B-Movie 'Hidden Treasures' LP pre-order (release date 30th May)
B-Movie - 'Hidden Treasures’ LP.
In May 1981, B-Movie and Soft Cell went into Advision Studios in London with the same producer, Mike Thorne (Wire, Bronski Beat, China Crisis, The Communards) to record singles for the label they were both signed to. Phonogram had really wanted to sign B-Movie but had also committed to Soft Cell, having been coerced into it by Stev0, who managed both artists and wouldn’t let them have one without the other.
All of the recordings the band made during their Phonogram period have been consigned to the Universal Music vault for several decades, with the band finally managing to have these returned in 2024. The various tapes have been digitised and restored, resulting in the creation of what would have been their 1982 debut LP ‘that never was’. So “Hidden Treasures” from B-Movie, is only four decades late but still able to sit seamlessly alongside contemporaries like The Chameleons and The Sound. The LP is a darker, more brooding and psychedelic affair, more akin to the gothic elements of the Bunnymen or Joy Division, than the ‘pop sensations’ Phonogram wanted them to become. By both opening and closing this chapter of B-Movie, it puts them firmly in the same bracket as their new wave and post-punk contemporaries, which is the least they deserve, as one of the great ‘lost’ bands of the early 1980’s.
This LP is released on Friday 30th May.
We are taking orders for this LP - guarantee your copy now!
All preorders will be sent so that you will receive it on release date (UK only and subject to Royal Mail delivery).
TRACKLISTING -
Side 1
1. Citizen Kane
2. Remembrance Day
3. Polar Opposites
4. Marilyn Dreams
5. Ice
Side 2
1. La Lune Lunatique
2. All Fall Down
3. Nowhere Girl
4. Crowds
5. Beginning To Fade
B-Movie - 'Hidden Treasures’ LP.
In May 1981, B-Movie and Soft Cell went into Advision Studios in London with the same producer, Mike Thorne (Wire, Bronski Beat, China Crisis, The Communards) to record singles for the label they were both signed to. Phonogram had really wanted to sign B-Movie but had also committed to Soft Cell, having been coerced into it by Stev0, who managed both artists and wouldn’t let them have one without the other.
All of the recordings the band made during their Phonogram period have been consigned to the Universal Music vault for several decades, with the band finally managing to have these returned in 2024. The various tapes have been digitised and restored, resulting in the creation of what would have been their 1982 debut LP ‘that never was’. So “Hidden Treasures” from B-Movie, is only four decades late but still able to sit seamlessly alongside contemporaries like The Chameleons and The Sound. The LP is a darker, more brooding and psychedelic affair, more akin to the gothic elements of the Bunnymen or Joy Division, than the ‘pop sensations’ Phonogram wanted them to become. By both opening and closing this chapter of B-Movie, it puts them firmly in the same bracket as their new wave and post-punk contemporaries, which is the least they deserve, as one of the great ‘lost’ bands of the early 1980’s.
This LP is released on Friday 30th May.
We are taking orders for this LP - guarantee your copy now!
All preorders will be sent so that you will receive it on release date (UK only and subject to Royal Mail delivery).
TRACKLISTING -
Side 1
1. Citizen Kane
2. Remembrance Day
3. Polar Opposites
4. Marilyn Dreams
5. Ice
Side 2
1. La Lune Lunatique
2. All Fall Down
3. Nowhere Girl
4. Crowds
5. Beginning To Fade
B-Movie - 'Hidden Treasures’ LP.
In May 1981, B-Movie and Soft Cell went into Advision Studios in London with the same producer, Mike Thorne (Wire, Bronski Beat, China Crisis, The Communards) to record singles for the label they were both signed to. Phonogram had really wanted to sign B-Movie but had also committed to Soft Cell, having been coerced into it by Stev0, who managed both artists and wouldn’t let them have one without the other.
All of the recordings the band made during their Phonogram period have been consigned to the Universal Music vault for several decades, with the band finally managing to have these returned in 2024. The various tapes have been digitised and restored, resulting in the creation of what would have been their 1982 debut LP ‘that never was’. So “Hidden Treasures” from B-Movie, is only four decades late but still able to sit seamlessly alongside contemporaries like The Chameleons and The Sound. The LP is a darker, more brooding and psychedelic affair, more akin to the gothic elements of the Bunnymen or Joy Division, than the ‘pop sensations’ Phonogram wanted them to become. By both opening and closing this chapter of B-Movie, it puts them firmly in the same bracket as their new wave and post-punk contemporaries, which is the least they deserve, as one of the great ‘lost’ bands of the early 1980’s.
This LP is released on Friday 30th May.
We are taking orders for this LP - guarantee your copy now!
All preorders will be sent so that you will receive it on release date (UK only and subject to Royal Mail delivery).
TRACKLISTING -
Side 1
1. Citizen Kane
2. Remembrance Day
3. Polar Opposites
4. Marilyn Dreams
5. Ice
Side 2
1. La Lune Lunatique
2. All Fall Down
3. Nowhere Girl
4. Crowds
5. Beginning To Fade