock, New Wave or Art Rock – are represented by Doctors Of Madness, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Deaf School, The Tyla Gang, Graham Parker & The Rumour, The Gorillas, The Count Bishops, Radio Stars, Spider and Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias. Other key names include Motorhead (Lemmy’s new venture after splitting with Hawkwind, a metal band loved by punks) and The Heartbreakers, Johnny Thunders’ band who recorded in London. Also present are a host of obscure indie Punk 45s and other rarities. The deluxe clamshell package includes a weighty booklet full of illustrations, with a 15,000-word sleeve-note and band-by-band biographies by compiler David Wells.

TRACK LISTING

Disc One
1. Boredom – Buzzcocks
2. London Lady – The Stranglers
3. Gatecrasher – The Gorillas
4. Neat Neat Neat – The Damned
5. Capaldi’s Café – Deaf School
6. Bad Time – The Vibrators
7. I Don’t Care – The Boys
8. Away From The Numbers – The Jam
9. Born To Lose – The Heartbreakers
10. Thinkin’ Of The U.S.A. – Eater
11. On The Edge – The Outsiders
12. Sick Of You – The Users
13. You Really Got Me – Chartreuse
14. I Wanna Be Free – The Rings
15. Man Of The Year – Models
16. Peter And The Pets – The Only Ones
17. Motorhead – Motorhead
18. Mony Mony – Celia And The Mutations
19. Runnin’ Riot – Cock Sparrer
20. I Need You – The Count Bishops
21. Let’s Go – Blitzkrieg Bop
22. Naive – The Killjoys
23. Incendiary Device – Johnny Moped
24. I Wanna Be Your Man – The Rezillos
25. No Russians In Russia – Radio Stars
26. Fascist Pigs – The Nosebleeds
27. Jubilee ’77 – The Exile

Disc Two
1. Lookin’ After No. 1- The Boomtown Rats
2. Whole Wide World – Wreckless Eric
3. I Can’t Come – The Snivelling Shits
4. Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone – Slaughter & The Dogs
5. For Adolfs Only – The Valves
6. Bulletin – Doctors Of Madness
7. Day By Day – Generation X
8. Television Viewer – The Vacants
9. Kill – Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias
10. You Can’t Rock And Roll (In A Council Flat) – Puncture
11. Enemies – Radiators From Space
12. Just Want To Be Myself (7” Version) – The Drones
13. Red London – Sham 69
14. Deranged Demented And Free – P.V.C.2
15. Oh Bondage Up Yours! – X-Ray Spex
16. 2-4-6-8 Motorway – Tom Robinson Band
17. Nasty, Nasty – 999
18. Rockwrok – Ultravox!
19. Family Planning – The Depressions
20. Radio Fun – Zeros
21. Pool Hall Punks – Tyla Gang
22. Klean Living Kids – The Stukas
23. Freak Show – The Lurkers
24. Hold My Hand – Jerks
25. Bleak Outlook – The Unwanted
26. Blood On The Wall – Some Chicken
27. Insane Society – Menace
28. Drab City – The Features
29. Back To The Wall – Spider
30. Just Another Teenage Anthem – New Hearts
31. (You Keep On Tellin’ Me) Lies – The Pleasers

Disc Three
1. Innocents – John Cooper Clarke
2. How Much Longer – Alternative TV
3. She Made Magic – The Wasps
4. Regulations – Neon Hearts
5. New York Shuffle – Graham Parker & The Rumour
6. Trash – The Doll
7. Ain’t No Legend – Maniacs
8. In My Love For You – Satan’s Rats
9. Police Car – Larry Wallis
10. Quit This Town – Eddie & The Hot Rods
11. Development Corporations – The Now
12. High Rise Living – Chelsea
13. Arabs In ‘Arrods – Art Attacks
14. Priorities – Trash
15. Dynamo – The Method
16. Naive – Public Zone
17. Jailbait – Left Hand Drive
18. Ripped And Torn – Swell Maps
19. I Can See You – Acme Sewage Co.
20. First Mistake – The Rats
21. Natty Punko – Brainiac Five
22. Defiant Pose – The Cortinas
23. Help I’m Trapped – The Carpettes
24. Tell Me The Truth (Live At The Vortex) – Neo
25. Raped – Raped
26. Flies – Fruit Eating Bears
27. Ru12 – Hobbies Of Today
28. Left Right And Centre – Drug Squad
29. I’m A Punk – Norman And The Hooligans

Founded by its only constant member, Mark E. Smith, The Fall formed in Manchester in 1976 and were one of the most prominent post-punk groups in the world. Musically, there may have been several stylistic changes over the years, but it was often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics. “Dragnet” is the second studio album – released 26th October 1979 - these editions celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this seminal album. Originally released through record label Step-Forward, it predicated 2 major factors in the group’s career – high productivity and high group turnover. The album has historically garnered excellent reviews, including 4/5 in MOJO, 8.7/10 on Pitchfork and 4/5 in Q Magazine. Featuring the one and only Mark E. Smith alongside Steve Hanley (bass), Marc Riley (guitar), Craig Scanlon (guitar), Mike Leigh (drums), Kay Carroll (backing vocals) and Yvonne Pawlett (keyboards). 

TRACK LISTING

CD:

Disc: 1
1. Psykick Dancehall
2. A Figure Walks
3. Printhead
4. Dice Man
5. Before The Moon Falls
6. Your Heart Out
7. Muzorewi's Daughter
8. Flat Of Angles
9. Choc-Stock
10. Spectre Vs. Rector
11. Put Away
12. Rowche Rumble
13. In My Area
14. Fiery Jack
15. 2nd Dark Age
16. Psykick Dancehall No.2 (Alternate Take)
17. Rowche Rumble (Take 2)
18. Rowche Rumble (Take 3)
19. Rowche Rumble (Take 4)
20. Rowche Rumble (Take 5)
21. In My Area (Alternate Take 1)
22. In My Area (Alternate Take 2)

Disc: 2
1. Psykick Dancehall (Live In Retford)
2. Rowche Rumble (Live In Retford)
3. Flat Of Angles (Live In Retford)
4. 2nd Dark Age (Live In Retford)
5. Rebellious Jukebox (Live In Retford)
6. Muzorewi's Daughter (Live In Retford)
7. In My Area (Live In Retford)
8. Choc Stock (Live In Retford)
9. Printhead (Live In Retford)
10. A Figure Walks (Live In Retford)
11. Fiery Jack (Live In Retford)
12. No Xmas For John Quays (Live In Retford)
13. Psycho Mafia (Live In Retford)

Disc: 3
1. Psykick Dancehall (Live In Los Angeles)
2. Rowche Rumble (Live In Los Angeles)
3. Flat Of Angles (Live In Los Angeles)
4. Rebellious Jukebox (Live In Los Angeles)
5. Various Times (Live In Los Angeles)
6. Stepping Out (Live In Los Angeles)
7. Your Heart Out (Live In Los Angeles)
8. Dice Man (Live In Los Angeles)
9. Spectre Vs Rector (Live In Los Angeles)
10. Choc Stock (Live In Los Angeles)
11. Muzorewi's Daughter (Live In Los Angeles)

The first full-length album of The Fall, Live At The Witch Trials, is not actually a live album. Emerging out of a two-day studio session at Camden Sound in North West London during a sickly December of 1978, Witch Trials amounts to the sinister foundation of the band's diverse sound. Every song explores drastically different styles and wild terrain, leaving much to decipher over its eleven tracks. 

TRACK LISTING

CD:

Disc: 1
1. Frightened
2. Crap Rap 2/Like To Blow
3. Rebellious Jukebox
4. No Xmas For John Quays
5. Mother-Sister!
6. Industrial Estate
7. Underground Medecin
8. Two Steps Back
9. Live At The Witch Trials
10. Futures And Pasts
11. Music Scene

Disc: 2
1. Bingo Master's Break-Out!
2. Psycho Mafia
3. Repetition
4. It's The New Thing
5. Various Times (Extended Version)
6. Dresden Dolls (Home Rehearsals From Dresden Dolls Bootleg Single)
7. Psycho Mafia (Home Rehearsals From Dresden Dolls Bootleg Single)
8. Industrial Estate (Home Rehearsals From Dresden Dolls Bootleg Single)
9. Stepping Out (Live From Short Circuit: Live At The Electric Circus)
10. Last Orders (Live From Short Circuit: Live At The Electric Circus)
11. Rebellious Jukebox (John Peel Session)
12. Mother - Sister! (John Peel Session)
13. Industrial Estate (John Peel Session)
14. Futures And Pasts (John Peel Session)
15. Put Away (John Peel Session)
16. Mess Of My (John Peel Session)
17. No Xmas For John Key (John Peel Session)
18. Like To Blow (John Peel Session)

Disc: 3
1. Like To Blow (Live 1978)
2. Stepping Out (Live 1978)
3. Two Steps Back (Live 1978)
4. Mess Of My (Live 1978)
5. It's The New Thing (Live 1978)
6. Various Times (Live 1978)
7. Bingo-Master's Break-Out! (Live 1978)
8. Frightened (Live 1978)
9. Industrial Estate (Live 1978)
10. Psycho Mafia (Live 1978)
11. Music Scene (Live 1978)
12. Mother-Sister! (Live 1978)

The Long Ryders were formed in 1982 by young American musicians influenced by Gram Parsons, C&W, The Byrds, and the punk scene found in their hometown of Los Angeles. The Long Ryders were an anecdote to formula stadium rock and wimpy synth-pop." The founders of alt-country, The Long Ryders, now release their first new album in over thirty years. Featuring the classic line-up of Sid Griffin, Stephen McCarthy, Tom Stevens and Greg Sowders, it makes the day after Valentine’s Day as much a romantic celebration. The stunning new album follows hot on the heels of the deluxe reissue treatment given to two classic Long Ryders long players, “State of Our Union” and “Two-Fisted Tales”.

The band featured Sid Griffin on guitar, autoharp, and harmonica, Stephen McCarthy on guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, and banjo, Tom Stevens, bass, and Greg Sowders, playing drums and percussion. With a sound reminiscent of the Buffalo Springfield and The Flying Burrito Brothers, but with a harder edge, they anticipated the alternative country music of the 1990s by a decade. Featuring eleven new Long Ryders compositions and a tribute cover of the late great Tom Petty’s song ‘Walls’, this is a Long Ryders for the 21st century; kicking off with the anthemic ‘Greenville’, a track which proves the band haven’t lost any of that magic guitar interplay. ‘Molly Somebody’ is an eclectic pop tune that doesn’t neglect any of their country and rock sensibilities, while the likes of ‘What the Eagle Sees’ reflects the energy of early punk and power pop that so informed them in the early days. You can still hear their personal connection with the music of the 1960s’, but as ever The Long Ryders aren’t a band who live in the past. Album closer ‘Psychedelic Country Soul’ is the greatest testament to that, performed like the previous 11 songs, with precision and fire; the guitars weave and harmonicas build and ebb, the song spreading like wildfire.

The Long Ryders have always been celebrated for what they have to say as much as the music they make. With “Psychedelic Country Soul” their message delivered with 12 strings and never-ending harmonies has never been clearer. This is a Long Ryders album which stands up with their classic albums such as “Native Sons” and their unforgettable single ‘Looking For Lewis And Clark’. “Psychedelic Country Soul” will certainly sit on many Best Of lists at the end of the year. But you can note its worthiness when you hear it. It is that good.

TRACK LISTING

1. Greenville
2. Let It Fly
3. Molly Somebody
4. All Aboard
5. Make It Real
6. If You Want To See Me Cry
7. What The Eagle Sees
8. California State Line
9. The Sound
10. Walls
11. Bells Of August
12. Psychedelic Country Soul

Formed in 1990 in Liverpool by singer and bassist Edgar ‘Summertyme’ Jones, guitarist Ged Lynn and drummer Paul Maguire, THE STAIRS quickly attracted a huge cult following with their classic fusion of mid-1960s US garage rock and British R’n’B.

Having nearly signed to Imaginary Records, THE STAIRS inked a deal with Go! Discs for three memorable EPs and the album MEXICAN R’n’B (1992). Despite critical acclaim and a loyal following, the album’s sales were disappointing and The Stairs’ second LP was abandoned after demos were recorded, only to later be exhumed by local label Viper Records.

Edgar Jones subsequently carved a niche in making albums that continued to evoke the best of music’s past while also remaining contemporary, attracting many heavy fans and admirers (Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller among them – Edgar played in Weller’s band for a while).

Now properly collectable, with impressive price tags for all of the band’s original vinyl editions, MEXICAN R’n’B is treated to its first-ever reissue, remastered with an array of bonus material across two additional CDs.

The project is supported by Edgar Jones and overseen by Mojo magazine’s Lois Wilson, who is closely involved with Edgar’s career to this day…

Includes the singles ‘Weed Bus’, ‘Woman Gone And Say Goodbye’ and ‘Mary Joanna’. Disc 1 of this 3-CD Digipak is expanded with the non-album tracks from the EP editions. Discs 2 and 3 revisit the material on the Viper compilations Right In The Back Of Your Mind, Who Is This and The Great Lemonade Machine In The Sky 1987-1994.

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1 - MEXICAN R’n’B
1. Intro
2. Mary Joanna
3. Mr Window Pane
4. Out In The Country
5. Laughter In Their Eyes
6. Sweet Thing
7. Russian R'n'B
8. Right In The Back Of Your Mind
9. Mexican R'n'B
10. Mundane Mundae
11. Wrap Me Round Your Finger
12. Weed Bus
13. Woman Gone And Say Goodbye
14. Sometimes The World Escapes Me
15. Fall Down The Rain
16. Outro
BONUS TRACKS:
17. Take No Notice Of The World Outside
18. Flying Machine
19. When It All Goes Wrong
20. You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
21. Russian Spy And I
22. Yes It Is It's True
23. Mad Song
24. I Can Only Give You Everything
25. Squashed Tomato Stomp
26. Fall Down The Rain

Disc: 2 - DEMO’S ‘N’ RARITIES
1. Last Time Around
2. No One Knows
3. Mr Joke Shop Owner
4. I Won't Be Back Again
5. Fall Down The Rain (Surf)
6. Woman Gone And Say Goodbye
7. No Escape
8. Weed Bus (Demo)
9. I Remember A Day
10. Flying Machine
11. Mr Window Pane
12. Right In The Back Of Your Mind
13. We Can Be Happy
14. Laughter In Their Eyes
15. Out In The Country
16. Happyland (Demo)
17. Weed Bus (Demo)
18. Sometimes The World Escapes Me
19. Moonchild
20. Stop Messin' (Toe Rag Vsn)
21. It Was Alright (Toe Rag Vsn)
22. Cabbage Man
23. Do Dah Do
24. Snake Baker
25. Custard Flys
26. Just A Little Sunshine

Disc: 3 - DEMO’S ‘N’ RARITIES
1. Skin Up
2. She's So Fine
3. Saw Her Today
4. It Was Alright
5. Gotta Reason
6. Stop Messin'
7. Happyland
8. Set Me Free
9. When She Walks Down My Street
10. Talkin' To You
11. Teenage Head Cancer Blues
12. Untitled
13. Shit Town
14. Love Has Come And Gone Away
15. Driving Me Out Of My Mind
16. I Saw Her Today
17. Do It To It
18. I'm Bored

The expanded 3-CD follow up to the iconic now out of print 50,000 Fall Fans Can’t be Wrong compilation, now features songs right up to the groups last album. Compiled and annotated by long time Fall aficionado Daryl Easlea from across all the labels the band has appeared on. The booklet designed by long time Fall designer Becky Stewart contains a track by track overview. Mastered by Andy Pearce from the best sources available. Formed in Manchester in 1976, Fall were a seminal English post-punk group. The group existed in some form from that point on, built around its founder and only constant member, the late, great Mark E. Smith. Initially associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music underwent stylistic changes over the years, but was always characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics. This compilation is ideal for anyone wanting to discover the weird and wonderful world of the Fall. "They are always different; they are always the same." 

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1. Repetition
2. Rebellious Jukebox
3. Industrial Estate
4. Rowche Rumble
5. Fiery Jack
6. How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
7. Totally Wired
8. New Face In Hell
9. Prole Art Threat
10. Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul
11. The Classical
12. Hip Priest
13. Joker Hysterical Face
14. The Man Whose Head Expanded
15. Kicker Conspiracy
16. Eat Y'self Fitter
17. Oh! Brother
18. C.R.E.E.P.

Disc: 2
1. No Bulbs
2. Cruiser's Creek
3. Spoilt Victorian Child
4. Us 80's-90's
5. Mr Pharmacist
6. Living Too Late
7. Hey Luciani
8. There's A Ghost In My House
9. Hit The North
10. Carry Bag Man
11. Victoria
12. Big New Prinz
13. Dead Beat Descendant
14. Telephone Thing
15. High Tension Line
16. Free Range
17. Why Are People Grudgeful?
18. Lost In Music
19. Behind The Counter
20. M5
21. Feeling Numb

Disc: 3
1. The Chiselers
2. Powder Keg
3. Masquerade
4. Touch Sensitive
5. Dr Buck's Letter
6. Hollow Mind
7. Susan Vs Youthclub
8. Mountain Energei
9. Theme From Sparta Fc # 2
10. Blindness
11. Reformation (Uncut)
12. Wolf Kidult Man
13. Bury!
14. Greenway
15. Sir William Wray
16. The Remainderer
17. Venice With The Girls
18. Wise Ol' Man
19. New Facts Emerge

Sometimes, a disparate crowd of random influences and a handful of scene-makers coalesce out of nothing, and before you know it a movement is happening. So it was in the UK in the early-to-mid-‘80s, when an unlikely set of bands resurrected the spirit of mid-‘60s Garage Rock. Fusing that sound with elements of the pre-Fab Four, Psych, Mod, Rockabilly and Psychobilly, and greasing the wheels of this new machine with a thick slab of post—punk sensibility, bands across the UK began to shout and holler like they hadn’t in years, capturing their work on often rough and ready recordings, issued on Big Beat, Hangman, Hit Records, Media Burn, Creation and other equally fried labels. From London, Medway and the South East to Edinburgh and beyond, the Trash movement spread, quickly reaching out into mainland Europe and beyond.

Here in the UK, Trash finally enjoyed its moment in the sunshine in 1984, when four of the scene’s key bands appeared on Channel 4’s flagship music show The Tube. Spiky, brash, loud and unfettered by delusions of grandeur, this is the sound of the post punk UK music scene looking backwards whilst moving forwards. Not for the faint-hearted, sure, and always likely to tell you where you can stick it, but this is a sound that has stuck. The garage and trash scene, albeit under different names and sprinkled with a layer of post-Millennial self-awareness, continues to thrive around the world. Wherever one finds guitars, amplifiers and the primal spirit, one finds Trash. Packed full of rarities and collectibles – the Medway Valley and Billy Childish related material is currently particularly sought after – ‘Just A Bad Dream’ will appeal to fans of ‘80s Psychedelia, Mod Revival, Indie, Psychobilly and, of course, the ‘60s Garage Rock that influenced so many of these artists.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Clearly influenced by the flood of post-punk and rockabilly acts around the same time, Trash is a scuzzed-up version of garage, often recorded with little to no equipment and with more than an abundance of energy. Here we get the choicest nuggets, all collected on three jam-packed discs for your listening pleasure. Top collection.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE:
1. LITTLE BY LITTLE – Thee Mighty Caesars
2. SUBMARINE SONG – The Cannibals
3. NEXT TIME AROUND – The Barracudas
4. JUNE RHYME - The Sting-Rays
5. HUP TWO THREE FOUR – Sid Presley Experience
6. WHAT I WANT – The Prisoners
7. JUST A BAD DREAM – The Bugs
8. A GLIMPSE - The Green Telescope
9. WRITHING ON THE SHAGPILE – The Dentists
10. GO GORILLA – Ug And The Cavemen
11. I HEAR NOISES – The Vibes
12. THE WHOLE WORLD IS TURNING BROUCHARD! – Biff Bang Pow!
13. DRIVE ME WILD – The Aardvarks
14. GET WHAT I CAN –
The Margin Of Sanity
15. LITTLE MISS MISFIT – The Discords
16. DIRTY JEAN – The Mild Mannered Janitors
17. 125 - Blow-Up
18. STROLL ON - Auntie Vegetable
19. MR UNRELIABLE – The Inmates
20. JUST CALL ME SKY – Naz Nomad And The Nightmares

DISC TWO:
1. YOU CAN'T POLISH A TURD – Sexton Ming
2. MUNSTERS THEME – The Escalators
3. VEGETABLE MAN – The Jesus And Mary Chain
4. RIDE THIS TORPEDO – The Tall Boys
5. DON'T LET HER DARK YOUR DOOR – The Thanes
6. THE CRUSHER - Bananamen
7. TALK - The X-Men
8. I WANT THAT GIRL - Emptifish
9. I DON'T CARE – The Morticians
10. SWAMP THING – The Meteors 11. WHAT'S HAPPENING –Jasmine Minks
12. AND IN ENGLAND THEY'RE GOING MENTAL - Nutmeg
13. LIVIN' IN MY OWN NIGHTMARE – Prime Movers
14. FEVER IN MY POCKET – The Mindreaders
15. NERVOUS BREAKDOWN – King Kurt
16. I KNOW YOU LIED – The Stayrcase
17. ONE MORE LETTER – The Daggermen
18. WAITING NATION – The Psylons 19. THE DEAD – The Wigs
20. YOUNG BLOOD (LIVE) – Thee Headcoats

DISC THREE:
1. YOU WEREN'T BORN YOU WERE CREATED (LIVE) – The Playn Jayn
2. BRAND NEW CADILLAC – Thee Milkshakes
3. DON'T BE SORRY – The Surfadelics
4. TOO FAR GONE - Marionette
5. NO GREAT SHAKES – The Beatpack
6. ROCK AND ROLL TRAITOR – The Unholy Trinity
7. HE TELLS ME HE LOVES ME – The Delmonas
8. LA JUICE – The Wolfhounds
9. GARBAGEBRAIN – Revolving Paint Dream
10. LEAVE ME ALONE –Clapham South Escalators
11. MY EMANCIPATION – The Primevals
12. SHELTER FROM THE RAIN – Change Lings
13. PLUTONIUM MIND SHOCK – The Surf Rats
14. THE CURSE - The Golden Horde
15. SO IT'S NOT TO BE – The Delmontes
16. FARMER JOHN – The Gruff Men
17. THE HELL TRAIN – The Krewmen
18. HELLHAG SHUFFLE - Sunglasses After Dark
19. RINGING IN MY EARS - The Jackals Of Fresh Kid
20. THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD (DEMO) – The Screaming Dead

Following the release of FELT’s first five albums in February, the band’s reissue campaign continues with the second half of their discography. During the ‘80s Felt recorded ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels. This gorgeously-produced series explores the work of one of the greatest indie groups in recent memory. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Rain Of Crystal Spires
2. Down But Not Yet Out
3. September Lady
4. Grey Streets
5. All The People I Like Are Those That Are Dead
6. Gather Up Your Wings And Fly
7. A Wave Crashed On Rocks
8. Hours Of Darkness Have Changed My Mind

7"
1. Primitive Painters
2. Cathedral

Following the release of FELT’s first five albums in February, the band’s reissue campaign continues with the second half of their discography. During the ‘80s Felt recorded ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels. This gorgeously-produced series explores the work of one of the greatest indie groups in recent memory. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Declaration
2. Silver Plane
3. She Lives By The Castle
4. Stained-Glass Windows In The Sky
5. Riding On The Equator
6. Dark Red Birds

7”
1. Ballad Of The Band
2. I Didn’t Mean To Hurt You

Following the release of FELT’s first five albums in February, the band’s reissue campaign continues with the second half of their discography. During the ‘80s Felt recorded ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels. This gorgeously-produced series explores the work of one of the greatest indie groups in recent memory. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Apple Boutique
2. Ivory Past
3. Until The Fools Get Wise
4. How Spook Got Her Man
5. Bitter End
6. Tuesday’s Secret
7. Christopher Street
8. Jewels Are Set In Crowns
9. Under A Pale Light
10. Don’t Die On My Doorstep

7"
1. Rain Of Crystal Spires
2. I Will Die With My Head In Flames

Following the release of FELT’s first five albums in February, the band’s reissue campaign continues with the second half of their discography. During the ‘80s Felt recorded ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels. This gorgeously-produced series explores the work of one of the greatest indie groups in recent memory.

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1. Train Above The City
2. On Weegee’s Sidewalk
3. Run Chico Run
4. Press Softly On The Brakes Holly
5. Spectral Morning
6. Teargardens
7. Book Of Swords
8. Seahorses On Broadway

Disc: 2 (7”)
1. The Final Resting Of The Ark
2. There’s No Such Thing As Victory

Following the release of FELT’s first five albums in February, the band’s reissue campaign continues with the second half of their discography. During the ‘80s Felt recorded ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels. This gorgeously-produced series explores the work of one of the greatest indie groups in recent memory.

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1. I Can’t Make Love To You Anymore
2. Mobile Shack
3. Free
4. Budgie Jacket
5. Cartoon Sky
6. New Day Dawning
7. Down An August Path
8. Never Let You Go
9. She Deals In Crosses
10. Get Out Of My Mirror

Disc: 2 (7”)
1. Space Blues
2. Tuesday’s Secret

C89 is another celebration of the Eighties Indie scene, documenting a golden era when tuneful guitar-based bands made records on shoestring budgets, often issued on small labels with hand-made artwork, with little hope of mainstream exposure. This 3-CD box set follows previous best-selling collections C86 (2014), C87 (2016) and C88 (2017). C86 expanded the NME’s genre-defining compilation with 50 extra tracks from the period. C87 and C88 were the imaginary sequels, picking up the story as the 1980s unfolded.

Disc 1 is devoted to artists who haven’t previously graced this series, who first made an impact in 1988/1989. Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, The La’s, Milltown Brothers, The Family Cat and The Telescopes were among the indie scene’s biggest names that year. Disc 2 revisits many of the bands who appeared on C88, with later singles or B-sides by The Stone Roses, Mock Turtles, Pooh Sticks, The Man From Delmonte, Bridewell Taxis, Popguns, etc. Sarah Records – which came to epitomise a certain type of Indie Pop – are represented by Brighter, The Orchids, Another Sunny Day and Christine’s Cat. Other key indie labels also figure, such as Creation (The Revolving Paint Dream), Bristol’s The Subway Organization (Korova Milk Bar, Choo Choo Train), Manchester’s Playtime (The Rainkings, New Fast Automatic Daffodils), Sheffield’s Native (Treebound Story, featuring Richard Hawley, and The Snapdragons), Brighton’s La-Di-Da (Daisycutters, Bobby Scarlet, How Many Beans Make Five, Said Liquidator) and Liverpool’s Pink Moon (Barbel, The DaVincis, Jactars).

C89 also includes two previously unissued tracks. New names to the series include The Bardots, The Seers, Po!, The Ammonites, The Ogdens, Kit, The Candy Darlings, Jane Pow, Rorschach, etc. Several names feature personnel from notable bands, such as post-Razorcuts act Red Chair Fadeaway, post-Chameleons quartet The Sun And The Moon and post-La’s combo The Onset. Numerous tracks have never been on CD before. The deluxe clamshell package includes a weighty booklet full of illustrations, with an 8,000-word sleeve-note and band-by-band biographies by C86 co-compiler Neil Taylor.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1:
1. COME IN COME OUT – The La’s
2. TOM VERLAINE – The Family Cat
3. WHICH WAY SHOULD I JUMP - Milltown Brothers
4. NOTHING - The Telescopes
5. INSIDE OUT - Brighter
6. LIONS – New Fast Automatic Daffodils
7. LET IT HAPPEN – Red Chair Fadeaway
8. DO IT AGAIN – Korova Milk Bar
9. ADAM’S SONG – The Sun And The Moon
10. WHITE PEARL - Bobby Scarlet
11. IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY – The Ogdens
12. FREEDOM TRIP - The Seers
13. THAT’S WHERE CAROLINE LIVES - The Candy Darlings
14. BREAK THE STRAIN – The Rainkings
15. CONFIDENCE - Po!
16. SAD ANNE - The Bardots
17. SUN AND MOON - The Onset
18. DAYS IN THE SUN – The Ammonites
19. CAPTAIN ELASTIC - Rorschach
20. ANOTHER FRIENDLY FACE – How Many Beans Make Five
21. COMMONPLACE - Hey Paulette
22. THAT’S MY GIRL - Jane Pow
23. CHEATIN' MY HEART - Kit
24. SHERIFF FATMAN - Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

Disc 2:
1. GOING DOWN – The Stone Roses
2. WAITING FOR THE WINTER – The Popguns
3. WICKER MAN – The Mock Turtles
4. WHAT WILL WE DO NEXT? - The Orchids
5. MY LOVE IS LIKE A GIFT YOU CAN'T RETURN – The Man From Delmonte
6. GREEN SEA BLUE – The Revolving Paint Dream
7. I KNOW SOMEONE WHO KNOWS SOMEONE WHO KNOWS ALAN McGEE QUITE WELL - The Pooh Sticks
8. JUST GOOD FRIENDS – Bridewell Taxis
9. YOU SHOULD ALL BE MURDERED – Another Sunny Day
10. DOCTOR GOOD AND HIS INCREDIBLE LIFE SAVING SOAP - The Driscolls
11. HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU REALLY FEEL?- The Charlottes
12. SWIMMING IN THE HEART OF JANE - Treebound Story
13. FINGERDIPS - The Prayers
14. DOLE BOYS ON FUTONS – The Snapdragons
15. ONE THING - Barbel
16. BRIAR ROSE - Choo Choo Train
17. SKYRIDER - Holidaymakers
18. IT’S UP TO YOU - Fallover 24 (previously Unissued)
19. BISCUITS IN A TIN - Thrilled Skinny
20. A MILLION MILES - Brian
21. PLASTIC BAG FROM TESCOS – The Wilderness Children
22. 10,000 MILES - The Moss Poles (previously Unissued)
23. FISHERMAN’S FRIEND – The Haywains
24. BOMBS AWAY ON HARPURHEY – King Of The Slums

Disc 3:
1. PICKING UP THE BITTER
LITTLE PIECES - The Claim
2. SWALLOW - A Riot Of Colour
3. FRIENDS - Daisycutters
4. TONY HADLEY – Peruvian Hipsters
5. THIS BIG LOVE – The Cherry Orchard
6. WELCOME – Ambitious Beggars
7. THOMAS WOLFE – The DaVincis
8. BIG CAR - Avo-8
9. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN TOWN - The Becketts
10. BUBBLE BUS - Sunflowers
11. PASSION – The Magnificent Lkage
12. TELL ME NOW – Strawberry Story
13. WHEREVER I GO (DEMO) – Newsflash
14. ALL YOU EVER SAY – The Mayfields
15. BURN YOUR BOOKS & JOIN MY LIFE – The Ruth Ellis Swing Band
16. YOUR LOVE IS… - Christine’s Cat
17. SAY WHAT YOU FEEL – Said Liquidator
18. ANNABEL LEE – Jane From Occupied Europe
19. SUN STILL SHINES – Big Red Bus
20. THE COLDEST WATER – Men Of Westenesse
21. MR. WATT SAID – The Church Grims
22. PULL THE PLUG - Jactars
23. SURFING DAYS – Me And Dean Martin
24. SEVEN RED APPLES – The Rain

London post-punk band the monochrome set’s third album “eligible bachelors” re-issued, complete with a huge amount of bonus tracks and additional hard to find material. Contains the original “eligible bachelors” album, the live album “fin” (aka the good life), singles and b-sides, rarities and bbc sessions, plus a number of lead singer and songwriter bid’s solo tracks. 3cds packed with some of the monochrome set’s finest music. All material digitally remastered for this new re-issue. The monochrome set were widely recognised as one of the best post-punk bands of the late ‘70s and ‘80s, with the album “eligible bachelors” regarded as one of their finest pieces of work. Allmusic named it as “one of the classic undiscovered albums of the early ‘80s. Eligible bachelors is a tour de force of wit and musical imagination” as well as “an age-defining record”, with trouser press praising the band for their “witty intelligence” and declaring that ‘eligible bachelors’ “strips the music down to essential elements”. Cherry red have paid “eligible bachelors” the respect it deserves by carefully packaging the album alongside the monochrome set’s fine live album “fin” (aka the good life), and a whole host of singles, b-sides and rarities. All this has been remastered and beautifully packaged for the album’s re-issue.

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1. The Jet Set Junta
2. I'll Cry Instead
3. On The 13th Day
4. Cloud 10
5. The Mating Game
6. March Of The Eligible Bachelors
7. The Devil Rides Out
8. Fun For All The Family
9. The Midas Touch
10. The Ruling Class
11. The Great Barrier Riff
12. He's Frank
13. Alphaville
14. Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
15. Lester Leaps In
16. The Monochrome Set
17. Mr. Bizarro
18. He's Frank (Slight Return)
19. Silicon Carne
20. Fallout
21. Ten Don'ts For Honeymooners
22. Straits Of Malacca
23. J.D.H.A.N.E.Y.
24. Cast A Long Shadow
25. The Bridge
26. The Jet Set Junta

Disc: 2
1. Love Goes Down The Drain
2. Noise (Eine Kleine Symphonie)
3. Espresso
4. Fat Fun
5. Ici Les Enfants
6. Martians Go Home
7. Fallout
8. Goodbye Joe
9. Strange Boutique
10. Viva Death Row
11. 405 Lines
12. Love Zombies
13. The Man With The Black Moustache
14. Fun For All The Family
15. The Ruling Class
16. Avanti
17. Yo, Ho, Ho And Three Bottles Of Wine
18. Andiamo
19. Cowboy Country
20. Jacob’s Ladder
21. Inside Your Heart
22. White Noise
23. We Are Zarbie
24. I Don't Know
25. Flesh/Trash/Heat
26. Private Dick
27. It's More Than Just Love

Disc: 3
1. He's Frank
2. Martians Go Home
3. Straits Of Malacca
4. Sugar Plum
5. B-I-D Spells Bid
6. Alphaville
7. Heaven Can Wait
8. Goodbye Joe
9. The Strange Boutique
10. The Strange Boutique (Reprise)
11. Jacob's Ladder
12. Wallflower
13. Apocalypso
14. Mr. Bizarro
15. I'll Scry Instead
16. Espresso
17. 405 Lines
18. Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
19. The Monochrome Set
20. Up (1986 Demo)
21. Reach For Your Gun
22. Love
23. Sweet Chariots

Anyone who’s been living on the grapevine these past few years must have heard the rumours about the coming of the FELT reissues – well they’re here.

During the ‘80s Felt made ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels. This beautifully produced series examines the work of one of the greatest underground groups of modern times. These records, unavailable for many years, have been remastered and revisited by Lawrence, and he has fashioned the ultimate definitive collections.

Before the Stone Roses and after Be-Bop Deluxe and Plastic Ono Band, John Leckie worked with Felt. Booked into a metal/reggae studio in Birmingham’s industrial wasteland he sculpted a Michelangelo slice of new rock – exquisite and beautiful guitar odysseys – quite unlike anything the city had experienced before. Merging pop with a classical nuance Felt stood alone as the forerunners of a brand new style. And Gary Ainge was finally allowed to use his high-hat!

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. Roman Litter
2. Sempiternal Darkness
3. Spanish House
4. Imprint
5. Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow
6. Vasco Da Gama
7. Crucifix Heaven
8. Dismantled King Is Off The Throne
9. Crystal Ball
10. Whirlpool Vision Of Shame 

Bonus 7" (Comes With Deluxe CD)
1. Penelope Tree
2. A Preacher In New England 

Anyone who’s been living on the grapevine these past few years must have heard the rumours about the coming of the FELT reissues – well they’re here.

During the ‘80s Felt made ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels. This beautifully produced series examines the work of one of the greatest underground groups of modern times. These records, unavailable for many years, have been remastered and revisited by Lawrence, and he has fashioned the ultimate definitive collections.

Lawrence’s ambition was to release the best debut English album ever! Adrian Borland offered his services, then commitments with his band The Sound prevented this from happening. So Felt began a relationship with Swell Maps producer John A. Rivers. Recorded and mixed in six days the band got a taste of how bitter reality fares compared to the “mellow fruitfulness” of blind ambition.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. Evergreen Dazed - Felt
2. Fortune - Felt
3. Birdmen - Felt
4. Cathedral - Felt
5. I Worship The Sun - Felt
6. Templeroy – Felt

Bonus 7" (With CD Format)
1. Something Sends Me To Sleep - Felt
2. Something Sends Me To Sleep (Alternate Version) - Felt

Anyone who’s been living on the grapevine these past few years must have heard the rumours about the coming of the FELT reissues – well they’re here.

During the ‘80s Felt made ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels. This beautifully produced series examines the work of one of the greatest underground groups of modern times. These records, unavailable for many years, have been remastered and revisited by Lawrence, and he has fashioned the ultimate definitive collections.

Previously named Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death, this album is now retitled The Seventeenth Century – the original name for the album was changed late in the day. This reversal of misfortune was classed as an awful mistake and Lawrence’s biggest regret. Flash forward to now and this situation can finally be rectified. “You can’t change the title of an album” - they told him – so he said; “if Kraftwerk can and Bowie can then I can too!!”

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. Song For William S. Harvey
2. Ancient City Where I Lived
3. Seventeenth Century
4. The Palace
5. Indian Scriptures
6. The Nazca Plain
7. Jewel Sky
8. Viking Dress
9. Voyage To Illumination
10. Sapphire Mansions

Bonus 7" (Comes With Deluxe CD)
1. Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow
2. Sunlight Strings

Anyone who’s been living on the grapevine these past few years must have heard the rumours about the coming of the FELT reissues – well they’re here.

During the ‘80s Felt made ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels. This beautifully produced series examines the work of one of the greatest underground groups of modern times. These records, unavailable for many years, have been remastered and revisited by Lawrence, and he has fashioned the ultimate definitive collections.

Produced by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins and featuring the skyscraping vocal of Elizabeth Fraser on the mighty Primitive Painters. Felt found themselves at the top of the independent charts. Unhappy with the overall sound though – it was as if some of Lawrence’s best songs were lost in an “ethereal swirl.” John A. Rivers has been given access to the original master tapes and six songs have been remixed. Also – side 2 has been focused, edited and “made symmetrical.” Finally these songs can be heard as intended by Felt. It has become at long last a cohesive whole.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. My Darkest Light Will Shine (Remixed)
2. The Day The Rain Came Down (Remixed)
3. Scarlet Servants (Remixed)
4. I Don’t Know Which Way To Turn (Remixed)
5. Primitive Painters
6. Textile Ranch
7. Black Ship In The Harbour (Remixed)
8. Elegance In D
9. Caspian See (Remixed)
10. Southern State Tapestry

Bonus 7" (Comes With Deluxe CD)
1. Mexican Bandits
2. The World Is As Soft As Lace

Anyone who’s been living on the grapevine these past few years must have heard the rumours about the coming of the FELT reissues – well they’re here.

During the ‘80s Felt made ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels. This beautifully produced series examines the work of one of the greatest underground groups of modern times. These records, unavailable for many years, have been remastered and revisited by Lawrence, and he has fashioned the ultimate definitive collections.

Lawrence escapes the contours of a bland city and retreats into his mind. Felt had risen from the underworld searching for a new horizon but only managed to slip into a desolate obscurity! Dark black slabs of creosote guitar – vast swathes of epic interplay – casting futuristic Shadows – an idiosyncratic and unobtrusively brilliant band, the music Felt made on this album is unlike anything attempted before. This really is a template for an age yet to come. And it pays to know that Maurice Deebank now resides in a monastery in Birmingham!

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. Red Indians - Felt
2. The World Is As Soft As Lace - Felt
3. The Optimist And The Poet - Felt
4. Mexican Bandits - Felt
5. The Stagnant Pool - Felt
6. A Preacher In New England - Felt

Bonus 7" (With Deluxe CD Format)
1. Trails Of Colour Dissolve - Felt
2. My Face Is On Fire - Felt

Extensive 5CD/book set exploring the ‘second wave’ of music on Merseyside, from 1976-1988 Features classics, rarities, album tracks and previously unreleased gems from Echo And The Bunnymen, Teardrop Explodes, OMD, The La’s, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Dead Or Alive, China Crisis, A Flock Of Seagulls, Wild Swans, Big In Japan and many more. 5CD + 56pp A5 book format contains many artists’ own sleeve-notes, previously unseen photographs and essays from key observers and participants in the city’s music scene - Bernie Connor, Mike Badger, Yorkie and Joe McKechnie. Curated and designed by the people who brought you Scared To Get Happy, Still In A Dream, Manchester – North Of England, Silhouettes And Statues and many more extensive box sets. A remarkable journey through the music of a generation inspired and enabled by punk rock to step out from behind the shadow to the Fab Four. Packed with first-hand artist sleeve-notes, insightful essays, imagery and brilliant, essential music, this is a story long in need of telling…

Liverpool in the 1970s…. The Beatles had gone, but the expectations remained. It took many years until, with the arrival of punk rock, the city’s tunesmiths were able to regroup and usher in a new generation of musical innovation which would form the backbone of the UK’s music scene throughout the 1980s. From Eric’s to the top of the charts, the city found its feet and once again became the epicentre of cool. Revolutionary Spirit charts the rise of Liverpool and its music in the latter half of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s, from Deaf School and Spitfire Boys, via Zoo Records and Probe Plus, and onto the chart successes of Frankie, OMD, the Bunnymen and many others. Featuring cornerstone contributions from the city’s brightest stars - Bill Drummond, Holly Johnson, Ian Broudie, Pete Burns, Ian McCulloch, Julian Cope, Lee Mavers and co – and many more lesser-known legends, this is the unique tale of a city trying to find itself with the world watching – and succeeding.

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1
1. WHAT A WAY TO END IT ALL – Deaf School
2. BIG IN JAPAN - Big In Japan
3. SUFFICE TO SAY – Yachts
4. THE PICTURES ON MY WALL - Echo And The Bunnymen
5. LIL’S GONE TO PARIS – Ded Byrds **
6. BREAKTHROUGH IN GREY ROOM - 0-51 **
7. TODAY'S MYSTERY IS... - The Dance Party **
8. SLEEPING GAS - The Teardrop Explodes
9. FACTION-Faction
10. TOUCH – Lori And The Chameleons
11. BLACK LEATHER - Nightmares In Wax
12. BUNKER SOLDIERS - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
13. 194 RADIO CITY – Jaqui & Jeanette
14. LONELY EVENING – Clive Langer And The Boxes
15. MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT – Glass Torpedoes
16. COULD THIS BE HEAVEN – Original Mirrors
17. HEADS I WIN – The Moondogs
18. BREAK IT TO ME GENTLY – The Planets
19. DO THE CHUD – The Chuddy Nuddies
20. BRITISH REFUGEE – Spitfire Boys
21. THE DOCTOR - Geisha Girls 22. DON'T STOP THE WORLD – Deaf School

DISC 2
1. DALEK I LOVE YOU (DESTINY) – Dalek I
2. TELECOMMUNICATION - A Flock Of Seagulls
3. WHEN I DREAM - The Teardrop Explodes
4. HIT THE MOON - Ellery Bop
5. NUCLEAR SUMMER – The Nice Men
6. HUMAN FEATURES – Black
7. TOTAL RECALL – Systems
8. TOUCH - Freeze Frame
9. SUPERMAN – Attempted Moustache
10. INTERCONTINENTAL – Afraid Of Mice
11. RESCUE – Echo And The Bunnymen
12. PIGGIE IN THE MIDDLE EIGHT – Cook The Books
13. CREATION REBEL – Windows
14. MY MOTIVE – Chinese Religion
15. TOO LATE TO FLY THE FLAG - Hambi And The Dance
16. SOLDIERS - Egypt For Now
17. DOWN AT THE ZOO - Those Naughty Lumps
18. EUTHENICS – Modern Eon
19. LAUNDERETTE – A Formal Sigh **
20. NIGHTLIFE - The Moderates **

DISC 3
1. REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT (STEREO MIX) – Wild Swans
2. AFRICAN AND WHITE – China Crisis
3. DON'T LET GO – Pink Industry
4. OBSESSIONS - Passion Polka
5. I'M THINKING OF YOU NOW – Box Of Toys
6. FLAMING SWORD – Care
7. DORIAN GRAY – The Bamboo Fringe
8. SHE'S LOCKED MY LIFE UP IN HER SUITCASE – Steve Lindsey
9. OCEANIC EXPLORERS – Ex Post Facto
10. SOME ASPECTS - Chain Of Command
11. HE'S DEAD ALRIGHT – Ambrose Reynolds
12. ART ON 45 – Royal Family And The Poor
13. THEMES FOR 'GRIND' SCENE V - Will Sergeant
14. THROUGH THE GLASS - Shiny Two Shiny
15. BIRDS FLY (WHISPER TO A SCREAM) – Icicle Works
16. A GIGANTIC RAFT IN THE PHILIPPINES - It's Immaterial
17. TOXTETH - Public Disgrace
18. PLAYING FOR TIME – Send No Flowers
19. THINGS HAVE LEARNT TO WALK THAT OUGHT TO CRAWL – The Room
20. SHE KEEPS HER SECRET - The Balcony (Mk I)
21. BURST BALLOONS - The Turquoise Swimming Pools

DISC 4
1. TWO TRIBES – Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2. REASONS TO LIVE – Mr Amir
3. EVERY DAY ANOTHER DREAM - Brenda And The Beach Balls
4. THE FIRST PICTURE OF YOU – The Lotus Eaters
5. MISTY CIRCLES – Dead Or Alive
6. ARE YOU READY FOR THAT FEELING? – Virgin Dance
7. VALLEY OF EVERGREEN - Alternative Radio
8. JIMMY'SGRIN–Margox
9. - KARDOMAH CAFÉ (2017 MIX) – The Cherry Boys
10. CONTRASTING STRANGERS – The Light
11. JEAN'S NOT HAPPENING – Pale Fountains
12. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE – The Balcony (MK II) **
13. WORKING FOR THE MAN – The High Five
14. JAMES WHERE ARE YOU NOW? – The Press Gang
15. MY WAR – Western Promise
16. DON'T CRY DARLING (DADDY HAD TO DROWN THE CAT) - Old Ma Cuxsom And The Soapchoppers
17. HAPPEN - The Rioutous Hues
18. BOMB SUTRA - Mel-O-Tones
19. HELL - Marshmallow Overcoat

DISC 5
1. ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID – Jegsy Dodd And The Sons Of Harry Cross ‎
2. GET DOWN OVER - The La's
3. HIP AND HER CHEEK ELECTRIC (DEMO) – Barbel
4. A TRICK OF FATE – Magic Carpets
5. DEVIL LAUGHING – Benny Profane
6. THE TALLEST MAN – Jactars
7. DIDN’T WE HAVE A NICE TIME? (AND ALL MY FRIENDS ARE HERE) - The Tempest
8. PRECIOUS LOVE – The Onset
9. PAT NEVIN'S EYES – The Tractors
10. DANCE - Cyclic Amp
11. WHEN YOU'RE IN - The DaVincis
12. WAY OUT - The La's
13. TANTRIC WIPEOUT – The Walking Seeds
14. BURNIN' AND LOOTIN' – Ministry Of Love
15. BIG BAD MONEY WORLD – A Game Of Soldiers
16. ONLY IN AMERICA - Exhibit B
17. SONS OF - Thomas Lang
18.COME HOLY SPIRIT- Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus 

The Fall is an English post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976. The band has existed in some form ever since, and is essentially built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith. Initially associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music has gone through several stylistic changes over the years, characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and is always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics. The band is noted for its prolific output: as of autumn 2017 they have released over 32 studio albums, and more than triple that counting live albums and other releases. This collection features all the A-sides recorded across a multitude of labels: Step Forward, Rough Trade, Kamera, Beggars Banquet, Cog Sinister, Permanent, Artful, Action… oh, and Cherry Red! We got the lot!

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1. Bingo-Master
2. It's The New Thing
3. Rowche Rumble
4. Fiery Jack
5. How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
6. Totally Wired
7. Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul
8. Look, Know
9. The Man Whose Head Expanded
10. Kicker Conspiracy
11. Marquis Cha-Chaâ
12. Oh! Brother
13. C.R.E.E.P.
14. Draygo's Guilt
15. Couldn't Get Ahead
16. Cruiser's Creek

Disc: 2
1. Living Too Late
2. Mr. Pharmacist
3. Hey! Luciani
4. There's A Ghost In My House
5. Hit The North Part 1
6. Victoria
7. Jerusalem
8. Cab It Up
9. Telephone Thing
10. Popcorn Double Feature
11. White Lightning
12. High Tension Line
13. Free Range
14. Ed's Babe
15. Why Are People Grudgeful?
16. Behind The Counter
17. 15 Ways
18. The Chiselers

Disc: 3
1. Masquerade
2. Touch Sensitive
3. F-'Oldin' Money
4. Rude (All The Time)
5. Susan Vs Youthclub
6. (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas
7. Theme From Sparta F.C. #2
8. Distilled Mug Art (Mix 15)
9. I Can Hear The Grass Grow
10. Reformation! (Uncut)
11. Slippy Floor (Mark Mix)
12. Bury! #2+4
13. Laptop Dog
14. Victrola Time
15. Sir William Wray (Single Mix)
16. The Remainderer
17. Wise Ol Man

Having played with The Servants in the late 1980s, Luke Haines carved a unique niche for himself in the 1990s with witty lyrics, wry humour and some stellar tunes with The Auteurs and other acts (Black Box Recorder, Baader Meinhof).

By 1999, feeling aghast at the state of the Brit Rock scene in the UK, Luke decided to “start a righteous solo trip”, having been commissioned to write the soundtrack for the film Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (2001). Sticking with Virgin Records, Luke then unveiled his first solo album proper, The Oliver Twist Manifesto, before fronting a new-look Auteurs for Das Capital.

In due course, Luke switched labels to indie Fantastic Plastic for Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop (2006), followed in 2009 by 21st Century Man. Since then, he’s curated a string of imaginative, amusing and always worthwhile albums for Cherry Red Records.

Alive And Well… is the first-ever anthology of Luke’s solo work, cherry-picking musical highlights from each of his long players as well as a smattering of B-sides, radio sessions, rarities and – on Disc 4 – a raft of previously unissued material.

With sleeve-notes by Luke himself, Alive And Well… is a very personal statement spanning the last two decades of the musical life of Luke Haines.

Fronted as ever by David Thomas, Pere Ubu unveil their new album, 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo, which opens the doors of the avant-garage to reveal the hardworking mechanics hammering away at the fundamentals of blue-collar rock.

A three-guitar revision sees Keith Moliné, Gary Siperko and Kristof Hahn (The Swans) expand the established orchestra of analog and digital synths (Wheeler, Gagarin), clarinet (Boon), drums (Mehlman) and Thomas’ unique vocals.
20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo follows their 2015 release Carnival of Souls, which was widely praised by the media and used by cult series 'American Horror Story' in Season 4.

David Thomas: “The new album is The James Gang teaming up with Tangerine Dream. The Chinese Whispers methodology we worked on the last two albums has been replaced by the Dark Room. Put musicians in a lightless room and by feeling one small section of an unknown object have them figure what it must be.”

The album was recorded and mixed at Suma, Painesville Ohio. Engineer Paul Hamann, and his father before him, have been part of almost every Pere Ubu album since 1976.

• July 2017 sees the new album by the Fall – their first since Sub Lingual Tablet in 2015 – containing 11 new tracks recorded at various studios in the UK and produced in conjunction with Mark E Smith.

• The band, now in their 41st year, have proven a major influence to many a band in both the UK and around the world (bands such as Pavement, Hole and even Faith No More).

• New Facts Emerge is their third studio album for Cherry Red and adds to the list of over 100 live and studio albums released by the band over the years.

• Formed in 1976 by Mark E Smith, the band has gone through numerous line ups but retain a consistency that many other bands would envy.

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1
1. SEGUE - THE FALL
2. FOL DE ROL - THE FALL
3. BRILLO DE FACTO - THE FALL
4. VICTORIA TRAIN STATION MASSACRE - THE FALL
5. NEW FACTS EMERGE - THE FALL
6. COUPLE VS JOBLESS MID 30'S - THE FALL

DISC 2
1. SECOND HOUSE NOW - THE FALL
2. O! ZZTRRK MAN - THE FALL
3. GIBBUS GIBSON - THE FALL
4. GROUNDSBOY AND THE TWO AMENDMENTS - THE FALL
5. NINE OUT OF TEN - THE FALL

C88 is another celebration of the Eighties Indie scene, documenting a golden era when tuneful guitar-based bands made records on shoestring budgets, often issued on small labels with hand-made artwork, with little hope of mainstream exposure. This 3-CD box set follows previous best-selling collections C86 (2014) and C87 (2016). C86 expanded the NME’s genre-defining compilation (initially a cassette, later a vinyl LP on Rough Trade) with 50 extra tracks from the period. C87 was an imaginary sequel, picking up the story a year later.

Disc 1 is devoted to artists who haven’t previously graced this series, who – for the most part – first made an impact in 1988. The Stone Roses, Carter USM, Pale Saints and The Mock Turtles would all enjoy mainstream success. Others like The Pooh Sticks, The Man From Delmonte, Bridewell Taxis were cult indie favourites. Sarah Records – which came to epitomise a certain type of Indie Pop – are represented by The Orchids, Another Sunny Day, The Sea Urchins and The Poppyheads (whose ‘Cremation Town’ debuts on CD here). Other key indie labels also figure, such as Creation (Apple Boutique, Pacific, The House Of Love, Emily), 53rd & 3rd (The Groovy Little Numbers, The Vaselines) and The Subway Organization (The Clouds, Rodney Allen, The Flatmates, Bubblegum Splash, etc.).

The deluxe clamshell package includes a weighty booklet full of illustrations, with an 9,000-word sleeve-note and band-by-band biographies by C86 co-compiler Neil Taylor.

TRACK LISTING

Disc One:
1. On Tape – The Pooh Sticks
2. Elephant Stone (7” Version) – The Stone Roses
3. Where Do You Go (Flexi Version) – The Popguns
4. (Will Nobody Save) Louise – The Man From Delmonte
5. Are You Happy Now? (Molesworth Version) - The Charlottes
6. The Things You Want – The Snapdragons
7. One Summer – Moss Poles
8. Lies – Bridewell Taxis
9. Defy The Law – The Orchids
10. Happy Like Yesterday – The Groovy Little Numbers
11. Julie Christie – The Driscolls
12. High – Choo Choo Train
13. Cremation Town – The Poppyheads
14. Tattered, Tangled And Torn - Bradford
15. So Happy To Be Alive – Thrilled Skinny
16. Sister Goodbye – The Prayers
17. Anorak City – Another Sunny Day
18. She’s Gone – The Train Set
19. Barnoon Hill – Pacific
20. Forever Holiday (Ediesta Version) – Blow-Up
21. Mary’s Garden – The Mock Turtles
22. The Pennine Spitter – King Of The Slums
23. Colours And Shapes (Demo) – Pale Saints
24. The Ballad Of Jet Harris – Apple Boutique

Disc Two:
1. The Hill – The House Of Love
2. Dying For It – The Vaselines
3. Kirsty – Bob
4. Slack Time – Cud
5. Please Rain Fall – The Sea Urchins
6. Shame On You – The Darling Buds
7. Prize – Kitchens Of Distinction
8. Too Many Shadows– The Heart Throbs
9. Do It For Fun – The Bachelor Pad
10. They Fell For Words Like Love – Hangman’s Beautiful Daughters
11. Giving Way To Trains – Murrumbidgee Whalers
12. What’s Going Down – The Shamen
13. Heaven Knows – The Flatmates
14. Spell It Out – The Waltones
15. Mrs Susan Spence – The Wilderness Children
16. Yesterday – The Nivens
17. Real World – Baby Lemonade
18. Village Green – The Clouds
19. Fire Escape – Rote Kapelle
20. Mad Dogs – Emily
21. The 18:10 To Yeovil Junction – Bubblegum Splash
22. Michael Furey – Metro Trinity
23. Theme From Cow – Inspiral Carpets Disc

Three:
1. Sun, Sea, Sand – The Revolving Paint Dream
2. Surfaround – The Fizzbombs
3. Plaster Saint – The Church Grims
4. Crush The Flowers (Demo) – The Wake
5. Sunshine Thuggery – The Siddeleys
6. Clear - Whirl
7. A Million Zillion Miles - Annie & The Aeroplanes
8. You Opened Up My Eyes - Fat Tulips
9. Cincinnati – Holidaymakers
10. The Camera Loves Me – Would-Be-Goods
11. Anywhere But Home – The Caretaker Race
12. Who Works The Weather – The Great Leap Forward
13. Cubans In The Bluefields – East Village
14. Bythesea Road – The Haywains
15. The Old Road Out Of Town (12” Mix) – The Wishing Stones
16. Shake – The Corn Dollies
17. Land Of Gold – Bluetrain
18. The Sun Slid Down Behind The Tower – Reserve
19. Apple Of My Eye - Remember Fun
20. Morning O’grady - Yeah Jazz
21. Don't Bury Me Yet – The Raw Herbs
22. Curry Crazy - Bad Dream Fancy Dress
23. On My Way – The Claim
24. Glastonbury - Rodney Allen

Cherry Red Records are pleased to announce the release of the new album by the legendary Hawkwind, Into The Woods. It follows the critical acclaim and commercial success of last year’s Top 40 album The Machine Stops. “Part of this album is a continuation of the story begun in The Machine Stops,” says Hawkwind’s head honcho Dave Brock, “living above the ground and Into the Woods.” Warm-up dates for Hawkwind in mid-March are dubbed ‘A Glimpse Into Greenness’, which gives some indication of the conceptual and lyrical themes behind the new album.

TRACK LISTING

1. Into The Woods
2. Cottage In The Woods
3. The Woodpecker
4. Have You Seen Them
5. Ascent
6. Space Ship Blues
7. The Wind
8. Vegan Lunch
9. Magic Scenes
10. Darkland
11. Wood Nymph
12. Deep Cavern
13. Magic Mushroom

Since the dawn of time, psychobilly originators and figureheads The Meteors have set the standard for the angry blend of rockabilly, punk and dirty sci-fi horror blues that continues to find new fans around the world. Beloved of bikers, punks, rockabillies, goths, rockers, cowgirls and indie boys alike for over thirty years, the gaggle of pissed off boys who emerged from a succession of London rockabilly bands as the grim 70s lurched into the 80s has slowly mutated into a worldwide phenomenon, legends in their own lifetime and Godfathers of a scene that refused to die.

5 Albums originally released in 1984-1988,plus bonus tracks - single mixes and b-sides. LP sleeve replica wallets. Booklet contains sleevenotes, relevant single sleeve packshots etc

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1. Ex-Men Boogie
2. Power Of Steel
3. Hoover Rock
4. Kit Boy
5. Eat The Baby
6. Maybe Tomorrow
7. Electro
8. Stampede
9. I'm Just A Dog
10. In Too Deep
11. Cecil Drives A Combine Harvester
12. Michael Myers
13. Out Of The Dark
14. Only A Fury In My Heart
15. I'm Just A Dog (Wild Hog Remix)
16. Stampede (Kingraybatscalatinthe Dark MIX)
17. Fire, Fire
18. Little Red Riding Hood 1

Disc: 2
1. Do The (Demolition)
2. Hogs And Cuties
3. Alligator Man
4. Rhythm Of The Bell 1
5. Out Of Time
6. Ain't Gonna Bring Me Down
7. Night Of The Werewolf
8. Take A Ride
9. Just The Three Of Us
10. Meat Is Meat
11. Sweet Love On My Mind
12. Joba's Snake
13. Bad Moon Rising
14. Rhythm Of The Bell 2
15. Hogs And Cuties (12" MIX)

Disc: 3
1. Ain't Taking A Chance
2. So Sad
3. Here's Johnny
4. Mind Over Matter
5. Acid And Psyam
6. Sewertime Blues
7. Return Of Ethel Merman
8. Deep Dark Jungle
9. Never Get Away
10. I Bury The Living
11. Vibrate
12. Surf City
13. The Edge (12" MIX)

Disc: 4
1. Go Buddy Go
2. Midnight People
3. Low Livin' Daddy
4. Your Worst Nightmare
5. Wildkat Ways
6. Repo Man
7. Don't Touch The Bang Bang Fruit
8. Crack Me Up
9. Shakey Snakey
10. Psycho Kat
11. Let's Go
12. Revenge Of El Trio Los Bastardos
13. Go Buddy Go (Wonkey Donkey MIX)
14. Don't Touch The Bang Bang Fruit (Manky Monkey MIX)
15. Dateless Nights
16. Corpse Grinder

Disc: 5
1. Swamp Thing
2. Electro11: The Revenge
3. Sidewalk Psycho
4. I'm Invisible Man
5. She's My Baby Again
6. Surfin' On Planet Zorch
7. Spine Bender
8. Dance Crazy Baby
9. Rawhide
10. Oxygen Dog
11. Yellow Zone
12. Meet Me At The Morgue
13. Little Red Riding Hood 2

Inspired by the likes of Slowdive and Ride, Chapterhouse were part of the short-lived 'shoe-gazing' scene of the early 90's, but unlike other acts who aquired a set of guitar pedals and headed off to the nearest recording studio, they mixed beats with their wall-of-sonic-guitar-fuzz to create records to stimulate both mind and feet!

This newly expanded reissue of their classic debut“Whirpool”, now includes all the B-sides from the singles 'Pearl', 'Falling Down' and the 'Sunburst EP', along with 'Die Die Die' which was originally only available on a free record that came with the vinyl version of the album and is on CD for the first time. Produced by the band alongside Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), John Fryer (This Mortal Coil), Stephen Hague (New Order) and Ralph Jezzard, and featuring guest vocals from Rachel Goswell (Slowdive). The liner notes are from music journalist and long-time associate Andrew Perry, along with the lyrics in full (documented here for the first time), plus many photos, memorabilia and other clippings from the bands personal archive, and images of all of the releases featured on the album.

Two years in the making, Close To The Noise Floor is a 4CD, 61-track set exploring the origins of electronica in the UK. Featuring tracks from key figures on the cassette label underground alongside early releases by future stars of the movement, this is part primitive rave, part synthesiser porn & part history lesson. Enthralled by the mysterious electronics of Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Gong & German Kosmische artists such as Tangerine Dream, Harmonia & Cluster, & inspired by the DIY ethos of punk, a quiet revolution took place across the UK in the late 70s & early 80s. The rise of the microchip & the advent of affordable synthesisers enabled countless artists for whom guitars, drums & bass had become old hat, & in grubby bedsits, unremarkable living rooms & art school halls across the British Isles, UK electronica was born.

Exploring every corner of this fascinating & often overlooked chapter in musical history. For proto synth-pop look no further than 100% Manmade Fibre & Spoon Fazer, whilst British Standard Unit & Five Times Of Dust lay out techno templates which wouldn’t take full form until many years later. Elsewhere, the synthesiser laden ambient music of Zorch & the found sound collages of A Tent sit comfortably alongside early forays by familiar names – Blancmange, The Human League, OMD & Throbbing Gristle – in over four hours of futurist, entirely modern music.

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1. Computer Bank - Five Times Of Dust
2. R.A.M. - The Klingons
3. Re-Education Through Labour - Chris And Cosey
4. Sedation Strokes - Malcolm Brown
5. Little Bob Minor - Storm Bugs
6. Tight As A Drum - Thomas Leer
7. Holiday Camp - Blancmange
8. Fractured Smile - Inner City Static
9. Sexuality - We Be Echo
10. God With Us - Bourbonese Qualk
11. Faith - Nagamatzu
12. Disco Song - O Yuki Conjugate
13. Optimum Chant - British Electric Foundation
14. All Night Long - Kevin Harrison
15. Stopping And Starting - Voice Of Authority

Disc: 2
1. I Am Your Shadow - Colin Potter
2. D'ya Think I'm Sexy - British Standard Unit
3. The Single Off The Album - Five Times Of Dust
4. Back To Beginning - Spöön Fazer
5. Gerry And The Holograms - Gerry & The Holograms
6. Drugface - The Passage
7. A New Kind Of Man - John Foxx
8. Green For Go - 100% Manmade Fibre
9. Sentimental - Those Little Aliens
10. Protect And Survive - Final Program
11. Being Boiled - The Human League
12. New Muzak - Instant Automatons
13. Materialistic Man - Cultural Amnesia
14. (Leaving Me) Now - Worldbackwards
15. Music To Save The World By - Alan Burnham
16. Almost - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
17. Kodak Ghosts Run Amok - Eyeless In Gaza
18. Broken Vein - Schleimer K
19. The Distance From Koln - Native Europe

Disc: 3
1. Adrenalin (Return Of The Elohim Pt 1) - Zorch
2. Robot Dance - Sea Of Wires
3. Sea Of Tranquility - Ron Berry
4. Mistral - MFH
5. Joe Goes To New York - Adrian Smith
6. Embryo (Extract) - Mark Shreeve
7. Tripych - EG Oblique Graph
8. Encounter - Carl Matthews
9. Ynys Scaith - Paul Nagle
10. Sedation - O Yuki Conjugate
11. Western Vein - Konstruktivist
12. Dead Of Night (Excerpt) - Attrition

Disc: 4
1. What A Day - Throbbing Gristle
2. No Way Of Knowing - A Tent
3. Go For The Throat - Portion Control
4. Eco Beat - DC3
5. Dying Inside - Renaldo & The Loaf
6. In The Army - Blah Blah Blah
7. God Speed - Legendary Pink Dots
8. Muslin Gauze Muslim Prayer - Muslimgauze
9. Live At Longborne - Suisse
10. Menial Disorders, Extract B2 - Alien Brains
11. Himeal (And She Blew) - Storm Bugs
12. In The Room - Third Door From The Left
13. Dignity Of Labour - Al Robertson
14. Mzui (Extract) - BC Gilbert, G Lewis & Russell Mills

Cherry Red Records are pleased to announce the release of the new album by the legendary Hawkwind, 'The Machine Stops'. A concept studio album and a live stage show, The Machine Stops is based on EM Forster's sci-fi classic. His dystopian vision of the future is brought to life with characteristic Hawkwind style.

An atmospheric, musical interpretation beginning in tunnels deep beneath the earth, where every need is controlled and catered for by the machine. The struggle to escape and find a way to reach the outer surface is a utopian dream, which could prove to be the most deadly dream of all. Forster's visionary masterpiece provides a chilling warning of the dangers of isolation, reliance on computer technology and the effects upon society.

This 7 track EP features new tracks, remixes and alternate takes of songs from last year’s Sub-Lingual Tablet LP along with a reworking of ‘’No Xmas For John Quays.

TRACK LISTING

1: Wise Ol' Man (Edit)
2: All Leave Cancelled
3: Dedication (Remix)
4: Wise Ol' Man (Instrumental)
5: Venice With Girls
6: Face Book Troll / No Xmas For John Quay
7: All Leave Cancelled (X)

“Shoegaze” was a term invented circa 1990 to describe a new breed on UK Indie guitar bands inspired by the likes of 4AD Records, My Bloody Valentine and US acts like Sonic Youth.

Bands like Ride, Moose, Lush, Pale Saints and The Telescopes married dreamy, off-kilter melodies, skewed, heavily effects-laden guitar riffs and psychedelic production values.

Although “Shoegaze” was initially a somewhat derogatory term to pigeonhole a clutch of new acts, the term quickly evolved to become an accepted genre of music which has influenced successive generations of bands, especially those outside of the UK.

STILL IN A DREAM is the ultimate tribute to what was also called ‘The Scene That Celebrated Itself’! 

TRACK LISTING

CD
Disc: 1
1: Roller Coaster - The Jesus & Mary Chain
2: Cherry Coloured Funk - The Cocteau Twins
3: Christine - The House Of Love
4: Baby Milk Snatcher - A.R.Kane
5: Mercy Seat (12" Version) - Ultra Vivid Scene
6: Hypnotized - Spaceman 3
7: Arc Lite (Sonar) - Loop
8: Surfacer - 14 Iced Bears
9: Tugboat - Galaxie 500
10: Puppet Clouds - The Prayers
11: The 3 Rd Time We Opened The Capsule - Kitchens Of Distinction
12: Girls Have Gone Missing - A.C.Marias
13: Precious Little - The Telescopes
14: Sight Of You - Pale Saints
15: Ocean Run Dry - Jane From Occupied Europe
16: Angel - Sonic Boom

Disc: 2
1: Drive Blind - Ride
2: De Luxe - Lush
3: Slip So Slow - See See Rider
4: Crystal Eyes - Nightblooms
5: Waiting For The Angels - The Darkside
6: I Don't Care If You Go - Velocity Girl
7: Inescapable - Cranes
8: Falling Down - Chapterhouse
9: Switchblade Smile - Whipping Boy
10: Kaleidoscope - The Boo Radleys
11: Rave Down - Swervedriver
12: Slowdive - Slowdive
13: Liar - The Charlottes
14: Sugarblast - Dr.Phibes &The House Of Wax Equations
15: Decadence - Bleach
16: She's My Friend (Wilde Club Version) - Catherine Wheel
17: Somersault Sunrise - Blow-Up
18: All Different Things - Bark Psychosis

Disc: 3
1: Ten Little Grls - Curve
2: Godlike - The Dylans
3: Gorgeous Blue Flower In My Garden - Th' Faith Healers
4: February Fourteenth - The Lilys
5: Good Afternoon - The Honey Smugglers
6: Chlorine Dream - Spirea X
7: Gravity - Moonshake
8: Translucent - Spitfire
9: Suzanne - Moose
10: Run - Spiritualised
11: Heaven Sent An Angel - Revolver
12: June Wilson - Lowlife
13: Square Wave - The Ecstasy Of Saint Teresa
14: By Tomorrow - Black Tambourine
15: Explosion - Whipped Cream
16: My Deranged Heart - Smashing Orange
17: Gong - The Hinnies
18: Greek Love (Original 12") - Bang Bang Machine

Disc: 4
1: Closer - The Sunflowers
2: Mirrored - Drop
3: In Hollow (Lp Version) - The Belltower
4: Phonefreak Honey - Sweet Jesus
5: Sunshine Smile - Adorable
6: I Don't Mind - Sun Dial
7: Sugar Your Mind - Swallow
8: Winona - Drop Nineteens
9: Talkin' 'Bout The Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants To Live Forever - Flaming Lips
10: Aruca - Medicine
11: Charming Sister Kiss Me Dead - Coaltar Of The Deepers
12: Starhappy - The Honey Buzzards
13: Babysbreath - Loveliescrushing
14: No.1 Fan - Majesty Crush
15: The Car By The Side Of The Road - The Swirlies
16: Chemical Tester - Submarine
17: Shine - Bailter Space
18: True Love Will Find You Inthe End - Spectrum
19: Spooky Vibes - Blind Mr.Jones

Disc: 5
1: Memory - An April March
2: Soaring High - Flying Saucer Attack
3: Alive - Drugstore
4: Loveblind - Secret Shine
5: Bronx Cheer - Mercury Rev
6: Chelsea - The Curtain Society
7: Plainsong - Seefeel
8: Surround Sound - Spindrift
9: Miss Leader - Rollerscate Skinny
10: Die Easy - Bardo Pond
11: Dozen - Alison's Halo
12: The Last Unicorn - Swirl
13: Next To Nothing - Bowery Electric
14: Me Voy - Bethany Curve
15: Orange Creamsicle - Astrobrite
16: 23 Minutes In Brussels - Luna

LP
Side 1:
1. CHERRY-COLOURED FUNK – The Cocteau Twins
2. CHRISTINE – The House Of Love
3. HYPNOTIZED – Spacemen 3
4. PUPPET CLOUDS – The Prayers
5. SIGHT OF YOU – Pale Saints

Side 2:
1. PRECIOUS LITTLE – The Telescopes
2. DE-LUXE – Lush
3. CRYSTAL EYES – The Nightblooms
4. SLOWDIVE – Slowdive
5. LIAR – The Charlottes
6. SOMERSAULT SUNRISE – Blow-Up

Side 3:
1. GRAVITY – Moonshake
2. GONG – The Hinnies
3. CLOSER – The Sunflowers
4. MIRRORED – Drop
5. IN HOLLOW – The Belltower

SIDE 4:
1. PHONEFREAK HONEY – Sweet Jesus
2. I DON’T MIND – Sun Dial
3. LOVESLIESCRUSHING – Babysbreath
4. SURROUND SOUND – Spindrift
5. DOZEN – Alison’s Halo

80s indie stalwarts trading in politically energised guitar pop – a true treasure chest of hooks, riffs and leftist messages.

Excellent value and a must have for anybody with an interest in the 1980s’ British independent and alternative scenes or politically minded guitar pop.

McCarthy disbanded in 1990 and two of its members went on to form the wonderful Stereolab. Other members have gone on to work in popular music and the media, and the band often receive exposure from Manic Street Preachers, who regularly cite their work as both beloved and influential.

Albums packaged in mini LP replica wallets, and presented – along with a booklet - in a hard clamshell case.

Contains countless classic originals and classic live sessions versions.

75 tracks, including 3 indie top ten albums and several indie chart hit singles

Also includes 12 songs recorded for the legendary John Peel.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. AN MP SPEAKS
2. MONETARIES
3. THE INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS TRAFFIC
4. THE WAY OF THE WORLD
5. ANTINATURE
6. CHARLES WINDSOR
7. THE VISION OF PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE
8. THE WELL OF LONELINESS
9. THE WICKED PALACE REVOLUTION
10. GOD MADE THE VIRUS
11. THE FUNERAL
12. A CHILD SOON IN CHAINS
13. IN THE DARK TIMES
14. THE PROCESSION OF POPULAR CAPITALISM
15. IN PURGATORY
16. THE COMRADE ERA
17. SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE
18. RED SLEEPING BEAUTY
19. FROM THE DAMNED
20. THE ENEMY IS AT HOME
21. THE FALL
22. KILL KILL KILL KILL
23. BAD DREAMS
24. SOMEONE WORSE OFF
25. ANTIAMERICAN CRETIN
26. UNFORTUNATELY
27. THIS NELSON ROCKEFELLER

Disc 2
1. BOY MEETS GIRL SO WHAT
2. GOVERNING TAKES BRAINS
3. AN ADDRESS TO THE BETTER OFF
4. HANDS OFF OR DIE
5. WHAT OUR BOYS ARE FIGHTING FOR
6. KEEP AN OPEN MIND OR ELSE
7. WE ARE ALL BORN CREEPS
8. THE HOME SECRETARY BRIEFS THE FORCES OF LAW AND ORDER
9. I'M NOT A PATRIOT BUT
10. THROW HIM OUT HE'S BREAKING MY HEART
11. SHOULD THE BIBLE BE BANNED
12. WE ARE ALL BOURGEOIS NOW
13. SAINT FRANCIS AMONGST THE MORTALS
14. BOY MEETS GIRL SO WHAT (AT WAR EP VERSION)
15. ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
16. THE NEW LEFT REVIEW #2
17. THE LION WILL LAY DOWN WITH THE LAMB

Disc 3
1. I'M ON THE SIDE OF MANKIND AS MUCH AS THE NEXT MAN
2. AND TOMORROW THE STOCK EXCHANGE WILL BE THE HUMAN RACE
3. NOW IS THE TIME FOR AN IRON HAND
4. THE DRINKING SONG OF THE MERCHANT BANKERS
5. WRITE TO YOUR MP TODAY
6. USE A BANK I'D RATHER DIE
7. I WORKED MYSELF UP FROM NOTHING
8. THE WELL FED POINT OF VIEW
9. GET A KNIFE BETWEEN YOUR TEETH
10. TAKE THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE MEN OF VIOLENCE
11. YOU'LL HAVE TO PUT AN END TO THEM
12. NOBODY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT YOUR PRIVATE LIFE
13. WITH ONE EYE ON GETTING THEIR PAY
14. CAN THE HAVES USE THEIR BRAINS
15. YOU'RE ALIVE

Disc 4
1. A CHILD SOON IN CHAINS
2. FRANS HALS
3. AM MP SPEAKS
4. ANTINATURE
5. THE WICKED PALACE REVOLUTION
6. THE VISION OF PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE
7. THE WELL OF LONELINESS
8. MONETARIES
9. CHARLES WINDSOR
10. THE FUNERAL
11. SHOULD THE BIBLE BE BANNED?
12. THIS NELSON ROCKERFELLER
13. THE MYTH OF THE NORTH SOUTH DIVIDE
14. I'M NO PATRIOT BUT
15. KEEP AN OPEN MIND OR ELSE
16. THE LION WILL LAY DOWN WITH THE LAMB

Back in May/June 1986, the New Musical Express released one of their regular mail-order cassettes. Reflecting the latest trends in Indie music, C86 was a 22-track cassette which was inspired by the NME’s C81 tape from half a decade earlier. Aside from a few name bands (The Pastels, Primal Scream, the Wedding Present, the Mighty Lemon Drops), most acts were relatively unknown beyond the back pages and gig listings of the weekly music press. A few hadn’t even issued a record!

C86 slowly but surely became the NME’s best-selling ever compilation, selling an estimated 40,000 copies and eventually being reissued on LP and cassette by Rough Trade the following year. C86 prompted a week of shows at the ICA and would come to embody a whole musical style and era.

This deluxe expanded edition of the original C86 cassette adds some 50 bonus tracks. The box set is curated by original compiler Neil Taylor and has the endorsement of the NME. Neil has chosen tracks which could conceivably have been on the original C86 package: all the recordings were made between mid-1985 and mid-1986. Neil wrote about many of the bands at the time.

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1. Primal Scream - Velocity Girl
2. The Mighty Lemon Drops - Happy Head
3. The Soup Dragons - Pleasantly Surprised
4. The Wolfhounds - Feeling So Strange Again
5. The Bodines - Therese
6. Mighty Mighty - Law
7. Stump - Buffalo
8. Bogshed - Run To The Temple
9. A Witness - Sharpened Sticks
10. The Pastels - Breaking Lines
11. Age Of Chance - From Now On,This Will Be Your God
12. Shop Assistants - It's Up To You
13. Close Lobsters - Firestation Towers
14. Miaow - Sport Most Royal
15. Half Man Half Biscuit - I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart)
16. The Servants - Transparent
17. Mackenzies - Big Jim (There's No Pubs In Heaven)
18. Big Flame - New Way (Quick Wash And Brush Up With Liberation Theology)
19. We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - Console Me
20. Mccarthy - Celestial City
21. The Shrubs - Bullfighters Bones
22. The Wedding Present - This Boy Can Wait(A Bit Longer)

Disc: 2
1. The June Brides - Just The Same
2. Yeah Yeah Noh - Another Side To Mrs Quill
3. The Primitives - Lazy
4. Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes - Splashing Along
5. The Band Of Holy Joy - Rosemary Smith
6. The Mctells - Virginia M.C.
7. B.M.X. Bandits - E102
8. One Thousand Violins - Like One Thousand Violins
9. The Dentists - Peppermint Dreams
10. The Membranes - Everything's Brilliant
11. The Weather Prophets - Worm In My Brain
12. The Brilliant Corners - Meet Me On Tuesdays
13. Talulah Gosh - I Told You So
14. Pigbros - Hedonist Hat
15. 14 Iced Bars - Inside
16. St. Christopher - Go Ahead, Cry
17. The Groove Farm - Captain Fantastic (Demo)
18. Kilgore Trout - The Peacock Nose
19. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Inside Me
20. The Hit Parade - You Didn't Love Me Then
21. That Petrol Emotion - Mine
22. The Turncoats - One Breath
23. A Riot Of Colour - Skink (Flexi Version)
24. Paul Groovy & The Pop Art Experience - Tune In. Turn On, Trip Out
25. The Railway Children - Darkness And Colour

Disc: 3
1. The Chesterfields - Sweet Revenge
2. The Jasmine Minks - World's No Place
3. Stitched - Why
4. Razorcuts - Sad Kaleidoscope
5. Treebound Story - I Remember
6. The Nightingales - Part Time Moral England
7. Episode Four - Strike Up Matches
8. The Avons - Everything's Going Right
9. Meat Whiplash - Here It Comes
10. King Of The Slums - Spider Psychiatry
11. Happy Mondays - Freaky Dancin'
12. Biff Bang Pow - Love's Going Out Of Fashion
13. Blue Areoplanes - Outback Jazz
14. Lawrence & The Comfortable Society - Heartache
15. Laugh - Take Your Time, Yeah (Flexi Version)
16. North Of Cornwallis - Billy Liar
17. Pop Will Eat Itself - Mesmerized
18. Benny Profane - Hang Fire
19. Go! Service - Real Life
20. Janitors - Good To Be King
21. The Claim - Gullible's Travels
22. The Auctioneers - Scoop
23. On - Perfect Cockney Hard
24. The Love Act - Hep Clothes
25. The Enormous Room - I Don't Need You 

Northside charted with their very first single, the double-A-sided ‘Shall We Take A Trip’ (with its notorious opening chant, “L… S… D”) and ‘Moody Places’. Follow-up ‘My Rising Star’ peaked at No. 32 in November 1990 and the band enjoyed a third consecutive Top 40 in June 1991 with ‘Take 5’. That same month, the band’s only album, Chicken Rhythms, reached No. 19.

Thereafter, Northside demo’d material for a second album but Factory Records got into financial trouble and the band eventually split up.

Recently, however, the original line-up of Northside have reunited for a tour: Warren "Dermo" Dermody (Vocals), Cliff Ogier (Bass), Timmy Walsh (Guitar) and Paul Walsh (Drums).

TRACK LISTING

Disc One – Chicken Rhythms
1: TAKE 5
2: WEIGHT OF AIR
3: FUNKY MUNKY
4: A CHANGE IS ON IT'S WAY
5: YEAH MAN
6: TOUR DE WORLD
7: WISHFUL THINKING
8: SHALL WE TAKE A TRIP
9: WHO'S TO BLAME
10: PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT
11: MY RISING STAR

Disc Two – The Singles
1: SHALL WE TAKE A TRIP? (12")
2: MOODY PLACES (12")
3: MY RISING STAR (12")
4: TAKE 5 (7")
5: TOUR DE WORLD (EDIT)
6: MOODY PLACES (7")
7: MY RISING STAR *
8: WEIGHT OF AIR *
9: MOODY PLACES *
10: A CHANGE IS ON ITS WAY *
11: MY RISING STAR (7" INSTRUMENTAL)
12: WHO'S TO BLAME (INSTRUMENTAL)
13: MOODY PLACES (INSTRUMENTAL)
14: MY RISING STAR (12" INSTRUMENTAL)

Back in the mid-80s, The Primitives combined the fuzz guitars of The Jesus & Mary Chain with the pop sensibilities of Blondie and a nod to cult heroes The Velvet Underground. They swiftly rose from being a popular Indie guitar outfit to charting worldwide with ‘Crash’, kickstarting a craze in bands fronted by blonde female singers (Transvision Vamp, The Darling Buds et al).

Lovely was The Primitives’ debut album. Issued in April 1988 on the back of the success of ‘Crash’, it peaked at No. 6 in the UK, staying on the charts for ten weeks, and yet is unavailable on CD.

Compiled with the help of guitarist PJ Court, this 2-CD compilation boasts re-mastered music as well as a splendid, annotated booklet boasting rare photos and personal memories from the band.

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TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. Crash
2. Spacehead
3. Carry Me Home
4. Shadow
5. Thru The Flowers
6. Dreamwalk Baby
7. I'll Stick With You
8. Nothing Left
9. Stop Killing Me
10. Out Of Reach
11. Ocean Blue
12. Run Baby Run
13. Don't Want Anything To Change
14. Buzz Buzz Buzz

Disc 2
1. Way Behind Me
2. All The Way Down
3. Crash (Again And Again)
4. I'll Stick With You (Single Version)
5. Things Get In Your Way
6. Out Of Reach (Single Version)
7. Way Behind Me (Acoustic Version)
8. All The Way Down (Beat Version)
9. Crash (1985 Demo)
10. Dreamwalk Baby (Live)
11. Really Stupid (Live)

One of America's defining hardcore punk outfits the Dead Kennedys merged their revolutionary politics with their music. Formed in 1978 in San Francisco when Jello Biafra and bassist Klaus Flouride joined up with guitarist East Bay Ray, within a year the band released their first independent single, "California Uber Alles" and the classic second single, "Holiday in Cambodia". Both feature here on their 1980 debut album, "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables". It was their defining release!