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BOB – Leave The Straight Life Behind

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3 Loop Music is proud to announce that BOB are re-issuing of their sole studio album, Leave The Straight Life Behind as an expanded edition with previously unreleased tracks and all of their BBC sessions.

It’s released on Monday 21st April 2014 as a 2CD set and digital download and includes the original album, 3 previously unreleased demos and 20 BBC session tracks including all of their Peel Sessions plus a long lost BBC Radio Humberside session only found when the band’s old manager started rooting around in his attic. The accompanying 16 page booklet includes sleevenotes from the band’s founders, Richard Blackborow and Simon Armstrong.

Starting life in 1986, the band released a series of acclaimed singles, and with each single release, they toured and promised an album. Eventually they got enough money together to release Leave The Straight Life Behind on their own House Of Teeth label in 1991.

Legend has it that a chance meeting with John Peel in the Rough Trade record shop set BOB on the road to becoming a true indie favourite in the late 80s and early 90s, with Peel championing the band throughout their career. CD2 features all of the band’s BBC sessions including the three Peel sessions, plus their Simon Mayo Evening Session and a BBC Humberside session which was thought to be lost and only came to light when the band’s former manager went into his attic to look for BOB related material and found an old cassette!

The album met with rave reviews but due to the collapse of Rough Trade Distribution it was frustratingly difficult to find but thankfully will now be available again for the first time in many years.

CLICK HERE and order your copy now!

Leave The Straight Life Behind CD1

Original Album
1. DYNAMITE
2. SKYLARK III
3. NOTHING FOR SOMETHING
4. WHO YOU ARE
5. OLD JEAN BLUES
6. TAKE, TAKE, TAKE
7. SKYLARK II
8. TROUSERCIDE
9. SAYING GOODBYE
10. 95 TEARS
11. THE BELLY
12. LEAVE THE STRAIGHT LIFE BEHIND
Bonus Tracks
13. MANY STRINGS
14. COME WINTER *
15. BLOODLINE *
16. ANOTHER CROW *

* previously unreleased

The Complete BBC Session CD2

John Peel Show #1 – 7th January 1988
1. TROUSERCIDE *
2. KIRSTY *
3. ESMERELDA BROOKLYN *
4. BRIAN WILSON’S BED *
Simon Mayo Evening Show – 2nd March 1988
5. TIMES LIKE THESE *
6. JUST LIKE YOU *
7. SMELLY SUMMER *
8. IT WAS KEVIN *
John Peel Show #2 – 5th February 1989
9. WHO YOU ARE *
10. SCARECROW *
11. SO FAR, SO GOOD *
12. IT WAS KEVIN *
John Peel Show #3 – 3rd September 1989
13. EXTENSION ‘BOB’, PLEASE *
14. THROW AWAY THE KEY *
15. BLOODLINE *
16. WILD WEST 9 *
BBC Radio Humberside Session – 16th October 1989
17. CONVENIENCE *
18. DEMONS *
19. UPHILL DOWN *
20. SCARECROW *

* previously unreleased

Kitchens of Distinction – Folly

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Kitchens of Distinction’s new album, Folly has received some glowing reviews, so if you have not got your copy yet, order it here

“A literate, passionate comeback worth waiting for.” CLASSIC POP – 4/5

“Euphoric and uncompromising, Folly is up there with KOD’s best work.” Q MAGAZINE – 4/5

“KOD’s first album in 19 years reassembles the heady blend of poetics and lush textures that made them, secretly, one of the best British bands of the early ’90s” UNCUT – 7/10

“History rarely gets to be rewritten, but it seems that Kitchens Of Distinction may at least succeed in adding a new chapter to their tale.” THE QUIETUS

“Folly ranks alongside their best work” THE SCOTSMAN

“a genuine stunner; the strongest, most breathtaking album I’ve heard all year. A noisy, beautiful masterpiece.” POP MATTERS – 9/10

“The opening track, Oak tree, is astonishing – a torrid, putrid Derek Jarman short made musical flesh.” WEST BRITON – 4/5

“’Extravagance’ is a career defining mission statement” [SIC] MAGAZINE – 8/10

“a nerve-wracking album filled with lots of post punk energy… if you were to tie Paul Banks and Daniel Kessler of Interpol to chairs and force them to confess they would certainly be quick to admit to have found a good portion of their tracks by listening to Kitchens of Distinction” MUZIK EXPRESS (GERMANY)

“Folly rivals 1991’s Strange Free World as their best – dazzling waves of multilayered/colored sounds… can we hope for more albums like this masterpiece?” THE BIG TAKEOVER (USA)

“I can listen to a British Sea Power record and think: ‘You know what? Kitchens Of Distinction were ahead of their time.’”
STEVE LAMACQ, BBC RADIO 2013

“a sun-light-through-stained-glass pop sound” ALTERNATIVE PRESS (US)

Kitchens of Distinction release a special 10″ vinyl of Extravagance for Record Store Day on 19th April. Full details here

Visit our Art Gallery

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3 Loop Music seek to publicise and promote the work of artists who have produced iconic album artwork and illustrations associated with some of our favourite music.

Please visit our Art Gallery for more in-depth features and register here to receive updates on exclusive canvas prints and other merchandise bearing the work of our partners.

Chesterfield born artist and illustrator Carl Flint, a frequent contributor to the NME between the years 1989 to 1992 and 1995 to 1999, gives 3 Loop’s Geoff Loop an exclusive interviewcovering his life, work and the Sugrbabes.
Iain Stronach, the man behind the iconic cat artwork of the Family Cat, talks here to Geoff Loop about green sheds and the place of art in the music industry.