NewsOut This Week / on 16 February 2024
Reissues and releases
Kate Bush / The Dreaming Escapologist Edition Vinyl
Kate Bush follows up her ‘Baskerville Edition’ of Hounds of Love with another illustrated vinyl edition of one of her studio albums, this time 1982’s The Dreaming. Available to pre-order from the SDE shop.
Pet Shop Boys / Loneliness CD single CD
Loneliness, the Pet Shop Boys first single from their new album Nonetheless, is out this week as a CD single.
Suede / Stay Together Vinyl
Suede’s 1994 non-album single Stay Together is released as a limited edition seven-inch picture disc early next year, as part of Demon’s ongoing ‘Suede30’ celebrations.
Dead Or Alive / Dead Or Alive / Still Spinnin’: The Singles Collection 1983-2021 CD
A new 27CD Dead Or Alive box set called Still Spinnin’: The Singles Collection 1983-2021 collects all the band singles that were originally released on CBS Records along with independent releases in the post-Sony era.
Steve Hackett / The Circus and the Nightwhale CD, Vinyl, Blu-ray
Steve Hackett releases his new studio album, The Circus and the Nightwhale.
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Went to my local Newbury Comics & saw new albums by both Jennifer Lopez (This is Me…Now) & Blackberry Smoke, the headliners on this past Outlaw Cruise 8 (Be Right Here), saw other things but the BBS CD was a drop high priced, so I went to Amazon & ordered it, but then I saw a shocker…that Burt Bacharach/Elvis Costello Box?? It was too high priced at like $178?? Well it was REALLY slashed down…to like $57.40!!! I snapped that right up, before it went back up!! Get it!!
Resonance by Boris Blank (one half of Yello) is released this week too. Seems to be available on CD and on a Pure Audio Blu-ray + CD deluxe set direct from ianrecords.com.
Two excellent 7″ Singles out this week on coloured vinyl. 1. Rhoda Dakar’s cover of The Buzzcocks ‘I Don’t Mind’ on Dusky Pink vinyl. 2. The Courettes new single ‘Shake’ on Gold vinyl. Both singles are available on Bandcamp and probably a few very good record stores.
Granddaddy – blue wav
Idles – Tangk
Faint as my single voice might be, I’m sending an unequivocal message to the Kate Bush type of releases: je n’achete pas.
Possible answer by Kate Bush: C’est dommage. ;-)
I’d be very happy to have stirred up that response in the Lionheart! ;)
Cutting Crew’s boxset of their first three albums also comes out this week.
Thanks for this tip! Just ordered the 3CD box from Amazon. Would love to see at least ‘Broadcast’ reissued on vinyl … maybe for RSD?
I hope it won’t seem too ‘Alan Partridge’ to mention this, but there is a documentary about me (!) – covering box set curating, music book writing and music making – on BBC NI this Sunday (18 February) at 10:30pm. It will be available nationally in the UK via iPlayer for 30 days after that. Having curated the Horslips box set ‘More Than You Can Chew’ for Madfish, mastered by Cormac O’Kane, Horslips mainman Barry Devlin became extraordinarily fascinated with my world – finding great fun in a lot of the local musical characters around me and Cormac. He insisted on producing this documentary, roped Cormac in to direct it and convinced BBC NI to broadcast a 55-minuted cut of it. The way I looked at it was this: I’ve spent 30+ years chronicling the musical ancient world, so when a character from that ancient world (fervently) insisted it was my turn, I said ‘okay…’ – and then ‘let go’ of any attachment to it. In a way, the 55 minutes is a ‘curating’ of my world – it’s Barry and Cormac’s impression of it, tempered by a bit of trimming from BBC NI. I gave interviews for it, helmed a couple of two-way interviews with people and took part in some musical performances – but I haven’t been party to any editorial choices and I haven’t seen it myself. A few musical heroes are in it – John McLaughlin (!), Johnny Marr, Ralph McTell, Andy Powell, Martin Hayes – and the maestro of music biography, Mark Lewisohn. If anyone’s interested, here’s the iPlayer link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wmjw
I just want to say thank you very much for the work you and all concerned put into the amazing Horslips box set.
I’ll definitely check out the documentary.
Nice one Colin. Have set to record.
Go Colin H! That’s a brilliant thing to have happened.
I struggle to get my friends to take an interest in an ounce of the music that excites me so much.
I spent last Saturday afternoon in a pub in Dublin looking at the Horslips logo painted on the wall, along with Thin Lizzy and other Irish bands. Looking at the wall wasn’t the main event of the day; just a side benefit of drinking Guinness with my son and a good friend!
As an aside, I’d recommend getting a photo of yourself printed on a pint of Guinness at the factory, it’s freaky!
Colin H, it will be a pleasure and a joy to watch your documentary.
The problem is, I don’t drink Guinness!
It’s a valid point that it’s lonely out in the real world.
I have a lovely set up, a really nice set of headphones, some gorgeous dedicated HiFi / storage furniture (thank you HiFi racks), storing some genuinely lovely vinyl and CD sets. In the last 13 years of seriously creating something I think is stunning I have not had one person even make a single comment. Plainly we don’t don’t create or buy these things for the specific adulation of others but just once would be nice. Just one person to say “Hey, that looks good”. We had a family party here over Christmas with about 25 people and no one said a word. The tempura prawns got a great write-up “ooh, they’re nice, here Alan try one of these”. But the Rega P8 no more than 6ft. away didn’t get so much as a glance. The 16 year old living inside my mind felt quite sad.
Christ, you even see people with Hornby train sets get admiring glances on mainstream TV but Music / HiFi appreciation seems to have lost all value. The age range of the party was 27 to 69, so I’d have thought there was some lingering appreciation. None.
Maybe they have grown up and I haven’t?
Tempura Prawns vs. a magic hi-fi set up – it’s a tough choice between instant gratification or aural delight?
An interesting phenomenon, Chris and one to which many a SDE “reader” may relate. Shindigs at chez Venom inevitably end up with a dozen people carousing ‘round the dodgy Crosley in the kitchen, playing worn out 70’s comps and having a hoot, while the actual music room remains a quite sanctuary for the socially awkward.
PS. Never grow up, Chris.
PPS. Congrats to you Colin H, it shall be the treat of my week to have a wee peek.
(Edited due to failure to launch 4 days ago, may now be read to the tune of “Yesterday’s Papers”.)
Definitely will give this a look, Colin.