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Space Age Recordings are pleased to announce the first official limited edition vinyl release of the album “For All The Fucked Children Of This World We Give You Spacemen 3” (Sonic Boom a.ka. Peter Kember (Spectrum / E.A.R.) and Jason Pierce (Spiritualized).“For All the Fucked Up Children” from the neo-psychedelic trio Spacemen 3 was first released as a bootleg record in 1995. The record consists of Spacemen 3’s first ever recording session from 1984.

The music itself sounds like a primitive version of what the group were to become; the dominating sound of the record is a slow, droning psychedelic blues performed with sparse instrumentation. A drum set is matched with a pair of distorted electric guitars, all of which provide a swirling foundation for Jason Pierce’s vocals. The album’s liner notes replicated here are actually an early review of the band by Gary Boldie, where he contemplates the city of Rugby and finds it an odd source for this new sound, and he declares Spacemen 3 as the “all singing, all dancing answer to the problems of a grey 1985.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUxQf7gjdW8

Presented in a shrinkwrapped limited edition (1,000 copies only) on heavyweight (180 gram) transparent milky white coloured vinyl with printed card inner sleeve exclusively released for Record Store Day 2017. TRACKLISTING: Side 1: 1. Things’ll Never Be The Same (4:53) 2. 2:35 (2.57) 3. Walkin’ With Jesus (4:03) 4. Fixin’To Die (8.06) Side 2: 5. T.V. Catastrophe (7.18) 6. Things’ll Never Be The Same (alternate mix)(4:40) 7. Walkin’ With Jesus (alternate mix) (4.00)

Space Age Recordings are pleased to announce an official limited edition vinyl release of the fourth and final Spacemen 3 studio album “Recurring”; the follow up to their seminal “Playing with Fire” album. By the time the album was recorded, relations between the band had soured to the extent that the record is essentially in two parts; the first five tracks on side ‘A’ written and performed by Sonic Boom a.ka. Peter Kember (Spectrum / E.A.R.), and the last five tracks on side ‘B’ written and performed by Jason Pierce (Spiritualized). The lead track from the album “Big City” recently featured on the season 27 premiere of ‘The Simpsons’ being the sound track to Homer Simpson’s wild night out on the town, mixing alcohol with prescription drugs.

Presented in a shrink-wrapped limited edition (1,000 copies only) on heavyweight (180 gram) solid red coloured vinyl with printed card inner sleeve exclusively released for Record Store Day 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKKCpVVtlrc

TRACKLISTING: Side 1: 1. Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here) (edited version) (10:50) 2. Just To See You Smile (Orchestral Mix) (3:19) 3. I Love You (5:32) 4. Set Me Free / I’ve Got the Key (5:11) 5. Set Me Free (Reprise) (1:50) Side 2: 6. Feel So Sad (Reprise) (2:46) 7. Hypnotized (5:57) 8. Sometimes (6:36) 9. Feelin’ Just Fine (Head Full of Shit) (4:33) 10. Billy Whizz / Blue 1 (edited version) (7:33)

Jason Pierce has urged his fans NOT to buy Spacemen 3 albums on Saturday’s (22nd) Record Store Day event. The band, formed by Pierce and Pete Kember, earned a cult following during the 80’s with iconic records like “For All the Fucked Up Children of This World We Give You Spacemen 3″, “Sound of Confusion” and “Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To”

A falling out between Kember and Pierce resulted in the band splitting in 1991 and, as Record Store Day prepares to release three Spaceman 3 vinyls on Saturday, Pierce posted on his Spiritualized Facebook page to explain how a legal battle with former manager Gerald Palmer is resulting in a conflict of interests.

“We would seriously like to ask fans not to buy the Spacemen 3 releases and any merchandise that are being offered for sale on Record Store Day or any of the other Spacemen 3 releases and merchandise offered by Gerald Palmer on Space Age Recordings or any other subsidiary of that label, the statement read. 

“We are currently in legal dispute with Gerald Palmer due to him depriving us of our rights in our music and other intellectual property rights relating to Spacemen 3. Any monies from those sales will go directly to him and help fund his side of the dispute.

“In short… PLEASE DON’T BUY OUR RECORDS FROM SPACE AGE RECORDINGS! “Thanks for listening

“J Spaceman and Sonic Boom together t/a Spacemen 3″

Record Store Day currently have three listings of Spacemen 3 records due to be released for the event, they are:

Spacemen 3 – Playing With Fire
“Originally released in February 1989 and after having been out of print on vinyl for nearly 20 years Space Age Recordings are pleased to announce an official limited edition vinyl release of the third and penultimate studio album Playing with Fire by Spacemen 3.”

Spacemen 3 – For All The Fucked Up Children
Space Age Recordings are pleased to announce the first official limited edition vinyl release of the album For All The Fucked Children Of This World We Give You Spacemen 3.”

Spacemen 3 – Recurring
Space Age Recordings are pleased to announce an official limited edition vinyl release of the fourth and final Spacemen 3 studio album Recurring; the follow up to their seminal Playing with Fire album. ”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Mhfeh9orY

thanks to Far Out

Rough Trade’s ‘Book of The Month’ for September 2016 is ‘Playing The Bass With Three Left Hands’ by Will Carruthers. The ex-Spaceman 3 Bassist tells the whole sorry story of that much loved band and the segue into Spiritualised, in one of the funniest and most memorable memoirs ever. You can catch Will himself reading from the book and answering questions in-store at Rough Trade Nottingham on Sunday 25th September – free entry and not to be missed. @fabersocial @faberbooks

radio presenter Greg Foreman introduces another superb episode of his radio show, Greg also plays in the band Pink Mountaintops and is also the musical director of Cat Power’s live band