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       I read in the NME a while back that they are  recording a new
    album at the moment, but they seem to have been working on it for
    qute a few years!!  Aren't they signed to a strange record label,
    or am I thinking of someone else?
    
    Mike

    They're signed to Linn Records of Glasgow, obviously and independant.
    Their second album is slotted for release this summer, and I even
    saw mention somewhere of a tour to promote it.  Hope it's as good
    as their debut - incidentally, can anyone tell me if A WALK ACROSS
    THE ROOFTOPS is available on CD?  I'd *love* to hear this on CD.

      Aren't they the same LINN who make HiFi's?
    
    Have Blue Nile ever played live?  I once read that they are the
    favourit eband of the guy from Prefab Sprout (Paddy whotsit).
               
    Mike

    Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout is into The Blue Nile - now, not
    a lot of people know that ;-)
    
    I'm really not sure if Linn Records have any connection with the
    turntable manufacturers of the same name, but in reply to your other
    question, I'm almost certain that they've performed live before,
    albeit probably in a more local (i.e. Glasgow) sense.
    
    I'd love to see them 'live', but have my doubts about how they could
    possibly reproduce the kind of atmosphere their album creates (sparse
    is probably a good description).

    
    To answer a previous question YES the Blue Nile album "Walk Across
    the Roof-tops" is available on cd - on either Virgin or Beggars
    Banquet (in the UK) or A&M in the US.  I keep hearing that they
    are making a new album but never any specifics.
    
    will
    

    
    Blue Nile appear on two CD samplers produced by Virgin.
    
    Ken

    I also learned yesterday during a chance conversation, that a track
    of theirs ('Tinseltown' more than likely) appears on a CD sampler
    issued by "Q" magazine.
    
    Can someone confirm this, and also maybe give me an idea of what
    other stuff is on this sampler?  Also price/availability.
    
    Cheers!

    Tinseltown appears on both the Q sampler and the German equivalent Musik
    Express, but they are different mixes. Both samplers feature a variety
    of Virgin acts and were widely available for �4.99. 
    
    Other acts featured include Scritti Polliti, Simple Minds, Heaven 17,
    Working Week, David Sylvian etc.
    
    Ken

    re .7
    
    Dougie, I saw the Q sampler in John Menzies last night, but it was
    �6.29. As for what else was on it, er.. I think my memory's going!
    
    �Paul�

    The Linn record label is owned by the HiFi manufacturers Linn. I
    think they have a few more artists recording with them.
    
    I bought a single, and I'm not terribly fond of it. Is the album
    better ?
    
    Mark.

    Which single was it that you bought?  If it was STAY, then I can
    kinda understand why you weren't *too* taken on with it, and hence
    why you're a tad wary of what an album of theirs would be like.
    However, if it TINSELTOWN, then all I can say is if you don't like
    this, then you most definately would not like the rest of the LP.
    As far as I know, these were the only two tracks released as singles.
    
    Dougie_who_heard_TINSELTOWN_during_a_CD_machine_demo_on_Saturday

    Sorry, brain dead again. When I said "tinseltown" was on the Q CD i
    meant "Walk acrosss rooftops" I think. Anway, it's good value. 
    
    Ken
     

    Good value?  Do you mean that it has extra tracks on CD from the
    album, or what?  
    
    BTW, I was most impressed with the bass sound on TINSELTOWN during
    my CD demo last Sat.  It stood out really well - something I believe
    was lacking on the early (Linn) pressings of the album.
    
    This is a *must* have on CD (drool).

    Heh, heh - it is available on CD, on Virgin (as opposed to Linn).
    Unfortunately it's a full-price job, but what the heck....it's
    a classic!

    Re. a few back, from the stony silence, can I assume that no one
    can give me an idea of what else is on the 'Q' magazine CD sampler
    apart from TINSELTOWN?    

    
    re -.1 that's 'Walk Across the Rooftops' not 'Tinseltown' and alas
    it is the same version that is on the cd of the same name - but
    I hear that the 12" of 'Stay' is different from the cd version -
    anyone know for sure.
    
    will
    
    - this music is so good it makes me ill..
    

    
    
    	Ahh it seems like the new release is very nearly upon us !!
    	
    	Theres an article by 'The Thinking Popster' David Belcher in
    todays Glasgow Herald on Calum Malcolm - who ,if you don't know,
    is producer and collaborator on The Blue Nile's  'A Walk Across
    The Rooftops' .
    
    At the moment he's locked deep in his Castle Sound studio working
    on the next Blue Nile LP which ,although there's no official release 
    date yet , seems almost certain to be this year .In fact by the
    tone of this article I'm hopeful we'll be hearing something soon.
    
    Ah but the Thinking Popsters beat us to it and makes us all green
    with envy .... I quote  ' ... a track from the frothcoming Blue
    Nile album: I undergo an epiphany, forget my own name , and experience
    the force of a Mexican volcano. Calum and Blue Nile conquer again"
    
                                                                     
    Stuart .
    

    Definetly the best band Glasgow has ever produced. Years ahead of
    their time. Pity it seems to take years for them to produce on a
    regular basis. 6 years since the first, last and only masterpiece.
    
    When I attended Gabriel's concert in the tin shack in Glasgow he
    slapped the album on before the concert and played both sides, they
    whole place got going even then. Superb support. ( N'Dour was pretty
    good as well BTW)
    
    I saw an interview with Gabriel immeadiatley after he had accepted
    his Best album of the year award. When asked who he would of given
    it to he replied.. " to a band that probably no one has heard of,
    The Blue Nile". That was three years after it was released. 
    
    He took his time finding it but I think he enjoyed it. Maybe there
    is hope for the rest of humanity, to die in ignorance of this you
    may as well never have lived.

    
    IT'S OUT IN
    OCTOBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    the NEW Blue Nile disc is going to _fnally_ be released - it is
    called 'Hats' and is supposed to be like Walk Across the Rooftops
    II - which sounds great to me......
    
    
    YEAH!!!!!
    
    will
    

After 3 years in the wilderness of popular music, in the depths of which I have
seen myself dredge the decades gone by for the quality music proffered then
with seemingly greater quantity, quality and variety my wait has ended. The
Blue Nile is flowing again.

The Blue Nile turned the music world on its head 5 years ago by writing,
recording and producing a record that crystallised for many, including myself
what music was always meant to. All great works of art manage to tear the
beholder open and force him to examine his soul. The Blue Nile first achieved
this within the medium of popular music 5 years ago and now they have managed
it again. 

The album is a superb collection of moody soul searching songs arranged superbly
in the Blue Nile's very individual but oft repeated sparse orchestrated style.
One only has to listen to bands such as Tears for Fears to understand how much
of an influence this band has had on the late eighties minimalist approach to
electric orchestrations. Paul Buchanan's voice is as haunting as ever adding
an incalculable amount to the end result. Surely one of the most raw and
searching voices of popular music.

An album of supreme quality but I do not think I will last another 5 years, so
please guys, keep the Nile flowing.

Nick.
    

    
    So am I to assume that it is now out??
    
    will

    
    
    -1  + -2
    
    Yes.
    
    Nick.

    
    Well I just picked it up and if I were to rate it with the new Kate
    Bush - I would have to make it a close first.  Which means it is
    _fantastic_ - although the liner 'notes' leave much to be desired
    - one sheet with NO lyrics!!!
    
    will

    It is the bands choice to leave out the lyrics, something to do with
    enjoying the music as it is played without the sacrilous act of reading
    the words as the music plays so disjointing one part of the recording
    from the other.
    
    Seems feasible enough I mean ould you sit/stand at a concert with a 
    lyric sheet ?
    
    Nick.

    HATS....
    
    
    What more can i say, Brill album and well worth waiting 5 years for.
    
                
    
    
                                                       Steve.

    Can anyone confirm the dates and venues for the Scottish leg of
    their upcoming 'tour'?

    Headlights on the parade will be out in 2 weeks time.  7" 12" & cd
    
    
    
                                               Steve

    Any of the SQF noters going to the Edinburgh/Glasgow gigs?
    Unfortunately, I'm away on holiday for the last two weeks of Sept.,
    so I'll miss out on seeing one of my favourite bands - I hope someone
    (Steve?) will maybe take the time to write a review of the concert(s).

    The Blue Nile have a new album out in early June.
    
    mikef

My God, are they still around? Or, aren't they too young to be reforming?!

Looking forward to reviews of the previews.

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