Taken from the forthcoming reissue of Chewing The Fat

"Me And Mr. Sanchez" Blue Rondo A La Turk

"Tess is a true believer in the church of rock’n’roll. She has great taste and is really sharp!” - Alan McGee

Tess Parks was born and raised in Toronto but moved to London at seventeen to pursue music and to study photography. She has played solo for the past four years.

Having moved back to Toronto in 2012, she put together her amazing psychedelic backing band of "sexy and talented musicians”, The Good People.
Early in 2013, she self-released a very popular EP ‘Work All Day/Up All Night’
Tess describes her songs as "lo-fi alternative drones with a hypnotic vibe”. Influences include Elliott Smith, friends the Dandy Warhols and all the classics: "I was brought up on Bob Dylan, Nirvana, The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Zeppelin.”

She met Alan McGee in London. "We stayed in touch, that was it really. I just got so lucky. I love Oasis, Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine… He’s affiliated with all of my favourite musicians.”

Tess recorded her album of scuzzy, downbeat psychedelia (think Mazzy Star crossed with The Brian Jonestown Massacre) across the summer. It’s been pre-empted by the release of her debut single proper ‘Somedays’.


Tess Parks - Gates Of Broadway

John Lees' Barclay James Harvest 'Hymn' 2013 is released on 25th November 2013

John Lees' Barclay James Harvest - Hymn 2013

Welcome to the twenty-eighth episode of the Cherry Red Radio show in association with Boogaloo Radio, Almost Blue Radio, Slack City, Bay FM, Kalypso Gold, Ship Full Of Bombs,
Mad Wasp Radio, Target Radio, Radio Six International, Delicious Agony and Smile Radio.

Host Iain McNay is joined by Director of Catalogue John Reed, Head of Press & Comms Matt Ingham and our show producer and engineer Umi Nowaz for another interesting look at Cherry Red and beyond. This month’s show is another eclectic journey through the Cherry Red release schedule and beyond.

This week the gang get progressive with Rush, Yes and Pink Floyd before heading to Los Angeles to do battle with the heroes and villains of the 1960’s music scene, as well as unearth a hidden rarity from the House Of Love. From prog to pop, punk to soul and everything in between, what’s your flavour?

1. Rush - Limelight (Remastered)
2. Peter Bardens - Write My Name In The Dust
3. Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
4. Yes - Roundabout
5. Miller Anderson - Alice Mercy
6. Roger Chapman - Moth To A Flame
7. Girls At Our Best - Pleasure
8. Girls At Our Best - Fast Boyfriends
9. Suzi Quatro - Heart of Stone
10. 999 - Homicide
11. The Black Keys - It Ain’t Over
12. Tomberlin - Easy
13. Jo schornikow - Comeback
14. Marc almond - Glorious
15. Marc almond - End in tears
16. Bobby Fuller Four - Let Her Dance
17. The Grass Roots - Let’s Live For today
18. Marc Eric - Move With The Dawn
19. The Byrds - Why
20. Luke Haines & Peter Buck - Beat Poetry For The Survivalist
21. House Of Love - Beatles & The Stones (Chocolate Factory Demo)
22. Biff Bang Pow - Love’s Going Out Of Fashion
23. Felt Mexican - Bandits
24. Jade Warrior - Three Horned Dragon King
25. Spitfire - Theme From Six Million Dollar Man (UTC)

Cherry Red Radio: Episode 28 (May/June 22)

Man - Something Is Happening

"Therese" The Bodines

The Girl From Detroit City is a beautifully presented 4-CD boxed set, celebrating an amazing 50 years in the music business for rock ‘n’ roll queen, Suzi Quatro. 

The 82 tracks on offer here span the whole of Suzi’s career, including three songs by the Pleasure Seekers, the all-girl rock band, which Suzi formed along with her sister Patti, and which signed to Mercury Records in 1968. Her massive chart hits from the 1970s also feature, including the ‘Chinnichap’ numbers, Can the Can, 48 Crash and Devil Gate Drive and a whole wealth of material from the 1970s onwards, through to tracks from her critically-acclaimed 2011 album, In The Spotlight, which witnessed her reunion with producer, Mike Chapman; highlights of which included Suzi’s covers of Goldfrapp’s Strict Machine and Rhianna’s Breaking Dishes plus a Chapman number, A Girl Like Me, which he wrote especially for her.


Suzi Quatro - Warm Leatherette

Alice Fredenham - Misty

The Human League - Being Boiled

The Mickey Finn - Garden Of My Mind

Tiny Tim - Fill Your Heart

Scream and Dance - In Rhythm

Jimmy Somerville - Live and Acoustic at Stella Polaris
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Barcode : 5013929846210
Dealer Price 10.99
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Tracklisting 

A1 : (You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real 
A2 : Why?
A3 : Back To Me 
A4: To Love Somebody
A5 : Come Lately

B1 : Some Wonder
B2 : For A Friend 
B3 : I Just Don’t Know What To Do
B4 : Smalltown Boy
B5 : Don’t Leave Me This Way


LIMITED EDITION VINYL LP - ONLY 500 COPIES WORLDWIDE

Jimmy Somerville performed a unique one-off special acoustic set in the summer of 2015 at the famous Stella Polaris festival in Denmark with many of his well known songs re-imagined. This souvenir release marks the very first time that a solo Jimmy Somerville live release has been made commercially available. The power of Jimmy's voice is evident in these inventive, all new acoustic arrangements of songs drawn from the full breadth of Jimmy's 30 year plus career including his breakthrough singles 'Smalltown Boy' and 'Why?' with Bronski Beat, his UK number one single 'Don't Leave Me This Way'  with the Communards and two undisputed highlights, 'Some Wonder' and 'Back To Me' from his recent album 'Homage' - his authentic celebration of the sound of the disco era. 

Jimmy's vocal range and dexterity is breathtaking and his backing band and singers blend incredibly into a soulful re-working of hits and favourite tracks from his extensive songbook. All in all, Jimmy is a performer and an artist at the pinnacle of his talent and demonstrably determined to have, and to give, a good time to his legions of loyal fans. We are proud to make this release available to all of his fans who were not lucky enough to witness what was one of the most indisputably creative performances of Jimmy's career! 




Jimmy Somerville - Live and Acoustic at Stella Polaris
SFE052
Barcode : 5013929846227
Dealer Price 7.99
Pop


Tracklisting 

1 : (You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real 
2 : Why?
3 : Back To Me 
4: To Love Somebody
5 : Come Lately
6 : Some Wonder
7 : For A Friend 
8 : I Just Don’t Know What To Do
9 : Smalltown Boy
10 : Don’t Leave Me This Way


LIMITED EDITION CD : ONLY 2000 COPIES WORLDWIDE - Packaged in a mini-LP style gatefold sleeve with a black vinyl-effect CD.

Jimmy Somerville performed a unique one-off special acoustic set in the summer of 2015 at the famous Stella Polaris festival in Denmark with many of his well known songs re-imagined. This souvenir release marks the very first time that a solo Jimmy Somerville live release has been made commercially available. The power of Jimmy's voice is evident in these inventive, all new acoustic arrangements of songs drawn from the full breadth of Jimmy's 30 year plus career including his breakthrough singles 'Smalltown Boy' and 'Why?' with Bronski Beat, his UK number one single 'Don't Leave Me This Way'  with the Communards and two undisputed highlights, 'Some Wonder' and 'Back To Me' from his recent album 'Homage' - his authentic celebration of the sound of the disco era. 

Jimmy's vocal range and dexterity is breathtaking and his backing band and singers blend incredibly into a soulful re-working of hits and favourite tracks from his extensive songbook. All in all, Jimmy is a performer and an artist at the pinnacle of his talent and demonstrably determined to have, and to give, a good time to his legions of loyal fans. We are proud to make this release available to all of his fans who were not lucky enough to witness what was one of the most indisputably creative performances of Jimmy's career! 



For A Friend

(You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real

SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK
Flaunt It 

9 October 2020
4CD
	
  

• Deluxe 4CD set showcasing one of the most notable albums of the mid-1980s, and the phenomenon that surrounded it.
• The Giorgio Moroder produced album, B-sides, remixes and rarities (including many never before on CD) PLUS A COMPLETE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED LIVE SHOW recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios in front of an invited audience.
• Includes the international hit singles ‘Love Missile F1-11’, ‘Sex Bomb Boogie’, ‘21st Century Boy’ and ‘Massive Retaliation’, plus remixes and versions.
• Produced with input from band members Tony James and Neal X.
• Material remastered from the original tapes.

In the mid-1980s, former Generation X founder Tony James pieced together a pop group like no other. Taking the greatest rock ‘n roll traditions and clichés and fusing them with a utopian vision of modernism, commercialism and the future, Sigue Sigue Sputnik brought together a previously unknown and inexperienced collection of musicians and faces and turned them into the must-see band of the era. Sputnik were hyped in the media before a note had been released, were courted by major labels and television stations, became regulars on London’s glittering social circuit and developed a reputation for chaos and grandiosity which appealed to the mainstream tabloid press as much as it did the music papers. 

Working with studio legend Giorgio Moroder, the band crafted a club-oriented, electronic rock ‘n roll sound littered with immovable basslines, pop culture samples, familiar licks, self-glamorising lyrics and a futurist aesthetic. Marketing and advertising were warmly embraced – the album included paid-for adverts between tracks – and Sputnik resolutely insisted on their own brilliance, whether you liked it or not. THE ULTIMATE PRODUCT FROM THE ULTIMATE GROUP, they declared, and they weren’t far wrong.

This celebratory package brings together “Flaunt It” and its many remixes, B-sides and rarities, alongside a brilliant and chaotic live recording made at London’s Abbey Road Studios, providing the perfect counterpoint for the rule-bending studio manipulation found elsewhere. Sputnik’s star burned brightly, and their influence stretched into the late 1980s and 1990s as technology and globalisation

brought their crossover sound and bold visual aesthetic into the mainstream. This set is a must-have for fans of the band and 1980s pop culture, and for believers in a glittering future.







Disc One

Flaunt It
1. Love Missile F1-11
(Re-Recording Part Ii)
2. Atari Baby
3. Sex-Bomb-Boogie
4. Rockit Miss U.S.A.
5. Advertisement:
The Sputnik Corporation
6. 21st Century Boy
7. Massive Retaliation
8. Advertisement: The Sigue Sigue Sputnik Computer Game
9. Teenage Thunder
10. She's My Man
11. Advertisement: Emi Records
Bonus Track
12. From The Gutter To The Stars	Disc Two
Remixes
1. Trailer Mix
2. Love Missile F1-11 (7” Single Mix)
3. Love Missile F1-11 (The Bangkok Remix)
4. Love Missile F1-11 (Dance Mix)
5. Love Missile F1-11 (Extended Ultra Violence Version)
6. Love Missile F1-11 (Video Mix)
7. Love Missile F1-11 (Japanese Remix)
8. Love Missile F 1-11 (Westbam Remix Short Version)
9. Massive Retaliation (The Super Massive Uk Remix)
10. Massive Retaliation (Shut Up Dub Remix)
11. Sex Bomb Boogie (Magic Flute) 12. Sex Bomb Dance	Disc Three

Remixes, Rarities And B-Sides
1. Hack Attack
2. Buy Emi
3. Dancerama (1986 Version)
4. Suicide (Live In London Sept' '86)
5. 21st Century Boy (Extended T.V. Mix)
6. 21st Century Boy (German Remix)
7. 21st Century Boy (Dance Mix)
8. Buy Emi (£4,000,000 Mix)
9. She's My Man (Remix)	Disc Four

Live At Abbey Road
1. Sex Bomb Boogie
2. 21st Century Boy
3. Twist & Shout
4. She's My Man
5. Shoot It Up
6. Jayne Mansfield
7. Rockit Miss U.S.A.
(Previously Unreleased)

Flaunt It (Disc Four)

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Rockit Miss U.S.A. (Previously Unreleased)

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