Nowhere will be 25 years old next month! How the time has flown, looking back to 1990 we were all so wide eyed and innocent even if we didn’t realise it at the time. To celebrate the occasion Nowhere is to be re-released on double vinyl and a Deluxe CD with a bonus DVD of the March 1991 Town & Country Club show.
For the full details, read the email sent out via the official mailing stating the following:
We’re very pleased to say that today, on the 25th anniversary of the release of the Fall EP we kick off part one of our US tour at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. DIIV are supporting and will be with us on the first four shows up to and including the first Irving Plaza, NYC date, with The Besnard Lakes then picking up the baton from the second Irving Plaza show through to the end of the East Coast run at the Paradise Club in Boston on Saturday 3rd October. See full list of shows and ticket links below. We have a couple of new merchandise items for the tours this autumn that we think you might like…
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Our Nowhere 25th Anniversary releases are shaping up nicely although we have had a slight change of plan since announcing our intentions to you last month. We decided to hold back on the reissue of the single LP version of Nowhere and concentrate on the special anniversary releases.
We can confirm that on Friday 6th November we will be releasing both a Nowhere25 CD+DVD and a Nowhere25 double LP.
The double LP release will be on heavyweight blue marble vinyl in a gatefold sleeve and will feature all 15 tracks from the expanded version of Nowhere – the original eight tracks from Seagull to Vapour Trail plus the three additional tracks from the Fall EP and the four tracks from Today Forever. This release will be limited to 2000 numbered copies and you can pre-order it now from our online store as well as all other retailers (online and in store). We will be shipping copies from our store at the end of October.
Nowhere hasn’t been available on vinyl in the UK since the last copy of the original Creation Records release left the warehouse sometime in 1996. We’ve been itching to make it available once again and this year has provided that opportunity for us.
The Town & Country Club show from 7th March 1991 has been mixed by our very own Marky G and the film editing will be completed this weekend in DC by Matt Levin. We have compiled the artwork which includes the lyrics to all 15 tracks on the expanded Nowhere CD plus new sleeve notes written by Andy B compiled using the help of fans via a Twitter Q&A. Many thanks to all of you who participated in both that and the call in the last newsletter for Nowhere-era photos and images for possible use in the booklet. We were inundated!
We have just uploaded one of the finished clips from the DVD (Dreams Burn Down, no less) to our YouTube channel. Can you spot your 20-year-old self in the crowd?
The CD+DVD will be packaged similarly to the Going Blank Again 20th Anniversary release that we compiled in 2012 – a hardback cardboard case with canvas-style cover and a 36-page booklet. You may remember that back then we put together a special offer for all our newsletter readers who ordered GBA20 in advance. Well we’d like to do something similar this time round for Nowhere25.
The first 2000 copies of this 25th Anniversary Edition CD+DVD will be numbered and 50 of these 2000 will be randomly selected to be signed by all four of us. Also, these first 2000 numbered copies are available now for you to pre-order for just £20 each. After the pre-sale has finished (or when these first 2000 have sold), the price will rise to £24. We anticipate that the Nowhere25 CD+DVD will be ready to ship at the end of October.
Everyone who pre-orders a copy of Nowhere25 through our store will exclusively get a free MP3 (320kbps) download of all the live tracks on the Town & Country Club ‘91 DVD so that you can enjoy the full sonic hi-fi delights of the show. These will be available to download when the copies of Nowhere25 are ready to ship.
Moreover, we will be donating £1 from every sale to War Child’s Syrian Refugee Crisis appeal. You may remember that Andy and Mark played a War Child Passport Back to Bars acoustic show at the 100 Club in London back in February and we pledged then to work with War Child again when we could.
We will also be auctioning numbers 0001 to 0010 of the Nowhere25 CD+DVD. If you would like to get your hands on one of these first ten copies then please email your bid back to tnk@ridemusic.net once you’ve ordered your copy through our store. Your bid will be an additional amount on top of the special £20 pre-order price and we will allocate 0001 to the highest bidder and 0010 to the tenth highest bidder. The auction will close on Thursday October 15th – the 25th anniversary of Nowhere’s original UK release. All the money raised from the auction will also go to the War Child’s Syrian Refugee Crisis campaign. Each of these 10 copies will, of course, be signed by all four of us.
The Nowhere25 celebrations will start tonight in DC and once we return from the US we pretty much go straight into our nine-date UK tour:
Sunday 11th October: O2 Academy, Leeds
Monday 12th: UEA, Norwich
Wednesday 14th: O2 Academy, Brixton
Thursday 15th: O2 Academy, Liverpool
Saturday 17th: Anson Rooms, Bristol SOLD OUT
Sunday 18th: O2 Academy, Newcastle
Monday 19th: Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
Wednesday 21st: Rock City, Nottingham
Thursday 22nd: Institute, Birmingham
Tickets links here: www.ridemusic.net/live
Just before the tour starts, we have been invited to host one of the Guardian’s Classic Album Sundays events on Wednesday 7th October at Cecil Sharp House in London. Nowhere will get a spin on a top-notch sound system and we will be there to discuss the making of the album and answer any questions you have. There may even be canapés; but we’re not able to confirm that. Tickets are available here.
November takes us back to the US. Has anyone noticed that we go from playing Birmingham on this side of the Atlantic at the end of the UK tour to playing Birmingham, Alabama at the start of the next US leg? Neat. The full list of November US dates are below and will lead us back to SE Asia where our two shows in Japan (Osaka and Tokyo) have been augmented with festival appearances at Clockenflap in Hong Kong and Neon Lights in Singapore over the weekend of 27th-29th November.
Read the review of the original 1990 release from Select Magazine below.
