NASHER - STAGE IT

Monday 1st August sees Frankie Goes To Hollywoods Brian Nash take to a different stage, for the first time Nasher will be performing a LIVE streaming gig for the masses.
Hosted by www.stageit.com the show kicks off at 20.00 GMT and will last approx 30 minutes with the potential of an encore. Nasher will be performing tracks from the 3 albums released to date in his solo career, with maqybe some FGTH tracks and or songs from the post Frankie era of Low and Dr Jollys Salvation Circus being incorparated into the set.
Tickets for the show can be booked by registering at http://www.stageit.com/nasher/live_from_my_living_room/4086 for a charge of $5.
There are only 30 tickets available to this unique gig and they are on sale now.

PAUL RUTHERFORD - OH WORLD 2011 RE-ISSUE

An expanded 2CD reissue of the only solo album to date from Paul Rutherford, former Frankie Goes To Hollywood singer and icon of 80s pop. This lost classic was originally released in 1989 in Europe and America,however this is the first time the album has been available in the UK. Tracks Include much sought-after early remixes by the likes of Arthur Baker and David Morales. Lead track is the acid house anthem Get Real, which - like Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Relax - received an airplay ban from the BBC. Three tracks - including a beautiful cover of Chic's I Want Your Love - are co-written and produced by Martin Fry and Mark White a/k/a ABC, 17 bonus tracks include all the A-side mixes, B-sides, 12" remixes and promo-only tracks - many of which appear on CD for the first time. This reissue arrives at the height of a Frankie Goes To Hollywood revival with recent deluxe expansions of Welcome To The Pleasuredome (August 2010) and Liverpool (February 2011), a reissue of Paul's 90s work - The Cowboy Years via iTunes January 2011)[see post from 26 May 2011], and a duet between Paul and Claudia Brucken on her new album Combined (February 2011).
It is available to order now direct from Cherry Red.
The full track listing looks like this.....
DISC 1:
The Album:
01. Oh World
02. Deep At The Centre
03. Who Said It Was Easy
04. The Gospel Truth
05. Light
06. Get Real
07. Cracked Wide Open
08. I Want Your Love
09. Catch A Falling Star
10. Half The Picture
The A-Sides:
11. I Want Your Love
12. Oh World (Original 7" Mix)
The B-Sides:
13. Happy Face(Full Length)
14. Pushed Away
15. Seduction (Edit)

DISC 2:
The Remixes:
01. Get Real (Happy House Mix)
02. I Want Your Love (Extended Mix)
03. I Want Your L.U.R.V.E.
04. Oh World (Extended Mix)
05. Oh World (Instrumental)
The Vinyl Mixes:
06. Get Real (Hardcore)
07. Get Real (Sinister)
08. Get Real (Don't Let 'Em Dub You Down)
09. I Want Your Love (Arthur Baker Remix)
10. Oh World (Universal Mix)
11. Oh World (Delirium Dub)

80's REWIND FESTIVAL

Saturday August 20th 2011 sees one of the most recognisable and powerful voices from the eighties make his UK Festival debut, Holly Johnson will be making his Rewind Festival debut this year. As lead singer and lyricist of multi million selling sensations Frankie Goes to Hollywood, he enjoyed phenomenal commercial success during the 1980s with hits including "Two Tribes", "The Power of Love" and their controversial debut "Relax". All taken from the award winning L.P "Welcome to the PleasureDome", Following those up with their secnond album "Liverpool" which spawned the singles "Rage Hard" and "Warriors of the Wasteland". After Holly and the band split in 1987 and a lengthy court case against the record label ZTT, Holly went on to have an equally successful solo career, with platinum selling album "Blast" reaching the top of the charts in 1989. He followed this up in 1991 with "Dreams that money can't buy" featuring the singles "Where has love gone" and "Across the Universe". It was not until 1999 that Holly released his 3rd solo album "Soulstream" on which he recorded a new version of "The power of love" to mark the new millenium on his own label Pleasuredome.
A limited number of tickets for the festival are still available by going to www.rewindfestival.com. Holly performs on the Saturday along with other 80's icons including Bananarama, Howard Jones, Fiction Factory and many more.

BBC Radio Scotland - Edith Bowman Album Show: ZTT Records Special, 30.07.10

A Radio broadcast from last year on BBC Radio Scotland, Edith Bowman talks with official ZTT archivist Ian Peel about upcoming ZTT releases including Frankie Goes To Hollywood & Art of Noise, with snippets of rare tracks and talk of even rarer demos.
Copy and paste the link below into your web window to hear part of the show.
http://soundcloud.com/zttrecords/bbc-radio-scotland

MAKING TRACKS

Transmitting Tuesday 19 July 2011 on BBC Radio 4 at 13h30:

"Critic and cultural commentator Paul Morley returns to the Basing Street Studios," announces BBC Radio 4, "home to Island Records and then his own ZTT label. These were the very rooms in which everyone from Led Zeppelin, Cat Stevens and Bob Marley through to Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the Art of Noise and Grace Jones recorded some of their most iconic albums."

"In the company of Island's Chris Blackwell and ZTT's Trevor Horn, as well as legendary engineer Tony Platt, Paul attempts to find out what it was about this particular space that led to some of the most memorable recordings of the 70s and 80s."

DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN'T BUY

29th August 2011 sees SFE records (Cherry Red) re-issue of the 2nd Holly Johnson solo album Dreams that money can't buy.
Originaly released in ???? the follow up to the number 1, million seller Blast was not as commercially succesful as it's predicessor, indeed neither were the 3 single taken from the album, Where has love gone, Across the Universe and The People want to dance. The album went in a different direction from the mainstream pop of Blast and had a heavier dance theme amongst it's tracks. Othe rthan the singles stand out tracks may include Boyfriend 65 which featured Holly's good friend Kirsty McColl on bcking vocals. There are also some rare tracks included on both discs of this 2CD release on disc 1 we are treated to the original album aswell as b-sides ands 12" mixes, but the intersting tracks for fans will be the previously unreleased Pete Lorimer mixes of Across the Universe & the track Natural (previously only available in Japan) on disc 2.
The 1 thing this release lacks is the exclusion of the DVD of videos as included in the Blast re-issue last year, the videos for the 1st two singles taken from this album are in particular highly sought after among Holly Johnson fans and would have made it complete along with a couple of other glaring track omissions in the form of F.R.O.7 the soundtrack to an animated movie about a secret agaent Frog and maybe even the pre Blast track Slay the Dragon recorded in 1986 (whilst Holly still fronted FGTH) for the Anti-Heroin Project.
THE FULL TRACK LISTING IS.....
Disc One - Original Album And Single B-Sides
1. Across The Universe
2. When The Party's Over
3. The People Want To Dance
4. I Need Your Love
5. Boyfriend 65
6. Where Has Love Gone?
7. Penny Arcade
8. Do It For Love
9. You're A Hit
10. The Great Love Story
11. Perfume [Aromatherapy Mix - 7" Edit]
12. Funky Paradise
13. The People Want To Dance [Apollo 440 Remix 7" Edit]
Disc Two - Remixes And Rarities
1. Where Has Love Gone? [The Search For Love Mix]
2. Where Has Love Gone? [Dreaming Mix]
3. Where Has Love Gone? [GTO Mix]
4. Across The Universe [Space A Go-Go Mix]
5. Across The Universe [Pete Lorimer 7" Remix]
6. Across The Universe [Pete Lorimer 12" Instrumental]
7. The People Want To Dance [Rave Hard! Mix]
8. The People Want To Dance [Raving Harder! Mix]
9. The People Want To Dance [Apollo 440 12" Mix]
10. The People Want To Dance [12" Dub Mix]
11. Americanos [Magimix Dub]
12. Atomic City [Enviro-Mental Instrumental]
13. Natural [Full Song Mix]
You can pre-order this album now at www.hmv.com and other online retailers