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Tracklisting 

Side A 1. Everybody’s Some- body’s Fool 2. Some Sweet Day 3. Happy Birthday 4. No One Ever Waves Goodbye 5. One Last Love Song

Side B 1. Wishful Thinking 2. Oh Dear 3. You’re Gonna Miss Me 4. East Green 5. Red Guitar

This remastered edition features brand new artwork designed by Bobby Bluebell

Pressed on 180g vinyl with a heavyweight sleeve and colour inner bag this is the first time most of these tracks have appeared on vinyl.

Back in the early 1980s, THE BLUEBELLS were part of a vanguard of Scottish pop which also included Orange Juice, Altered Images and Lloyd Cole & The Commotions.

Before signing to London Records and scoring hits such as ‘Young At Heart’ and ‘I’m Falling’, the band recorded an album’s worth of inde- pendent recordings and demos, most of which remained unreleased.

Compiled by Robert Hodgens (Bobby Bluebell) with the involvement of the rest of the band, EXILE ON TWEE STREET finally reveals the band’s roots in the indie scene of early 80s Glasgow.

Subtitled ‘Songs From Glasgow 1980-1982’ the album is crammed with glorious if at time un-selfconcious melodies. The guitar playing hammers the choppy angles of Chic into a post-punk shape as did Postcard’s Orange Juice.

The cover of The Velvets ‘I’m Set Free’ and the West Coast harmonies of ‘East Green’ are highlights but the bands breezy brilliance is heard best on ‘Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool’

The Bluebells actually demo’d songs for Alan Horne’s Postcard label, recently the subject of a critically acclaimed book by Simon Goddard entitled Simply Thrilled.

Only the track ‘Happy Birthday’ has been issued before – on a rare flexidisc!