Webcuts Music

With last years re-release of seminal debut albums from the Beggars Banquet catalogue by Bauhaus and Gary Numan, the release sheet this year for the Beggars Archive series look just as compelling, if not moreso. For fans of The Fall, both “The Wonderful and Frightening World Of” and “This Nation’s Saving Grace” (Webcuts twin favourite Fall albums of all-time) will be coming out remastered and repackaged as 4CD and 3CD sets respectively, as well as the entire This Mortal Coil back catalogue, and Pixies’ “Doolittle” apparently marked for blu-ray. Full details, taken from the Beggars Archive website are below. No release dates have been pencilled in as yet.

THE FALL – The tapes have been transferred, licenses to issue radio session material  applied for, no objections from Mark E. Smith, so we’re almost ready to announce a track listing. The releases won’t come out before the new Fall album on Domino but “Wonderful And Frightening World Of” will be a 4 CD set and ‘This Nation’s Saving Grace” expanded into a 3 disc set. The Fall re-issues are slowly making their pilgrimage towards a release date.

One of the ideas behind the Omnibus releases is to include a contemporaneous live recording of the songs but this won’t happen on this release as the master tapes for two radio recordings, from Clitheroe Castle and Bremen, have been lost or thrown out. Careless. It’ll still be a 3 disc set though, with a second disc of the rough mixes and selected out-takes and a third disc of singles and relevant tracks from John Peel sessions. Also found is a completed master for Ma Riley, an unreleased, Bo’s beat song originally intended as the bonus track on the “Cruiser’s Creek” 12”.

THIS MORTAL COIL – The first two albums have been re-mastered and approved. Initially all three albums will be issued in newly artworked (by Vaughan Oliver) gatefold, Japanese paper sleeves and also put into a box along with a 4th CD of all the singles. The analogue master tapes are also being transferred to digital at 24 bit / 96khz (as is our standard practice) but with the emergence of Blu-ray audio we may do a release so that you can bathe in the wonderment of genuinely improved sound quality.

PIXIES Doolittle Omnibus Edition – The surround mix of “Doolittle” is slowly coming together and we’re looking to interview everyone involved with the album for the Omnibus booklet. The demo tapes will be mastered soon (or as soon as The Fall is finished).