First three albums remastered in 2019 by Calum Malcolm on 180g vinyl. Out 22nd Nov.
Still no High on vinyl, though.
I’ll probably/possibly skip these as I have the Linn originals (and the double vinyl of Peace At Last from the other year).
The Blue Nile reissues
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Just came here to post about this.
£24 is steep though.
A better price on Amazon
I might spring for AWATR as my Linn copy is a bit knackered having been played on my father’s Garrard, my mother’s Dansette and my Amstrad stack system.
I bought a Rega Planar 2 the following year.
Do you know if they will release these digitally as hi-res downloads (I.e like the Prefab Sprout re-issues that were only on vinyl) ?
The deluxe Peace at Last (2CD or 2LP) in 2014-ish was released as 24/44.1 but only in the US, so, er, my friend, had to resort to nefarious means to get them. It would have been nice to had a download code in the vinyl.
I will ask those in the know.
High on Vinyl coming, apparently . . .
https://thebluenilereissues.com/
@fentonsteve
With the traditional 2CD ‘deluxe’ edition featuring less than half an hour on CD2, half of which is remixes of album tracks on CD1.
Release date either June 5th or Nov 22nd, depending who you believe.
I’m still hoping for a B-sides collection, but I’m not holding my breath.
Disc: 2
1. wasted
2. the days of our lives. remix
3. she saw the world. remix
4. i
5. big town
6. here come the bluebirds
I don’t mind the lack of tracks, I would rather have just a few than 6 versions of ‘Stay Close’ that aren’t as good as the original and that I never play again.
BTW, Amazon have the release date as 5th June
Surprise, surprise: no longer released on 5th June. No new date as yet.
Still showing as a June 5th release on Amazon
This arrived in my inbox last Friday:
“We will not be able to deliver this item(s) to you on the date initially indicated in the summary of your order. As COVID-19 has spread, we’ve recently seen an increase in people shopping online and, to serve our customers while also helping to ensure the safety of our associates, we are prioritising stocking and delivering items that are a higher priority for our customers. This has resulted in some of our delivery promises being longer than usual.
We can confirm that your pre-order is secure; however, we don’t yet have an estimated delivery date.
We are making every effort to ship your order as soon as possible and will email you as soon as we have a delivery date.”
Ah. I have checked my inbox and I too have the same message. I’ll be honest, until I saw that this thread had been revived I had forgotten that I had ordered the item, which justifies my thinking at the time – if I don’t pre order this now I will probably forget to do it. It’s nice to be right, even if it’s only once every leap year…
Well, I’ve waited 4 years since they annnounced High was ready for rerelease, so what’s another 6 months? This is The Blue Nile we’re talking about…
Amazon have pushed back a lot of release dates but some can still be obtained on the original date via the record company’s own site eg Cherry Red releases and I think some from Umusic too.
Now July 1st. What’s another month in TBN time?
I’ve had an email today saying June 9th…
@fentonsteve
And the email after yours was telling me the same thing. Hurrah!
I await today’s email saying ‘You ordered an item that no longer exists’
Followed on Thursday by it dropping through the letter box…
Vinyl update yesterday: also 9th June.
High On Vinyl.
Afterword T-Shirt.
Arff !
Or (and I forgot this in my original post):
High on Vinly
I listened to this for the first time today: A BBC broadcast of the Blue Nile live at Manchester Free Trade Hall in September 1990.
It’s superb. How could it be anything else?
I have the whole concert and can ‘help’.
I didn’t got to that tour, but I did go to the Peace At Last tour at the Palladium in ’95. It was the closest I’ve been to spiritual euphoria. After that gig, I understood what going to church is like for religious people.
Help!
If you folks requiring ‘help’ would care to PM me an email address where I can send a care package…
Some help would be much appreciated.
PM me an email address
The Palladium Blue Nile gig was fabulous.
I would also appreciate ‘help’….!?
I delayed by Damascene moment until the Royal Albert Hall in 1997, and so wish I had got my shit together earlier and made more of the opportunities to see them live. I did enjoy the Buchanan / Bell Barbican show in 2006 too.
Any ‘help’ on offer would also be warmly welcomed…
I would love some help too……
Yes absolutely. I saw them at a shamefully half-full Brighton Coliseum (Dome? That Russian thing with the onion towers that George III had built, anyway). That man could sing the phonebook etc. It was very moving, in my top three gigs.
Half-full at the Brighton Dome? Surprised; you’d think every arty ponce in that town would be there mwah-mwahing in the bar before. I recall gigs there where it could have been the Hampstead Theatre.
I was at the Free Trade Hall show. It was quite an experience. The first and only time I’ve seen an act get a standing ovation just for walking out on stage.
It’s an hotel now and I stayed there about 5 years ago. It was a very strange feeling to be sat in the same space drinking cocktails as I was all those years ago watching them perform.
What is the the background to this teaming of Blue Nile and Rickie Lee Jones?
It’s from Scottish telly show Halfway To Paradise, which TBN did the theme for (it was issued as a b-side of The Downtown Lights).
RLJ had Flying Cowboys out at the time. She guests on a studio version of Easter Parade on the b-side of Headlights On The Parade. The live version on the video was on a RLJ promo.
There were quite a few years when Blue Nile were incredibly hip in the USA particularly amongst more left-field artists like Robbie Robertson and the aforementioned Rickie Lee.
Yes, Paul Buchanan was guest vocalist on tracks by a couple of dozen trendy US performers.
Their publishers punted their songs around when they wouldn’t release their own records (the “buried master tapes” period) and the likes of Sporty Spice and Annie Lennox got a leg up.
I have a few of these odds and ends and they’re all interesting/inessential/frustrating.
Question 2. How Sting ever acknowledged BN as an influence post Police? Sticks out like a dog’s balls to me.
Not that I know of. It’s funny, I like the Police and love TBN but can’t abide Sting solo.
I liked the period when he had those hot jazzers Branford Marsalis et al.
Hmmmm, unexpectedly:
“Your Proper Music order has shipped”
Whoop! Whoop!
Arrived this AM.
Well done “Proper Music”!
Just got round to listening to it today – so far really loving CD2!! And on Amazon HD it sounds pretty fine quality to me!!
Anyone got £303.47 going spare?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-BLUE-NILE-In-Concert-509-UK-BBC-Transcription-PROMO-CD-Live-Manchester-1990/203032784884?hash=item2f45b26ff4:g:jIEAAOSw~cRe86pO