Coming Soon (Apr 25, 2025)

Various Artists - Gather In The Mushrooms - The British Folk Underground 1969-1975

Compiled by Bob Stanley to document the acid folk scene, "Gather In The Mushrooms" was first issued in 2004 on Sanctuary as a CD-only release; it proved popular enough for a sequel entitled "Early Morning Hush" two years later.

This new edition of "Gather In The Mushrooms" contains the cream of both long-deleted compilations with a few additions - COB, Roy Harper, Fotheringay - that weren't available to Sanctuary at the time.

Available on CD (18 Tracks) and 2XLP (19 Tracks)

01 Corn Rigs - Magnet & Paul Giovanni
02 Morning Way - Trader Horne
03 Nottamun Town - Oberon
04 Graveyard - Forest
05 The Skater - Midwinter
06 Winter Winds - Fotheringay
07 Lord And Master - Heron
08 Fly High - Bridget St John
09 Sheep Season - Mellow Candle
10 The Seagulls Scream - Christine Quayle
11 Forest And The Shore - Keith Christmas
12 Rosemary Hill - Fresh Maggots
13 Fine Horseman - Anne Briggs
14 The Werewolf - Barry Dransfield
15 Another Day - Roy Harper
16 Window Over The Bay - Vashti Bunyan
17 Eleven Willows - COB (Clive's Original Band)
18 The Herald - Comus

Bonus Track on LP: The Bells Of Dunwich - Stone Angel

Out Today

Various Artists - Bob Stanley Presents Liverpool Sunset The City After Merseybeat 1964-1969

Compiled by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and available on CD

01 It's A Crime - The Kirkbys
02 Find Out What's Happening - Tiffany with The Thoughts
03 Nobody Like My Babe - The Dennisons
04 Just To Be With You - Johnny Gustafson (Aka Johnny Gus & Johnny Gus Set)
05 It's Almost Good - Eddie Cave & The Fyx
06 You Don't Have To Whisper - The Dimensions
07 Whatcha Gonna Do - Jason Eddie & The Centremen
08 Don't Let A Little Pride (Stand In Your Way) - Billy Fury
09 Imagination - The Clayton Squares
10 Come On Back - Paul & Ritchie & The Crying Shames
11 Never Leave Your Baby's Side - Tony Jackson
12 The Cat - The Merseys
13 Atmosphere - The Wimple Winch
14 So Much To Love - McGough & McGear
15 Michaelangelo - 23rd Turnoff
16 Summer Comes Sunday - Swinging Blue Jeans
17 A Man Without A Face - The Chants
18 Abyssinian Secret - Cilla Black
19 We're Doing Fine - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas
20 Come On - The Carrolls
21 Constantly Changing - The Koobas
22 Girl On The Corner - Focal Point
23 It Happens All The Time - Crackers
24 Into My Life She Came - The Penny Peeps

Alone Together

Alone Together on sale at 5pm GMT today

Official Email From The Band

Alone Together on sale at 5pm GMT tomorrow

"Alone Together"

We're pleased to announce that our new single 'Alone Together' will be available to pre-order from 5pm GMT next Wednesday 26th February. This release will be pressed as a limited edition 12" - on both Black and Apricot coloured vinyl - plus a four track CD EP.

The 12 Inch features two brand new remixes of 'Alone Together'... the 'Hove Lawns Sunset Mix' by Pete, plus the sublime 'Morecambe Pier Dub' by Bob and Augustin Bousfield.

The CD EP includes two extra mixes... Colleen Murphy's stunning, bossanova 'Cosmodelica Mix' plus an extended mix of the original LP version.

These will be available exclusively via our online shop from next Wednesday - please click the link in our bio here to take a closer look.

All three versions of the single will be pressed to order, so everyone placing their order within 24 hours of the onsale time will get lucky. And yes, the recordings will be available on all good streaming platforms following shipment and delivery of the physical stock in April.

Stay tuned for a full reveal of the ‘Alone Together’ video and more new music soon.

Lots of love,

Bob, Pete and Sarah
xxx

Bob and Pete Meet With Heavenly Recordings

1990
Bush Ranger Pub, Shepherd's Bush, London, England
55 Goldhawk Road

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The Night

Official Messaging From Saint Etienne Headquarters

"If you're trying to buy The Night on LP or CD, the re-press was ordered on the 4th Jan and PIAS say it should be arriving before the end of the month. There has been a change of staff at PIAS but it should all be sorted soon. Apologies for the delay."

Caroline Now

Caroline Now - The Songs Of Brian Wilson And The Beach Boys

Originally released in 2000 and the first appearance of Saint Etienne's Cover of Stevie

Reissued on 2XLP (1000 Copies) for Record Store Day 2025 (Apr 12)

A1 Eugene Kelly - Lady
A2 Alex Chilton - I Want To Pick You Up
A3 June & The Exit Wounds - All I Wanna Do
A4 Katrina Mitchell & Bill Wells - Wind Chimes
A5 The High Llamas - Anna Lee, The Healer
A6 Souvenir - Ne Dis Pas (Girl Don't Tell Me) (French Version])
B1 Duglas T. Stewart - Lines
B2 Camping Busy Doin' Nothin'
B3 Stevie Jackson - Good Time
B4 The Free Design - Endless Harmony
B5 The Pearlfishers - Go Away Boy
B6 Saint Etienne - Stevie
C1 The Radio Sweethearts - Honkin' Down The Highway
C2 Eric Matthews - Lonely Sea
C3 Kle - Rainbow Eyes
C4 Chip Taylor & Evie Sands - Let's Put Our Hearts Together
C5 Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Pet Sounds
C6 Malcolm Ross - Heroes And Villains
D1 Norman Blake - Only With You
D2 The Aluminum Group Caroline, No
D3 Jad Fair - Do Ya
D4 The Secret Goldfish - Big Sur
D5 David Ritchie Coalition - Good Timin'
D6 Kim Fowley - Almost Summer

The Record Club

Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley was on Bradford Community Broadcasting Radio 106.6 FM for the Record Club. Rob, Will, and Bob talked about "The Night" and the upcoming second single Alone Together.

Bob Stanley DJ Set

Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley will be doing a DJ set at Rough Trade East in London for a couple of hours on Feb 1, 2025.

Out Today (Jan 31, 2025)

Norma Tanega - I Don't Think It Will Hurt If You Smile

Liner Notes by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and available on CD & Vinyl

01 Now Is The Time
02 Beautiful Things
03 Illusion
04 Cowfold (instrumental)
05 Magic Day
06 Hampton Court
07 What More In This World Could Anyone Be Living For (Version 2)
08 Clapham Junction (instrumental)
09 Elephants Angels And Roses
10 Antarctic Rose
11 Stranger
12 Barrel Organ Blues (instrumental)
13 Nothing Much Is Happening Today
14 What More In This World Could Anyone Be Living For (Version 1)
15 Upper Osterley (instrumental)
16 A Goodbye Song
17 Barrel Organ
18 Alternator Man
19 Upside Down Town
20 Magic Day (demo)

Out Today (Jan 31, 2025)

Various Artists - American Baroque - Chamber Pop And Beyond 1967 - 1971

Compiled by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and available on CD & Vinyl

01 You're A Very Lovely Woman - The Merry-Go-Round
02 I Shall Call Her Mary - The Montage
03 Raggedy Ann - John Randolph Marr
04 Tulu Rogers - Appaloosa
05 Turnaway - The Pleasure Fair
06 Different Drum - The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt
07 Emily's Illness - Nora Guthrie
08 Barefoot Gentleman - The Association
09 Land Of Sensations & Delights - J.K. & Co
10 Blue Jack Of Diamonds - H.P. Lovecraft
11 Time - Bonnie Dobson
12 Satin Slipper - The Blades of Grass
13 My Silent Symphony - Chris & Peter Allen
14 Mr Webster - The Monkees
15 Again Again - Eternity's Children
16 My Plan - Russ Giguere
17 Fairest Of The Seasons - Nico
18 Other Times - Tom Northcott
19 You Lied - The Neon Philharmonic
20 Close To Carmel - The Fun & Games
21 Home Before Dark - Nora Guthrie
22 I Have Been Alone - The Common People
23 Two By Two (I'm Losing You) - Steve Martin
24 Lorelei - Rosebud

Postlude

Timeline and Other Projects

Check out Sarah Cracknells' five other musical projects pre-Saint Etienne

Check out Sarah Cracknells' timeline pre 1990, pre Saint Etienne

Check out Sarah Cracknells' collaborations over the years

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Interlude 9 (Bonus)

Before Saint Etienne

Shortly before joining Saint Etienne Sarah Cracknell was one half of an electronic duo called LoveCut DB

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Interlude 8 (Bonus)

Before Saint Etienne

Sarah Cracknell goes Solo in 1987 with the help of her friend Mick Bund and releases a single called Love Is All You Need with the spectacular B-side Coastal Town

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Prelude 8 (Bonus)

Before Saint Etienne

Sarah Cracknell was getting some records pressed up here in 1987.

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Before Saint Etienne

Oblivion River

In 1986, Oblivion River were Mick Bund (Future Mexico 70) and Saint Etienne's Sarah Cracknell

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Before Saint Etienne

Prime Time

Prime Time were Saint Etienne's Sarah Cracknell and Mick Bund (Future Mexico 70) circa 1984 to 1986.

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Before Saint Etienne

Worried Parachutes

Saint Etienne's Sarah Cracknell was lead singer of the Worried Parachutes which formed in September 1981 and broke up in 1983.

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I Love To Paint

In January 1995 Saint Etienne fans started to receive the first Fanclub release from Saint Etienne. I Love To Paint, a 12 track CD, was the result of the band rummaging through five years worth of Saint Etienne tapes for unreleased material. The release was limited to 500 copies.

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Postlude

Timeline and Other Projects

Check out Bob and Pete's eight other musical projects outside of Saint Etienne

Check out Bob and Pete's timeline pre 1990, pre Saint Etienne

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Before Saint Etienne

The Next Projected Sound (Circa 1988 & 1989)

Pete, Bob and Andrew Midgley formed this side project and were active in the late eighties. They were The Next Projected Sound for their "pisspoor 1988 attempt at acid house", mainly memorable for Richard Norris coming to the studio and lending them his 303. Tracks were recorded across two sessions but never released.

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Interlude 5 of 7

Before Saint Etienne

Forever Drone (Circa 1986)

Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley is in a band with Andrew Midgley (Cola Boy) called Forever Drone named after a Josef K song (rumour)

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Before Saint Etienne

Reardon (Circa 1983/84)

Around 83/84, Bob and Pete created their semi-famous 'party tapes', they chose the nom de guerre Reardon. The thinking here was that nobody from the UK would use the name because of Ray Reardon the aged snooker player, therefore the name would sound like an authentic NY electro artiste. Our assumption is that 'We Survived' came out of this session.

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Before Saint Etienne

The Lost Chapel Picnic (Circa Early Eighties)

At the height of DIY in the early eighties, Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs hired a portastudio for a week, with a Korg MS 10 they'd saved up for, and created an unlistenable noise under the name The Lost Chapel Picnic. This has never been released.

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Cat Music

Pollards Hill Mitcham, around this time 35 years ago.

Ian Catt: "They came in to record some demos - I'd worked with the Field Mice, and Bob had asked Bobby Wratten where they did their stuff. The original recording was done in January 1990 at my mum's place in Pollards Hill. They'd said they were going to start a group and make records in the 90s - such a stereotypically Saint Etienne thing to say. And so in January there they were."

Ian Catt: "As far as I'm concerned they were making a demo! Two songs in an afternoon. We didn't really have much time to think about it."

Ian Catt: "It was amazingly quick. They left clutching their demo and I didn't really expect to see them again. Then two months later they were back."

The assumption is that the two songs were Only Love Can Break Your Heart and Kiss And Make Up. Vocals for the two songs were done initially by Moira Lambert. Kiss and Make Up would be re-recorded with Donna Savage as vocalist and released in October of this year.

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The Ship

Croydon, around this time 35 years ago.

"There was one pub in Croydon where everyone into alternative music went, The Ship. There was a really diverse mix of goths, indie kids, greebos and old rockers who drank there, with a couple of big skinhead lads on the door. That’s where I met Pete’s brother Danny(Wiggs) and we were very close for a few years. When his brother and Bob Stanley decided to start a band they had the idea of using different singers for each song, so they asked Moira(Lambert) to record a couple of demos for them. It took about five hours to record from start to finish in a bedroom studio and was never even meant to be released. But it went on to be a massive cult hit – I still hear it on the radio thirty years later, it’s amazing. They gave her some money when it became clear it was doing well. Whenever I hear it now it takes me right back to that bedroom studio." Mark Wilsher, Faith Over Reason*

Moira Lambert, Faith Over Reason, was the vocalist on the single Only Love Can Break Your Heart which was recorded in January of 1990 and released in May of the same year. *Quote taken from the Feb 25, 2024 interview by Cloudberry Cake Proselytism Blog

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61 Dartmouth Park Road

Saint Etienne's Bob and Pete moved to Tuffnell Park, London in January 35 years ago and rented the basement flat in this London house from landlady Louise.

Homebase for the start of Saint Etienne with some friends already living in the area.

Bob ran Caff records out of this location and fans could write to Saint Etienne at this address

Word is that Lucy Gillie, who was a member of Saint Etienne's Icerink Label's Golden and appeared in the first music video miming Only Love Can Break Your Heart, lived in the house above.

The Foxbase Alpha cover photo was taken at the bottom of this road

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Discosis

Third issue of Saint Etienne Disco's annual Newsletter 'Discosis' is out today. A DIY cut and paste 22 page digital document put together with contributions from Saint Etienne Fans and the Saint Etienne Discography. A nice summary of what happened in 2024 and what's in store so far for 2025.

Prelude 7 of 7



What is the next projected sound?
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Dark Star


In late December 2024, Pete Wiggs did a 22 song mix for Amateurism Radio. Check out the details and get a link to the mix in the Mix Tapes, Mixes, Playlists section of the Discography.

Prelude 6 of 7


Are you ready for the journey along Oblivion River?
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Prelude 5 of 7


Drone, is a minimalist genre of music that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tone clusters called drones. #saintetienne35

Prelude 4 of 7

Are you ready for prime time?
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Prelude 3 of 7

Are you up for a game?
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Prelude 2 of 7

Do you have your parachute?
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Prelude 1 of 7

Are you ready for the picnic?
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Happy New Year

2025 looks to be another exciting year on the Saint Etienne front. Too Young To Die turns 30 this year, The Sound Of Water album turns 25 this year, and Tales From Turnpike House turns 20. The band are targeting to release new material in the Summer. More info in the third issue of the Saint Etienne Disco newsletter 'Discosis' out next week. Keep your eyes on this website for news as it happens. Keep your eyes locked on the 2025 Tracker for Saint Etienne related releases as they are announced.