December 18, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: cloudbusting, Kate Bush, Live, review
SDE reviews a special performance which featured Del Palmer
Artists can be finicky. On tour, they’ll normally play the hits, but they also focus on the, perhaps mediocre, new album and they rarely play that ‘deep cut’ you’ve been waiting for. For all the plaudits garnered by Kate Bush‘s return to the stage in 2014 with Before The Dawn, it was a very narrow reading of her output. Of her nine original studio albums (i.e. excluding 2011’s Director’s Cut) she played nothing at all from five of them and only one track from her most recent 50 Words For Snow. To put it another way, she ignored almost two thirds of her entire body of work.
Step forward tribute Kate tribute act Cloudbusting, fronted by the remarkable vocal talents of Mandy Watson. They make all your Kate Bush setlist dreams a reality. Album track from 1982’s The Dreaming? No problem. B-side to ‘Running Up That Hill’? Done. Title track from The Sensual World? Why not? And on Sunday evening at The Half Moon in Putney, they had a very large ace up their sleeve; Del Palmer, Kate’s longtime engineer, bass player, and boyfriend was in the band!
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December 15, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: paul mccartney, Re-Flex, Saturday Deluxe, Super Furry Animals
Fans disappointed by lack of availability of Wings box
The super deluxe editions of Paul McCartney‘s news Wings reissues (Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway) are/were available in a mega-box called Wings 1971-1973. This includes an extra book (Wings Over Europe) and a bonus 78 minute CD of previously unreleased live performances from this tour. This set was only available ‘D2C’ (direct to consumer) via McCartney’s label partners (Universal’s uDiscoverMusic store, for example) and not from major online outlets like Amazon, or HMV.
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December 14, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, howard jones, interview
Howard Jones speaks to SDE about the early days
Cherry Red have just reissued Howard Jones‘ first two albums, Human’s Lib and Dream Into Action as massively expanded super deluxe edition box sets. Howard has been very involved in the process and recently, just before an intimate gig in central London, he sat down with SDE editor Paul Sinclair to discuss the excitement of the early days and the two albums in question…
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December 14, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1990s, 2000s, shopsuperdeluxe, The Cardigans
All six of Swedish pop band The Cardigans‘ studio albums have been remastered and will be reissued early next year on 180g black vinyl.
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December 13, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: deals
UK: Kate Bush / Remastered in Vinyl I 4LP vinyl box – £66
Down from £96! Contains The Kick Inside, Lionheart, Never For Ever and The Dreaming.
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December 13, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, david sylvian, Japan, vinyl
Four albums from 1984 – 1987 issued on ‘deluxe’ vinyl
Four early David Sylvian albums will be issued on 180g vinyl in February.
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December 12, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1990s, juliana hatfield, new music, the lemonheads
Limited orange vinyl edition • Out in January
Juliana Hatfield will issue Weird, her second album in less than a year, in January 2019.
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December 11, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1990s, alan partridge, coloured vinyl
Complete 1992 radio series as a 3LP coloured vinyl box set
A-ha! (No, not that one). It’s the time of year when we sing about putting ‘A Partridge in a pear tree’ so why not put A Partridge on your pre-order list with this new Knowing Me Knowing You 3LP vinyl record set, which features broadcaster Alan Partridge hosting his very first radio chat show.
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December 10, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, 2000s, coloured vinyl, prince
First time on vinyl • Limited PURPLE vinyl
The Prince Estate and Sony’s Legacy Recordings have announced reissues of a trio of Prince albums: Musicology, 3121 and Planet Earth. All three will be reissued on CD and released for the first time on vinyl in February next year, with limited PURPLE vinyl pressings available.
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December 10, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: bruce springsteen, creedence clearwater revival, Depeche Mode, King Crimson, Neil Young, out this week, various artists
Depeche Mode / Construction Time Again & Some Great Reward 12″ boxes
Depeche Mode continue with their 12-inch vinyl box set reissue campaign with packages around the singles pulled from their third and fourth albums Construction Time Again and Some Great Reward.
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December 10, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, 1980s, Kate Bush
After five days in business at the back of London’s redeveloped Kings Cross area, Kate Bush‘s pop-up shop (officially called ‘Kate Bush Remastered Pop-Up’) closed its doors yesterday.
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December 7, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, Gary Crowley, various artists
After last year’s excellent Punk and New Wave box set, broadcaster and DJ Gary Crowley has turned his attention to the 1980s, by curating a new four-CD and 3LP package called Gary Crowley’s Lost 80s.
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December 6, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 2000s, coloured vinyl, limited edition, signed
First time on vinyl • Very limited SIGNED copies • Bonus seven-inch
Snow Patrol are reissuing their second album When It’s All Over We Still Have To Clear Up on vinyl for the first time.
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December 6, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, 1990s, Genesis, phil collins
‘Serious Hits…Live’ and ‘A Hot Night in Paris’ reissued & remastered
Phil Collins‘ ‘Take a Look at Me Now’ reissue campaign continues with the reissue of 1990 live album Serious Hits…Live.
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December 4, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1990s, coloured vinyl, mansun, SDE exclusive
SDE exclusive Mansun CD single with rare audio
Mansun‘s 1997 album Attack of the Grey Lantern was reissued in the summer for as a four-disc deluxe book edition which included demos, rarities, outtakes, BBC sessions and a 5.1 surround mix (on DVD). This deluxe set (along with the double coloured vinyl edition) is now available to buy on the SDE shop and each order comes with a FREE, very limited and completely exclusive Mansun CD single!
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December 3, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: deals
USA: Rush / Hemispheres super deluxe – $88 (approx £69)
Massive super deluxe features 2CD, blu-ray (with 5.1 mix), 3LP and more. This is £145 in the UK, so less than half price!
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December 3, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, ambient, japanese
And now for something completely different…
Light In The Attic have created a Japan Archival Series and this continues early next year with Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990, an expansive overview of the country’s vital minimal, ambient, avant-garde, and New Age music – what can collectively be described as ‘kankyō ongaku’, or environmental music. This is the first ever fully licensed collection of this music outside of Japan and it features internationally acclaimed artists such as Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Joe Hisaishi, as well as other pioneers like Hiroshi Yoshimura, Yoshio Ojima and Satoshi Ashikawa. This set is available as a 3LP vinyl box set or a deluxe 2CD book package.
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December 3, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: aretha franklin, Kate Bush, manic street preachers, out this week, paul mccartney, simple minds, Super Furry Animals, tanita tikaram, Transvision Vamp, van morrison, various artists, wings
Paul McCartney / Wings Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway reissues
Paul McCartney continues his ‘Archive Collection’ reissue series with two early Wings albums: Wild Life from 1971 and Red Rose Speedway from 1973. Both are issued as lavish super deluxe box sets (as well as all the other usual formats) and are also collected in an expensive Wings 1971-1973 limited edition box set that features additional books and audio. Incidentally, the US price for the Wild Life box has just dropped right down to $98 which is around £77. In the UK it’s £130!
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December 2, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, howard jones, SDEtv, unboxing, video
SDE takes a look at the new Howard Jones box sets Human’s Lib and Dream Into Action – released last Friday – with this new unboxing video. Does the packaging and presentation justify the relatively high price tag for these super deluxe editions of Howard’s first two albums? Watch the SDEtv video and find out…
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December 1, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, coloured vinyl, douglas adams, signed
First time on vinyl • Luxury presentation • 500 signed sets
Demon Records will issue Tertiary Phase a new 3LP coloured vinyl deluxe set that features the third series of Douglas Adams’ classic comedy science fiction radio show The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
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