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he reunited co-founders
of Art Of Noise − Anne
Dudley, JJ Jeczalik and Gary
Langan − are considering
more live shows following
their successful comeback at Liverpool
Sound City on 25 May. “We’re very
inspired by the gig so hopefully there
will be some more shows, so watch
this space,” Dudley told Classic Pop.
“I have also just recorded an album
for a Japanese label called Anne
Dudley plays the Art Of Noise, all
based around the piano.”
Revisiting the AoN back catalogue
has been a labour of love for the trio.
“As Theresa May said: ‘it’s a coalition
of chaos’,” quipped Dudley.
“It’s great actually, because coming
back to stuff we did 30 years ago,
you sort of listen and think, ‘oh gosh,
we did all that with the naivety of
youth’. There’s a sort of freshness to
it that you can’t recreate, so it’s been
lots of fun.”Dudley was
honoured with
the Outstanding
Contribution to
British Music prize
at the Ivor Novello
Awards on 18 May,
presented by Pet Shop Boy
Neil Tennant.
She teased afterwards: “We’re
doing some more collaborations
because I love Neil to death, he’s
so talented and he’s musically literate
and clever. Him and Chris are
a great combination.”Purple heirs
Prince’s sisters and brothers will
inherit his $200 million estate.
The Purple Rain legend
passed away at his Paisley Park
complex on 21 April last year,
but did not leave a will. After
a long deliberation, Minnesota
judge Kevin Eide ruled that, in
the absence of a will, his heirs
are sister Tyka Nelson and fi ve
half-siblings – Sharon Nelson,
Norrine Nelson, John Nelson,
Omarr Baker and Alfred Jackson.
More than 45 people fi led claims
to the late singer’s estate.
Meanwhile, sound engineer
George Ian Boxill, who worked
with Prince, has been barred
from publishing or disseminating
any unreleased recordings that
compromise Prince after he tried
releasing unheard material.Dress you up
in 80s love
Sara Cox has raided the fancy
dress cupboard to pay homage to
the stars of her Sounds Of The
80s show.
The DJ recreated classic album
covers by Adam Ant, Kylie
Minogue, Roxy Music and Pet
Shop Boys to promote her BBC
Radio 2 Friday night slot which
features hits, album tracks, 12”
singles and rarities.
Earlier this year Sara, whose
80s heroes include Neneh Cherry
and The Stone Roses, completed
a Comic Relief 80’s danceathon −
raising more than £800,000 for
the charity.
Catch up on Sara’s 80s
interviews, nostalgia and
innovations via BBC iPlayer or
on the BBC Radio 2 website at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2.Pet Shop Boys have announced details of
Catalogue: 1985-2012, a special series of
reissues of all their studio albums released
on Parlophone. This defi nitive edition will
feature each album from the duo’s peerless
discography on the label, remastered and
accompanied by ‘further listening’ LPs
of master quality bonus tracks and demos
created in the same period of time as each
album, as well as Pet Shop Boys own
remixes of their tracks.
Each album will be packaged with an
extensive booklet in which Neil Tennant and
Chris Lowe discuss each song, illustrated with
many archive photographs. The entire project
is designed by Farrow.
The reissue series begins on 28 July, with
the release of three very different-sounding PSB
albums: Nightlife, Release and Fundamental.
Nightlife, their darkly
orchestrated collaboration
with producers Rollo, Craig
Armstrong and David
Morales, originally released
in 1999, is reissued with two
further listening CDs.Also seeing a remastered reissue will be
the album Release, featuring Johnny Marr on
guitar, and Fundamental, their magnifi cent
Trevor Horn-produced album which made the
Top 10 in 2006.
The ‘Catalogue’ reissues will continue over
the next year until all PSB Parlophone albums
have been
released
with further
listening
albums.Pet Shop Boys remastered & reissued
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