Banshees-Remasters, Radio Sessions, Etc.

[cubby]

This news according to Steve Severin's website:

Dear All,

Season's greetings from bonnie Scotland. Just to keep you simmering I thought I would officially bring you up to speed.

REMASTER PROGRAM
I recently went down the vaults and finalised the options for the extras on the next batch of 4 albums:- DREAMHOUSE, NOCTURNE, HYAENA & TINDERBOX. All the tapes are now with our new engineer, Paschal and we should be receiving reference CDRs in the New Year. We then take a vote on what to include or exclude. All 4 are in the Universal schedule for late March/early April next year.

BANSHEES @ THE BEEB
Universal now have a dedicated department to deal with all the material the BBC are offering for release. With the success of VOICES ON THE AIR, Universal have invited us to prepare a 4 disc box set of ALL our radio sessions and selected live concert recordings.

I have just received listening copies of everything they have and already it's looking marvellous. For sure all the radio sessions will be included (Peel, Skinner, Jensen, Long, Radcliffe) and I've cherry picked the best of the live concerts (Warwick, Oxford & Royal Albert Hall).

My criteria is obviously audio quality foremost but I am attempting not to duplicate too much and where possible use the version that has the original guitarist playing e.g. McGeoch on Spellbound, Carruthers on Candyman, Klein on Killing Jar. So...I've done a provisional running order and again reference discs are being prepared for everyone. This department seems to work twice as fast as the main back catalogue one so don't be surprised if the box set surfaces BEFORE the remasters but you can never tell.

Merry Christmas ~ Happy Hogmanay and get stuffed:)

Steven

[crystal]

thanks for the info, sounds really promising, hopefully it all works out as planned!
great to see Universal bother a bit more these days about all those excellent BBC Sessions + recorded gigs - hopefully other artists on Universal benefit as well, a multiple disc The Cure @ The Beeb Box would be nice as well...

[zoon]

Anybody knows what happened to the Deluxe vesion of JU-JU? I didn't buy the remastered cd waiting for it, but I've heard nothing about it for more than a year.

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