Just a quick reminder that the Cherry Red 4 CD ‘Waiting For The Weekend’ box set is released on Friday this week. Focussing on the years ‘79-‘81, it couples the New Clear Days and Magnets albums with b sides, demos, unreleased tracks and a legendary live recording from 1980. Order yours here
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News  Following numerous requests from fans, we’re pleased to announce that both New Clear Days and Magnets are to be reissued on vinyl by Demon this autumn. The albums will be issued on 180 gm coloured vinyl, NCD on yellow/black and Magnets on clear, featuring the original UK tracklistings and inner sleeves. The release date for both reissues is 1st October and you can pre-order them from various retailers here News A new film entitled ‘We Lived Off Words That No One Heard (Live From The Factory)’ is to be screened later in 2021. The film couples footage of the band playing live at the Factory in Worthing with interviews with band members past & present as well as fellow artists and fans. The live set features tracks from New Clear Days, Magnets and the live debut of songs from the Together album. More details on this exciting, self-produced project coming soon… News The Vapors have been confirmed to appear at the rescheduled Stone Valley North festival, which takes place at Stanhope Castle in Co. Durham on the 24th-26th September this year. The Vapors are playing on the Sunday and more details & tickets can be found here News Yet another band member birthday today! This time it’s the turn of bass legend Steve Smith. Many happy returns of the day Mr S x News We are pleased to announce that Cherry Red Records, in conjunction with the band and R and T Industries, are releasing a comprehensive 4 CD boxset covering the band’s entire UA and Liberty recordings on the 13th of August. Continue reading Waiting For The Weekend 4CD boxsetNews We’re pleased to confirm that The Vapors are appearing as special guests of The Skids at the Assembly in Leamington Spa on Thursday 4th November. Tickets are onsale now here  News …to the other guitarist! Happy birthday to Dan ‘Danny’ Fenton today hope you have a fantastic day Mr F Junior x News We’d like to wish many happy returns of the day to Ed Bazalgette. Hope you have a great day Mr B x Features  Forty years ago this week saw the release of the band’s sixth (and final) single ‘Jimmie Jones’, taken from the ‘Magnets’ LP, which Liberty had decided to commission a promo video for. Clearly they felt that it had a better chance of radio & TV coverage and commercial success compared to the previous single ‘Spiders’. We thought that it would be interesting to focus on the making of the JJ video with anecdotes and memories from those who were there on the day, including all four band members. Continue reading Making the Jimmie Jones video |
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