Caroline International will issue an SDE-curated 2CD deluxe edition of It’s Immaterial‘s 1986 debut album Life’s Hard And Then You Die, this summer.It’s Immaterial were a Liverpool-based indie-pop band, active during the whole of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. They were championed by John Peel in the early years and issued a number of singles and EPs between 1981 and 1984 on independent labels, before being signed to Virgin Records’ imprint Siren, in 1985.Originally a larger outfit, by 1984 the band were reduced to a duo of John Campbell (vocals, guitar) and multi-instrumentalist Jarvis Whitehead. Thanks for your email with the tracklisting of the Deluxe Edition for this album, Paul.

It appears to be very thorough and looks as though it covers everything released on Siren around the original album as well as a couple of tracks I’m not familiar with (Kissing With Lord Herbert and The Enthusiast’s Song Version of We’ll Turn Things Upside Down). Would love to have had a few more demos as really enjoy hearing how songs have been developed by a band and the producer during the recording of albums.

Also, pity we couldn’t get to hear the Jerry Harrison-produced version of Driving after all this time. Still, this looks to be an excellent release and I’ll definitely be making a purchase from my local HMV on release day. Thanks for suggesting this title for a deluxe reissue to the record company. In all honesty I never thought this album would ever get such a treatment as it never really sold that well. Now let’s hope the crowdfunding project for ‘House For Sale’ kicks off soon. Morning Paul,Great news on this forthcoming SDE.

This week in 1986, IT’S IMMATERIAL released the single DRIVING AWAY FROM HOME (JIM'S TUNE), (March 1986). Formed in 1980 by three former members of Yachts – vocalist John Campbell, guitarist Martin Dempsey and vocalist and keyboardist Henry Priestman, plus Paul Barlow on drums – IT’S IMMATERIAL stepped forth from the burgeoning art-school scene of. Jun 10, 2016  It’s Immaterial: A Giant Raft In The Phillipines UK 7″ 1981 A Gigantic Raft In The Phillipines; No Place For A Prompter; This single was released on Liverpool indie Inevitable in 1982, only to be re-issued the next year on The Wonderful World Of.

Love this LP and have prior to (WMH/Fish Waltz/Gigantic Raft) singles – would be great to have these and associated b sides (especially ‘When the Revolution Comes’) on CD!FYI – I added myself to the mailing list. However I have not received an email and I have also checked my spam/junk and it is not in there.Can you add my email manually to the list please? Keep up the great work. You are my daily fix of all things SDE and cost me a fortuneRegardsMichael.

Very, very good news, speaking as another victim of bronze rot on my original copy.And as others have already commented, let’s hope this is followed by a deluxe version of ‘Song’. A genuine lost gem of the 90s, that one: the Blue Nile meets Mike Leigh. So at odds with the times it arrived in, and all the better for it.

Melancholic, quietly desperate and uplifting in equal measures; very, very English tales of everyday life. What a fine album.Hopes were high back then for hearing where messrs Campbell and Whitehead’s experimental spirit would take them next, but, well we’re still waiting to find out more than 25 years later.

We’re pleased to confirm the full track listing of the forthcoming 30th anniversary deluxe reissue of the It’s Immaterial album Life’s Hard And Then You DieAs you will see below, the first disc contains the remastered 10-track album plus a whopping nine bonus tracks including B-sides and single versions. There are some fantastic tracks amongst these, including the seven-inch, shorter version of Washing The Air (which surely should have been on the album) and Only The Lonely. Those tracks were the B-side to the original Ed’s Funky Diner and then the reissued Ed’s, respectively.Washing The Air (Rub A Dub Mix) features on CD 2 of the reissueThe second CD includes the band’s (previously unreleased) last Peel Session (where they played four tracks from the album), all the remixes and mops up a few further extra tracks, ending with the 4-track demo of Driving Away From Home. In fact there are five versions of Driving, on this deluxe set, along with three versions of Ed’s Funky Diner. If you’re already a fan, you’ll know he 12-inch versions are epic, and in some cases, very different from the seven-inch/album cuts.In total, 12 tracks have never been issued on CD, but none of them have ever sounded this good.

This new edition of Life’s Hard And Then You Die comes packaged as a gatefold card wallet and features a 16-page booklet with a track-by-track commentary by the band.This is due for release on 1 July 2016. If you are interested in It’s Immaterial and/or this reissue, make sure you’ve added your name to the mailing list (see below) because there is more to tell you in the next few weeks (I’m considering organising an event in London, for example). Disc One – Original Album Remastered, plus B-sides & single versions. 1. Driving Away From Home (Jim’s Tune) 4.12.

2. Happy Talk 5.28. 3. Rope 3.34.

4. The Better Idea 5.41. 5. Space 3.58. 6.

The Sweet Life 4.38. 7. Festival Time 3.52. 8. Ed’s Funky Diner 3.04. 9. Hang On Sleepy Town 4.20.

10. Lullaby 6.25. 11. Washing The Air 3.23. 12.

We’ll Turn Things Upside Down (The Enthusiasts Song) 4.29. 13. Only The Lonely 3.46. 14.

A Crooked Tune 3.40. 15. Autodata 3. Trains, Boats, Planes 3.49. 16. Hereby Hangs A Tale 4.07. 17.

Kissing With Lord Herbert 2.59. 18. Driving Away From Home (Jim’s Tune) (single version) 3.51. 19. Space (single version) 4.04Disc Two – Peel Sessions & Remixes. 1. Space (John Peel Session) 3.47.

2. Hang On Sleepy Town (John Peel Session) 4.10. 3.

Festival Time (John Peel Session) 3.30. 4. Rope (John Peel Session) 3.30. 5. Ed’s Funky Diner (The Keinholz Caper) 5.53.

6. Washing The Air (Rub A Dub Mix) 5.29. 7. Driving Away From Home (Wicked Weather For Walking) 7.11.

8. Ed’s Funky Diner (Friday Night, Saturday Morning) 8.05. 9. We’ll Turn Things Upside Down (When The Revolution Comes) 4.06. 10. Driving Away From Home (I Mean After All It’s Only ‘Dead Man’s Curve’) 6.29.

11. Space, He Called From The Kitchen 7.10. 12. Rope (Extended Mix) 6.07. 13. Space (Instrumental) 4.02.

14. Jazz Bo’s Holiday Transatlantique 4.47. 15. Driving Away From Home (Original 4-Track Demo) 3.13. Well, I received this for my birthday from a thoughtful friend and this is well nigh perfect. Superb mastering.

As much brilliance as could fit on 2 CDs. Illuminating liner notes with not just the band but the producer and A+R exec as well. A great album has been made definitive. I listened to my copy of this 5-6 years ago and decided that I needed to master a disc of all of the B-sides and mixes since the album was so excellent. Fortunately, I only bought a few of the singles form this before your efforts rendered the time and considerable expense moot. I still need to get the rest of the pre-Circa singles though!

That’s still a going projects, that, due to the licensing issues, will probably never happen professionally. I have the “Young Man” single and the road ahead beckons. Always loved this band and have ‘most’ of their singles. Just missing ‘Imitate The Worm’ from the non-Siren catalogue.I’m a professional audio-restorer specializing in vinyl transfers and of course I’ve done all my I.I. Material for my own enjoyment over the years. Nice to se an official re-issue though.

Long overdue.HOWEVER! If anyone’s seriously interested in doing a compilation of I.I.’s non-Virgin material If the master tapes for those recordings are absent or missing or damaged, I have very high quality examples of everything except ‘Imitating The Worm’ and that could be also sourced pretty easily. They are good enough for reissue – I say!Anyone? Contact me via my site seewhyaudio dot com. Serious enquiries only no downloads. ColinPS Hope I’m not breaking any rules here.