LOW (Nash & Boult) - Enter The Bigger Reality

There is a lost classic of an album sitting in the archives of Babylon Pink Recordings, by the band Low. Featuring Brian Nash (Frankie Goes To Hollywood) and Grant Boult (The Promise), originally recorded in 1992 when the band were signed to Swanyard Discs. The album was called ENTER THE BIGGER REALITY and was never released as the record company went out of buisness before they were able to get it pressed up and out into the shops.
The full track listing for the album reads like this.....
01. Tearing my soul apart
02. Love comes down
03. My foolish heart
04. England in the rain
05. Hold me
06. When U were mine
07. Melon
08. When love comes back in fashion
09. Life goes on
10. Sleep
11. Deep inside a bad dream
12. Godless times
13. New Heaven
Fans of Frankie Goes To Hollywood may like to note that several of the tracks were co-written with fellow Frankies Peter Gill & Mark O'Toole.
The track Tearing my soul apart was released as a single but failed to chart.
Help us to persuade the guys from LOW to get this album out to the masses by making it the next release on Babylon Pink Recordings schedule by going to the facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Low-Nash-Boult/174531902602862

Paul Rutherford's Butt? Cowboy - The Cowboy Years

Available to download now from iTunes is a mini album of sorts worth of thrack from Frankies Paul Rutherford, these tracks like much of Pauls post Frankie material are in colabaration with former ABC members Mark White & Martin Fry and from a period in Pauls life of deep personal meaning.
Paul has said in a previous interview that he has the words Butt? Cowboy tattoed on his 'BUTT' in homage to these track,
Track listing is:
1. Accident Waiting To Happen
2. Golden Boys
3. My House (Original)
4. No Show Without Punch (Alive, Alive Oh! mix)
5. No Show Without Punch (Original)
6. Prayer Wheel
7. Still The Pain Grows(Live)
8. Still The Pin Grows (The Cowboys' Doctor's Psychedelic Mix)

So whilst you are waiting for the release of Pauls debut solo album (Get Real) from thefriendly people at Cherry Red why not nip along to iTunes now and download these to see you through those warm and sticky summer nights to come, you can even download the Cowboy image at the top of this update for your iPod or to make a CD insert if thats more your thing.

Liverpool (Deluxe Edition) REVISED

After several months of uncertainty as to wheather this would actually see the light due to the withdrawl of the original planned release, Frankie Goes To Hollywoods follow up to the multi million selling Welcome To The Pleasuredome will hit the shops on June 20th 2011.

The story of Liverpool, the second Frankie Goes To Hollywood long player (released in the UK in November 1986), is not that of one city, or one place in time. It's the story of a journey around some odd and surprising corners of Europe. And the story of Liverpool, the deluxe edition, is a road movie retracing the band's steps in search of the tapes and memories that were left behind. For Frankie, the Liverpool story started off in Ireland, at Borris House in County Carlow in the summer of 1985. Tax exiles, they set about early song writing sessions and one of the first to be written – 'Warriors of the Wasteland' – set the tone for everything that followed.

Borris House was also a chance to wind down after the madness of 1985's world tour, Around the World in Mighty Ways, during which the band had morphed from pop stars to rock stars. And the music was going in the same direction, too. No one at the time felt uncomfortable with (or was probably even conscious of) what was to be the start of Liverpool's famous 'rock direction'. In the mid-80s, that's what bands did. They 'went rock'. They felt, perhaps mistakenly in hindsight, that they had to prove they could play live, and front up as well on The Tube (where they were forced to play live) as they could on Top of the Pops (where they were forced to mime). For Frankie, this transition resulted in a second (and last) powerful album that yielded more hit singles (Rage Hard and Warriors...) and hit the upper reaches of the charts in multiple territories.

24 years on, with the members of Frankie now scattered around the world, and the original spirit of the band scattered with it, there's more of a need than ever to retrace their steps, gather the tapes, transfer, analyse and reissue them in a format like this. Because that's when the real story starts: when the fans press play again.

Indeed, there's so much more to enjoy now, with eleven previously unreleased tracks and alternate mixes from the album sessions, beautifully expanded artwork and detailed notes featuring interviews with all five band members. This is the second part of the fascinating Frankie story (the first being Welcome To The Pleasuredome), presented as never before…and incorporating an element of the unknown.