Everything but the Girl.

It was released as 7" and a 12", was included on their first album, Working Nights, the 2LP B/O Pay Day and the CD distillation of that album Pay Check., and yes it is indeed great.

I don't believe any permanent members of Working Week had ever been in YMG 'though, although Simon Booth had worked with Alison Stratton in a post-YMG band called Weekend, which was also where he met Larry Stabbins with whom he subsequently formed Working Week.

Philip Moxham of YMG did play bass for EBTG for a while 'though.

Fwiw Corrine Drewery (later of Swing Out Sister) was WW's vocalist for a while before they recruited Juliet Roberts.

Buzzin' Fly Volume 3 was released last week and like the other two volumes, it is something pretty special. All three volumes heartily recommended.

Does anyone know anything useful (like a tracklisting maybe?) about a "Collector's Edition" of Eden which is apparently coming out in a month's time?

Amazon are listing it as a single disc, with just the same 12 tracks as the original and no indication what would make it so special as to warrant the huge price tag they've put on it; while Play are listing it as a double disc, but not offering a tracklist.

Can't find any details anywhere else - not even a mention of the official EBTG website.

There are plenty of great non-album singles & b-sides available so it could be great: "Night and Day", "Feeling Dizzy", "On My Mind" (although that single was on Cherry Red iirc, so presumably they'd need to licence it?), "English Rose" (recorded for an NME freebie single, so who knows who owns the rights to that one?!), "Laugh You Out the House", "Never Could Have Been Worse", "Mine", "Easy as Sin", "Gun Cupboard Love", "Native Land", "Riverbed Dry", "Don't You Go" (didn't they have a different debut album in the US which ditched half the tracks on Eden in favour of those later singles and some of the B-sides)?

Now THAT'S a slow burn. (The news is kinda buried in the post but it's there.)

Now how about a new EBTG album?

hey, that's kind of sweet, isn't it.

tracey's working on a new solo album so i doubt we'll see new EBTG stuff for a long while (if we ever will).

Tracey Thorn, annoyed mom.

tee-hee.

she's working on a new (solo) album. she's implied that at least in part it's a bit of throwback to her indie-pop years, as opposed to the club/electronic-based stuff she's been up to the last decade.

she's working on a new (solo) album. she's implied that at least in part it's a bit of throwback to her indie-pop years, as opposed to the club/electronic-based stuff she's been up to the last decade.

― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist),

Thank God! Enough is enough...

^ Hmm, I don't know, didn't work out so great for Lou (ex-Lamb) Rhodes.

Tracey Thorn, annoyed mom.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, February 8, 2010 11:14 PM (Yesterday)

I love it. This might be the first twitter feed I am actually curious about...

Does anyone know anything useful (like a tracklisting maybe?) about a "Collector's Edition" of Eden which is apparently coming out in a month's time?

Amazon are listing it as a single disc, with just the same 12 tracks as the original and no indication what would make it so special as to warrant the huge price tag they've put on it; while Play are listing it as a double disc, but not offering a tracklist.

Can't find any details anywhere else - not even a mention of the official EBTG website.

There are plenty of great non-album singles & b-sides available so it could be great: "Night and Day", "Feeling Dizzy", "On My Mind" (although that single was on Cherry Red iirc, so presumably they'd need to licence it?), "English Rose" (recorded for an NME freebie single, so who knows who owns the rights to that one?!), "Laugh You Out the House", "Never Could Have Been Worse", "Mine", "Easy as Sin", "Gun Cupboard Love", "Native Land", "Riverbed Dry", "Don't You Go" (didn't they have a different debut album in the US which ditched half the tracks on Eden in favour of those later singles and some of the B-sides)?

― Stewart Osborne, Friday, September 28, 2007

Everytime I turn around there's another EBTG rarity I can't find...I wish they would put out a collection of their singles and comps tracks

They're like the Katie and Peter of Twitter.

So, got inspired to check them out because of Matos' jj review in Paste (which I wandered into while lol'ing at the Sleigh Bells review) -- anyway! This is pretty awesome. I'm listening to Walking Wounded. Super gorgeous, like proto-IDM? Anyway, what else by them should I listen to?

(Maybe proto is the wrong word, actually)

When is the Tracey Thorn album coming out?

It's out, I think.

it's leaked, anyway. it's real good, at first listen not as good as the last maybe?

glad to hear there's been another EBTG convert. the 'like the deserts miss the rain' comp is highly recommended.

We can make amends over our favorite EBTG tracks, am.

Everytime I turn around there's another EBTG rarity I can't find...I wish they would put out a collection of their singles and comps tracks

― iago g., Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

there's a great comp floating around the internets. whatsitcalled. ah yes, kitchen sink treasures.

I wanted everything for a little while
Why shouldn't I?

So far only a few songs into Eden, but I don't like it as much as Walking Wounded.

Check Temperamental. It's closer to WW but definitely more house beats than you'll find on WW.

Even tho I'm not in love with Eden, I do love that this band clearly moved through a bunch of different sounds throughout their career. It's cool when some kind of trajectory is apparent.

there are a few tracks on the new tracey album that are quite underwhelming. it may be that some of the thinner tunes on her last record (or even the last few ebtg records) were disguised by involving arrangements. but anyway "singles bar" is pretty boring, and one or two others.

SFJ has a review of the new Tracey Thorn album over at the NYorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2010/05/17/100517crmu_music_frerejones?currentPage=all

Ben Watt interview at Resident Advisor is long, but worth listening to - didn't know that Language of Life was Stan Getz's last outing, or that Amplified Heart was produced by one of the guys from Spring Heel Jack.

FYI

http://theseconddisc.com/2012/04/11/nothing-but-everything-but-the-girl-u-k-pop-duo-expands-first-four-albums/#more-12730

Buzzin' Fly rather than EBTG but this is very good:

http://soundcloud.com/buzzinfly/towards-green-pathfinding-a

excellent news

cracking piece this http://thequietus.com/articles/09091-everything-but-the-girl-interview

aw:

There are some amazing songs on there. One thing that has surprised me that - apart from occasional bludgeoning of 'Missing' on The Voice - is that hasn't been more covers of your work. I'm sure you wouldn't be averse to someone like Adele or Jessie Ware asking to cover something like 'Come On Home'.

TT: Yeah. I'd love it. I do think it's a shame. We've nagged our publishers over the years saying, 'Isn't it worth sending some of these songs out?' I don't know. I think perhaps people don't dig deep enough when they're looking for covers, so you get the same things covered over and over again and there are ‘go-to' songwriters that people choose. We've slipped through the net a bit I think, and it's a shame. I think there's a lot of songs out there. Come on guys. [laughs]

I do wonder before "Driving" how big their US audience was.

so has anyone else been listening to the new (!!!!) ben watt solo record? seems like it's been royally ignored.

I have been following the developments with the release pretty closely. Soundcloud dj mixes, live radio appearances etc. I think it's a great album but I'm rarely in the mood for that type of music these days. Some of the tracks he performed either solo and with Bernard Butler before the album came out were great.

I follow both he and Tracey on Twitter. Apparently Joe Moss ex-Culture Club is their neighbor and currently hosting jam sessions where they're working on 70s rock standards.

I didn't even know he had a new record. Definitely want to check it out.

it's a very pretty record, lots of obvious (but not remotely annoying) borrowings from john martyn and joni mitchell (one song sounds a lot like hejira)

the lyrics in the one about gun control is a little nagl

this album is beautifully recorded

I keep mentioning this, but Tracey Thorn's column in New Statesman is always such a good read.

did not know this existed. link?

Ben Watt's playing the pin-drop Old Town School of Folk Music, and playing the, like, 50-seat Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis on his July tour. Sounds great if it's not a DJ set.

shit, i'm going to have to miss the chicago date.

oh well, he'll be back in town ca. 2040.

I do like his Deep Folk Mix Tapes.

Thorn book is £1.99 in the Book Store (Banbury but presumably other branches, too).