Magazine - Wire-Sound and Rough Trade, Limited Edition Release Vinyl and Box Set

If you are collecting the limited edition reissues of Magazines back catalogue, here's a full rundown of what is available and from where.

The Wire-Sound Releases

• Magazine : 'Give Me Everything' 6-LP Vinyl Box Set (500 copies only)

Price: £200 Available from Wire-Sound

Description

The MAGAZINE STUDIO ALBUMS (1978–2011) vinyl reissues refreshed and revisited, and all wrapped up and enclosed in the Give Me Everything box.

WHAT DO YOU GET FOR YOUR HARD EARNED?

1. REAL LIFE : Recoil Red vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Dave Formula; a 12” x 12” art print based on Linder’s front cover monograph; and an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by Adrian Boot taken in 1978.

2. SECONDHAND DAYLIGHT : Permafrost Green vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Howard Devoto; a 12” x 12” art print based on Ian Pollock’s front cover monograph; and an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by Ebet Roberts taken in 1979; plus a replica 24” x 12” poster the original LP inner gatefold sleeve.

3. THE CORRECT USE OF SOAP : Philadelphia White vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with sleeve designer, Malcolm Garett; a 12” x 12” art print based on Malcolm’s front cover; an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by BC Kagan taken in 1979; plus a set of 9oversize The Correct Use Of Soap postcards, wrapped up and secured with a Magazine emblazoned belly band.

4. MAGIC, MURDER & THE WEATHER : Poison Pink vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with John Doyle; a 12” x 12” art print based on Malcolm Garrett’s front cover; and an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by Jamie Morgan taken in 1980.

5. NO THYSELF : Of Course Orange vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2011 recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Noko; a 12” x 12” art print based on Odilon Redon’s front cover etching; a 12’ x 12” two-sided lyric insert; a No Thyself carrier bag; and a replica Vive Le Rock press advertisement first published in 2011.

6. RAYS & HAIL 1978–2011 : Burn Again Yellow vinyl LPs cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered and 2011 recordings; photo inner sleeves featuring a personal overview by Rory Sullivan-Burke (author of the John McGeoch biography, The Light Pours Out Of Me); a 12x12” art print based on Damian Wayling’s original 1987 CD front cover; plus a set of 21 oversize postcards featuring illustrated lyrics of the compilations running order, all wrapped up and secured with a Magazine emblazoned belly band.

NOTE 1 : This is a re-worked compilation as a double LP set on vinyl for the very first time, featuring a re-jigged and updated track listing by Howard Devoto of 19 songs from the Magazine back catalogue. 

 

Side 1 :

1. Shot By Both Sides (single version)

2. Definitive Gaze

3. Motorcade

4. The Light Pours Out Of Me

5. Parade (live version from ‘Play’)

Side 2 :

1. Feed The Enemy

2. Rhythm Of Cruelty

3. Back To Nature

4. Permafrost

Side 3 :

1. Because You’re Frightened

2. You Never Knew Me

3. A Song From Under The Floorboards

4. I Want To Burn Again

5. Sweetheart Contract

Side 4 :

1. This Poison

2. Naked Eye

3. Physics

4. Holy Dotage

5. Final Analysis Waltz

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…and all these pristine perfect LPs and this printed paraphernalia are housed in the super-duper deluxe Give Me Everything box with a lid to keep these new crisp designs safe as houses.

NOTE 2 : There are only 500 of these box sets. No more will be manufactured. Once they are gone, they are gone. Order your copy right now.

This super-duper deluxe box set is yours for £200 – a saving of £10 on buying the LPs separately, plus you get a box (that cost £20 to make) for free. Bonus!

NOTE 3 : The separate LP versions available in your high street and online record dealers come November & December DO NOT feature these various unpublished extras…

Plus, we don’t stop there. No… More mystery lucky dip additional extra items from the Wire-Sound store will also be added to each box. Could be one item. Could be more. All for free! You lucky, lucky people…

All items are shipped worldwide from the UK in mid-November. The box is shipped insured. Postage and packing is extra and varies depending on which part of the world we ship to. Customs charges many apply outside of the UK, and must be borne by the buyer upon request etc.

• Magazine – ‘Real Life’ : Recoil Red Vinyl 12″ LP

Price: £33.00 Available From Wire-Sound

Description

Available in Recoil Red vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Dave Formula; a 12” x 12” art print based on Linder’s front cover monograph; and an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by Adrian Boot taken in 1978.

NOTE : The separate LP version available in your high street and online record dealers come November & December DOES NOT feature the various unpublished extras…

All items are shipped worldwide from the UK in mid-November. Postage and packing is extra and varies depending on which part of the world we ship to. Customs charges many apply outside of the UK, and must be borne by the buyer upon request etc.

Buy with confidence, my friends. Buy with confidence.

• Magazine – ‘Secondhand Daylight’ : Permafrost Green Vinyl 12″ LP

Price: £33.00 Available From Wire-Sound

Description

Available in Permafrost Green vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Howard Devoto; a 12” x 12” art print based on Ian Pollock’s front cover monograph; and an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by Ebet Roberts taken in 1979; plus a replica 24” x 12” poster the original LP inner gatefold sleeve. 

NOTE : The separate LP version available in your high street and online record dealers come November & December DOES NOT feature the various unpublished extras…

All items are shipped worldwide from the UK in mid-November. Postage and packing is extra and varies depending on which part of the world we ship to. Customs charges many apply outside of the UK, and must be borne by the buyer upon request etc.

Buy with confidence, my friends. Buy with confidence.

• Magazine – ‘The Correct Use Of Soap’ : Philadelphia White Vinyl 12″ LP

Price: £33.00 Available From Wire-Sound

Description

Available in Philadelphia White vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with sleeve designer, Malcolm Garett; a 12” x 12” art print based on Malcolm’s original front cover design; an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by BC Kagan taken in 1979; plus a set of 9 oversize The Correct Use Of Soap postcards, wrapped up and secured with a Magazine emblazoned belly band.

NOTE : The separate LP version available in your high street and online record dealers come November & December DOES NOT feature the various unpublished extras…

All items are shipped worldwide from the UK in mid-November. Postage and packing is extra and varies depending on which part of the world we ship to. Customs charges many apply outside of the UK, and must be borne by the buyer upon request etc.

Buy with confidence, my friends. Buy with confidence.

• Magazine – ‘Magic, Murder & The Weather’ : Poison Pink Vinyl 12″ LP

Price: £33.00 Available From Wire-Sound

Description

Available in Poison Pink vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with John Doyle; a 12” x 12” art print based on Malcolm Garrett’s front cover imagery; and an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by Jamie Morgan taken in 1980.

NOTE : The separate LP version available in your high street and online record dealers come November & December DOES NOT feature the various unpublished extras…

All items are shipped worldwide from the UK in mid-November. Postage and packing is extra and varies depending on which part of the world we ship to. Customs charges many apply outside of the UK, and must be borne by the buyer upon request etc.

Buy with confidence, my friends. Buy with confidence.

• Magazine – ‘No Thyself’ : Of Course Orange Vinyl 12″ LP

Price: £33.00 Available From Wire-Sound

Description

Available in Of Course Orange vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2011 recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Noko; a 12” x 12” art print based on Odilon Redon’s front cover etching; a 12” x 12” two-sided lyric insert; a No Thyself carrier bag; and a replica Vive Le Rock press advertisement first published in 2011.

NOTE : The separate LP version available in your high street and online record dealers come November & December DOES NOT feature the various unpublished extras…

All items are shipped worldwide from the UK in mid-November. Postage and packing is extra and varies depending on which part of the world we ship to. Customs charges many apply outside of the UK, and must be borne by the buyer upon request etc.

Buy with confidence, my friends. Buy with confidence.

• Magazine – ‘Rays & Hail 1978–2011’ : Burn Again Yellow Vinyl 12″ LP

Price: £45.00 Available From Wire-Sound

Description

Available in Burn Again Yellow vinyl LPs cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered and 2011 recordings; photo inner sleeves featuring a personal overview by Rory Sullivan-Burke (author of the John McGeoch biography, The Light Pours Out Of Me); a 12” x 12” art print based on Damian Wayling’s original 1987 CD front cover design; plus a set of 21 oversize postcards featuring illustrated lyrics of the compilation’s running order, all wrapped up and secured with a Magazine emblazoned belly band.

NOTE 1 : This is a re-worked compilation as a double LP set on vinyl for the very first time, featuring a re-jigged and updated track listing by Howard Devoto of 19 songs from the Magazine back catalogue.

Side 1 :

1. Shot By Both Sides (single version)

2. Definitive Gaze

3. Motorcade

4. The Light Pours Out Of Me

5. Parade (live version from ‘Play’)

Side 2 :

1. Feed The Enemy

2. Rhythm Of Cruelty

3. Back To Nature

4. Permafrost

Side 3 :

1. Because You’re Frightened

2. You Never Knew Me

3. A Song From Under The Floorboards

4. I Want To Burn Again

5. Sweetheart Contract

Side 4 :

1. This Poison

2. Naked Eye

3. Physics

4. Holy Dotage

5. Final Analysis Waltz

NOTE 2 : The separate LP version available in your high street and online record dealers come November & December DOES NOT feature the various unpublished extras…

All items are shipped worldwide from the UK in mid-November. Postage and packing is extra and varies depending on which part of the world we ship to. Customs charges many apply outside of the UK, and must be borne by the buyer upon request etc.

Buy with confidence, my friends. Buy with confidence.

The Rough Trade Releases:

• Magazine - Real Life (Rough Trade Exclusive, Ltd 500, Red and Black Marbled LP+)

Price: £27.99 Available From Rough Trade

Description

Real Life is the debut album by Magazine and a post punk benchmark. It was originally released in June 1978 by Virgin. The album includes the band's debut single "Shot by Both Sides", "The Light Pours Out Of Me" and the more orchestrated "Parade". Pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings, with a photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Dave Formula.

Enduringly credible, Magazine have always been the connoisseur’s choice and frequently name checked by some of the most gifted musicians of recent years including Radiohead, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, U2, Johnny Marr and MGMT. NME.com went so far as to included Magazine in a poll as one of the most influential bands of all time. Magazine’s front man, Howard Devoto co-formed Buzzcocks with Pete Shelley after the pair had seen The Sex Pistols in early 1976 and promoted the now legendary Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall gigs. Devoto left in 1977, after the seminal ‘Spiral Scratch’ EP had been released, and created Magazine. Their first record was the post-punk anthem ‘Shot By Both Sides’. Leading the vanguard of post-punk, Magazine’s sound focused on the double barrels of Dave Formula’s swirling keyboards and John McGeoch’s ahead-of-its-time innovative guitar work, underpinned by Barry Adamson’s pulsing yet deviously irregular bass-lines. Atop of which came Howard Devoto’s lyrics. Aloof, articulate, tersely ironic and about as pliable as a garden rake. Too literary for the mass pop environment. Too poppy for the literary landscapes beyond it.

Doomed to exist in that tiny, undersubscribed hinterland where artful wordplay meets the crunching riff. Real Life, Secondhand Daylight, The Correct Use of Soap, and Magic, Murder and The Weather. Four ground breaking albums and then the band parted company, leaving behind an influential body of work to critical acclaim. A fifth studio album, No Thyself, was released in 2011 following a 2009 reformation. The plaudits continued.

• Magazine - Secondhand Daylight (Rough Trade Exclusive, Ltd 500, Green and Black Marbled LP+)

Price: £27.99 Available From Rough Trade

Description

Secondhand Daylight is the second album by Magazine. It was originally released on 30 March 1979 by Virgin. Secondhand Daylight was somewhat of a departure from the debut, featuring more keyboards, smoother rhythms, outboard studio gadgetry and streamlined lyrics from Devoto. It's a compelling and cold post punk classic. Pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings, with a photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Howard Devoto.

Enduringly credible, Magazine have always been the connoisseur’s choice and frequently name checked by some of the most gifted musicians of recent years including Radiohead, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, U2, Johnny Marr and MGMT. NME.com went so far as to included Magazine in a poll as one of the most influential bands of all time. Magazine’s front man, Howard Devoto co-formed Buzzcocks with Pete Shelley after the pair had seen The Sex Pistols in early 1976 and promoted the now legendary Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall gigs. Devoto left in 1977, after the seminal ‘Spiral Scratch’ EP had been released, and created Magazine. Their first record was the post-punk anthem ‘Shot By Both Sides’. Leading the vanguard of post-punk, Magazine’s sound focused on the double barrels of Dave Formula’s swirling keyboards and John McGeoch’s ahead-of-its-time innovative guitar work, underpinned by Barry Adamson’s pulsing yet deviously irregular bass-lines. Atop of which came Howard Devoto’s lyrics. Aloof, articulate, tersely ironic and about as pliable as a garden rake. Too literary for the mass pop environment. Too poppy for the literary landscapes beyond it. Doomed to exist in that tiny, undersubscribed hinterland where artful wordplay meets the crunching riff. Real Life, Secondhand Daylight, The Correct Use of Soap, and Magic, Murder and The Weather. Four ground breaking albums and then the band parted company, leaving behind an influential body of work to critical acclaim. A fifth studio album, No Thyself, was released in 2011 following a 2009 reformation. The plaudits continued.

• Magazine - Rays and Hail 1978-2011 (Rough Trade EXclusive, Ltd 500, Purple and White Marbled LPx2+)

Price: £43.99 Available From Rough Trade

Description

This is a re-worked compilation as a double LP set on vinyl for the very first time, featuring a re-jigged and updated track listing by Howard Devoto of 19 songs from the Magazine back catalogue. Rays and Hail covers the first three years of the band's existence plus the reformed years with highlight after highlight on display. It features all the essentials including Shot By Both Sides, The Light Pours Out Of Me, A Song From Under The Floorboards and more.

Side 1 :

1. Shot By Both Sides (single version)

2. Definitive Gaze

3. Motorcade

4. The Light Pours Out Of Me

5. Parade (live version from ‘Play’)

Side 2 :

1. Feed The Enemy

2. Rhythm Of Cruelty

3. Back To Nature

4. Permafrost

Side 3 :

1. Because You’re Frightened

2. You Never Knew Me

3. A Song From Under The Floorboards

4. I Want To Burn Again

5. Sweetheart Contract

Side 4 :

1. This Poison

2. Naked Eye

3. Physics

4. Holy Dotage

5. Final Analysis Waltz

All albums should now be available to order through the outlets linked above, standard releases may also be available in your local record stores.

Box Sets and limited editions due for delivery between End November/Early December.

Note: Images and Wording from Wire-Sound and Rough Trade websites as linked to above.

Happy Collecting,
Gary

Crisp - New - Designs

Magazine recently announced some new t-shirt designs to go with the imminent Magazine vinyl box set.

In their own words, we have:

More. New. Crisp designs. Here they come. ‘Cut-Out Shapes’ T-shirts.

Yes! To coincide with the Magazine vinyl box set, we are issuing 2 new Ts to go with it.

Available in 2 colourways : Winter Blues on Parade Grey, and Autumn Rusts & Oranges on I’m A Party Black.

4 colour silk screened on soft spun 100% cotton garments.

Available in M, L and XL, and in the requested bumper sizes of XXL & XXXL. £20 per shirt, except £25 for the bumper sizes. More fabric, see?

Get yours and dress like Jack The Biscuit today : https://wire-sound.com/t-shirt/ 

image copyright: Magazine

Order of the day - It's Magazine

To order your copies of the vinyl reissues that they are talking about go to https://wire-sound.com/vinyl/

Magazine Box Set of Studio Albums

Magazine, are only bloody reissuing some of their back catalogue aren't they, and not only that these will be on fantastic individually coloured vinyls and include additional, bonus items and artwork.

Here, in their own words, are all of the details, and tell them Gary sent you.

As advertised... The wait is over. The clock has tick-docked. The pre-sale button has been commissioned. You are go. https://wire-sound.com/news/

The Magazine box set of the studio album recordings(1978-2011) is now for sale. OFFICIAL!

Yes! The Magazine studio album recordings are refreshed and revisited. Coming to you in coloured vinyl with new interview / photo inner sleeves, along with various unpublished before extras…

A limited edition run of only 500 are being manufactured. Click the link above and order yours right now, while stocks last... 

n.b. The individual LPs are also available to buy separately too, but it's cheaper in the long run to buy the box…

So don't delay, Wire-Sound Give You Everything, or do they? 
Well you'll have to wait and see won't you.

image copyright: Magazine

Magazine W/Label Test Pressings

Two Test Pressings in my collection:

The Correct Use Of Soap

(2018 UK 10-track White Label vinyl LP Test Pressing, originally released in 1980 and produced by Martin Hannett, including A Song From Under The Floorboards and a version of Sly And The Family Stone's Thank You [Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again]. Pressed in small quantities purely to test the sonics, this has plain white labels, within a hand annotation plain die-cut card sleeve. New and unplayed condition.

Real Life

(2018 UK 9-track White Label vinyl LP Test Pressing, originally released in 1978, their classic debut album featuring Shot By Both Sides and The Light Pours Out Of Me. Pressed in small quantities purely to test the sonics, this has plain white labels, within a hand annotation plain die-cut card sleeve. New and unplayed condition

Howard Devoto 1979

Two great photographs of Howard taken by ©Hanns Schmid photographer.

Magazine Posters and Ticket 1979

Two great Magazine Posters recently surfaced the first is a Belgian tour poster from 1979 which I offered the seller £250.00 for, but they politely declined, frustratingly it ended up sold on eBay for £217.00 annoyingly I forgot to go back near the end of the auction and it sold 10 minutes before I realised and logged in to check.

The 2nd is a cracking poster that Neil Braidwood has sent me a high res image of from Magazines UK tour back in 1979 at the Deb Hall at St Andrews University.

And then Ian Hall kindly posted up a copy of his ticket from the same tour but the Cambridge date.

Magazine, Manchester Apollo 23/4/1979

Huge thanks to Melanie Smith of Mud Kiss Photography for letting me share these two fantastic photos of Howard taken that Melanie took side of stage at Manchester Apollo 23rd of April 1979.  This was the gig Magazine had Simple Minds as support.

Melanie told me that her friend took unwell at the gig and got pulled onto the stage then waited for Melanie backstage.

When Melanie got there after the show Howard was with his manager and Sarah Brightman (Of Hot Gossip fame).

Melanie took the picture you can see below of Howard signing an autograph for an American pen pal who was a huge Magazine fan and Howard said laughing, something along the lines of 'Hope you haven't got my bald patch'.

It's rare to find photos of Magazine and Howard back then and I'm so grateful to Melanie for letting me share these.

Please respect Copyright on these photographs, which belongs to Melanie and Mud Kiss Photography.  No reproduction or copying of these pics is permitted without her express permission.

Pete Shelley RIP

Tonight I type this with tears in my eyes and sadness in my heart on the news that the great Peter Campbell McNeish more commonly known as Pete Shelley, lead singer and guitarist of our beloved Buzzcocks has sadly died earlier today of a heart attack in Estonia where he now lives.

My heartfelt condolences go out to Peter's Family his current band mates Steve Diggle, Danny Farrant, Chris Remington and all of his former bandmates, friends and fans worldwide.

I last spoke to Pete at an event in Manchester earlier this year, a wonderful man who will be sorely missed by us all.

Peter Campbell McNeish RIP

1955-2018

Zig Zag Charts back in 1978

Some interesting positions for our favourite bands back in 1978.
 

Buzzcocks at The Electric Circus, 28 November 1976

Buzzcocks at The Electric Circus, 28 November 1976.

Not sure of the source for this pic and it might well be one of John Maher's from his scrapbooks that he's been posting via his @flyingmonkphoto Twitter account.  Incidentally if you love Buzzcocks (and if you don't why are you here?) then I would urge you to follow John's Tweets, they are a fantastic historical reference for Buzzcocks and related information.

Magazine Photo

Here's a cracking photograph of Magazine found online in Getty Images.  Thanks to Danny Van Leuteren for posting it in the Facebook Group 'Alternate Bites.

Spiral Scratch Shirt

Thought I'd upload a few pics of my Spiral Scratch shirt for you to check out.  Hope you like it.

I wore it for the first time at the Buzzcocks gig 21/7/2017 at Uppermill Civic Hall.  Met the band after the gig backstage who liked it.

Buzzcocks Box Set Mk1 - At No 10 in the official album charts

Buzzcocks Box Set Mk1 - Yes that box, which comes with many, many amazing goodies and that costs a measly £50 is only no 10 in the charts.

Let's get it to No1 like we helped Spiral Scratch to do.

Time's Up: the Devoto period Buzzcocks exhibited at the French Paper Gallery

Nice article HERE ready for this weekends gig and exhibition over in Paris.

To read it non French open in google and translate.

Magazine - Old World Charm 12"

This years Record Store Day Farce sees yet another limited edition Magazine 12" issued.Record Store Day - April 2017.

Titled "Old World Charm" Wire Sound 12" Limited to 1000 / Download card 

‘Welcome, ladies & gentlemen, to the genuine old world charm of

Magazine’…Following on from last year’s ‘Once @ The Academy’ RSD 12" vinyl release, Magazine issue a sister release for RSD 2017. The 6-track EP, ‘Old World Charm’, is limited to 1000 pressings and this time contains live recordings from the 2009 BBC Electric Proms performance @ the Camden Roundhouse, London. 

Magazine played a 45-minute set featuring selected A & B sides of their previous single releases. Half of the set is captured here.

Track listing: Shot By Both Sides; Rhythm Of Cruelty; A Song

From Under The Floorboards; Side B: Feed The Enemy;

Sweetheart Contract; I Love You, You Big Dummy

Ooh La La - Have I got an exclusive for you.

Check this out.

So there's this exhibition right of Buzzcocks (mk.1) and it will be up and running in Paris.

And they have expanded and exploded the box set and made it into bigger art.

And not only that but along with new re-imaged 'Spiral Scratch' poster from Malcolm Garrett (Yes! That Malcolm Garrett)and all of the items are on sale too.

This show actually opened last night and will close on Sunday the 26th of March the day after the Buzzcocks gig in Paris on the 25th but that's not all..........

On Sunday afternoon Pete Shelley, John Maher and Malcolm Garrett will actually be in attendance.

All the information can be found HERE at the official website and if you want to purchase the Poster you can do so HERE.

Buzzcocks - 40 Year Anniversary Box Set Arrives.

So, I'm down in London and I get the text from the courier your Buzzcocks box sets are due to be delivered today - Arghhh.

Fortunately I got back in time to take delivery and boy where these bad boys worth waiting for.  As collectors items go these are ace. 

Limited to just 1000 I got Boxes 233 and 235 One remains sealed and the other I have opened so you can see what's in it.

There's not many left though now so if you want one get online and order it from Domino records.

So here goes:

Times Up Vinyl LP.

7" Spiral Scratch E.P.
 

Downloads Postcard this allows you to get the MP3 and WAV files plus Breakdown Video from The Free Trade Hall gig 1976.

Booklet that has a great run down of the band at this time.

Shy Talk - Manchester Fanzine 

Various Postcards based upon Tickets and Flyers from Buzzcocks gigs.

Series of Photographs.

Repro Posters.

Repro of Spiral Scratch Master Tape Box Lid.

Badges.

Times Up CD.

Spiral Scratch E.P. CD.