Eighty Something

Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm

live in Los Angeles 28.10.1997 with wayne hussey from  the mission in guitars.
http://thecurerarities.blogspot.com/

The Cure -  A Forest

13-A Little Respect

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Divine - You Think You're A Man

Remix made for Peter Gabriel. I've played some instruments, i.e. drums, strings and bass. Flute played by Cristina Marinelli.

Peter Gabriel - Games without frontiers (Daniele Silvestri Remix)

Tubeway Army - Down In The Park

The Sound Of The Smiths [Deluxe Edition]

The Smiths - Asleep

New Year Message

Hi everyone, I hope you and your families are well. 

As we hurtle towards another year I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your enthusiastic support. 

It has been a busy year with the completion of the box set project making all the 1st five albums available in lovely remastered form. I am very pleased with the way they turned out and I hope you enjoyed some of the rare tracks we were able to include. 
We managed to take the DIA/HL tour around the world visiting Japan, Australia, the UK, and the US, and it was a blast to play those albums for you. 

A couple of highlights of the year for me were "The song that changed my life" documentary 
http://byutv.org/watch/4de1b9ad-e106-430d-86a7-b8cc514fdbea/the-song-that-changed-my-life-howard-jones

and the Voices Around the World project
http://youtu.be/qqNY1j7nmwc

I hope you are able to download my New Year gift to you of 4 tracks that were recorded live for the documentary which can be downloaded by clicking the download link here.

Next year will be the 30th anniversary of the first single release and it seems like a great excuse to do something special again. I'm planning a show or shows for the end of the year which will feature new music and video composed primarily for live performance and a selection of my favourite tracks from the whole hojo canon. In the new music I hope to write specific parts for audience participation and I hope you will feel like joining in the fun of this (parts will go out before the show). 
We also plan to release a DVD set of all the promo videos to date with remastered audio in the box set format. 

Who knows what else might happen!

Once again thank you for another memorable year!

Couldn't have done it without you!

Please take good care of yourselves! 
Happy New Year
Love
Howard Jones


2 Things Can Only Get Better 320

A mere six months after their self-titled debut was released, on 17 March 1978 their second album “Alternative Chartbusters” followed – once again produced by Dangerfield & Steel. But, as the AllMusic site now recognizes, “Alternative Chartbusters” was way ahead of its time, a buried treasure that only got dusted off much later: “Condemned at the time for offering up little more than a straight carbon copy of its predecessor, the second Boys’ album has since ascended to the pantheon of power pop greats, a combination of the band's own inestimable position at the forefront of what, by early 1978, was already a burgeoning movement, and their seemingly effortless grasp of the rudiments of, indeed, a great pop song.”  

On the 35th anniversary of the original release of “Alternative Chartbusters” both their classic albums have been given a special edition deluxe release on both CD & vinyl by Fire Records. Each album has been digitally remastered to the highest quality (personally overseen by Dangerfield) and feature sleeve notes by Dave Henderson of Mojo along with song listing notes by Dangerfield. The albums also come with bonus CDs featuring previously unreleased material including Dangerfield’s original home demo of “Brickfield Nights” and Plain’s first vocal outing on “It Only Hurts When I Cry”.  

They will be playing a rare London show alturl.com/xndi5
THE BOYS - Sat 22 June - The Borderline - London - 7pm - £13.50

Pre-order here: http://www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=release&releaseid=00810



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