Brain Furey was on Radcliffe and Maconie last week touting a re-issue of Country Life and referring to some re-mixes but i can’t find any reference to this on Google (although I have had a G&T). Also seemed to suggest that the first two albums also had the same treatment
Anyone know what he was on about?
@Ainsley I heard a bit of the interview on the podcast, but he seemed to be promoting the deluxe edition of Avonmore, which features 20+ remixes.
Yup, I listened again and I must have aurally blinked when they transitioned from talking about Country Life to Avonmore.
REALLY want to hear the new versions when they do get round to them, though
No release date seems to have been announced but this is from Steven Wilson’s facebook last May
One remix project completed some time ago which is planned for issue later this year, is the classic 1972 debut album by Roxy Music. To preview a deluxe set, Universal Music Group recently released 2 of the tracks on 10 inch vinyl for Record Store Day.
Included were my mixes of a previously unheard full length version of Ladytron (running about 3 minutes longer than the original version) and The Numberer, which was the original B-side to Virginia Plain. The whole album and the A+B sides of the single will also be included on the deluxe edition mixed into 5.1 surround sound.
I always prefer to work closely with the artist on these projects, and in this case it was the band’s original guitar player Phil Manzanera who oversaw and approved the remixes.
As referred to above
I had little patience with that whole arch makeup glam rock thing, having got over TRex whole were brilliant and also closed the book on it. Once it got arty it because too self conscious for me. But the first Roxy album is an absolute gem. I can’t remember where I read it, but someone described it as like hearing 5 different bands all playing at the same time. An expanded Wilson remix / remaster would be fantastic,
Why is it you spot your typos quite clearly as it’s posting and you have to sit there going off into the Internet, proud in their wrongness. WHO were brilliant, FFS.
Fucking hell, I’ve done it again. WATCHING IT …going off into the Internet.
Sorry, been on the Armagnac after 5 am start = poor posting.
Re The Glam Thing, Roxy Music made total sense of it. In June 1972, Marc Bolan had corkscrew hair, a fluffy scarf and eyeliner. Bowie wore a boiler suit and great hair. Roxy Music had Brian Eno who went the whole hog with a complete costume. He dragged a few of his band mates with him. Paul was okay with a boiler suit, Andy kept his quiff and Phil was happy to wear a disguise. Bryan couldn’t resist competing with him. Plus, to be fair, they actually did go to art school. Groups such as Slade, The Sweet and Wizzard had a flamboyant one but none were as extreme as Eno. Once he left, they toned things down
Roxy Music was released the month before The Slider. The albums are incomparable for musical content and also for their look. Not only did Roxy Music sound like no other they looked like no other too.
I too am waiting more than patiently for that Roxy first LP deluxe edition, or even super deluxe edition (if cash allows). I bought the 10″ single on RSD, though I feel sure Universal pressed far more than the few hundred they hyped it as (if a Belfast store got half a dozen…).
I heard it first hand from an extremely well placed source earlier this year that it will be a 9 disc super deluxe edition. I know, I know – it sounds totally implausible but there it is.
I’m guessing at the following discs:
1. original LP remixed by SW
2. single sides and outtakes/alts
3. BBC sessions
4. BBC sessions
5. DVD video (TOTP Virginia Plain, Remake Remodel video, OGWT Ladytron, Grey Lagoon&Ladytron on that late-night BBC thing I forget the name of etc…)
6. DVD audio (5.1 etc etc)
and er….