Always Now

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Album Info

Release Date: 2019-08-01

Label: Factory Benelux

Limited bundle edition of 100 copies with two bonus postcards, one an original painting by Larry Cassidy bearing his printed signature on the reverse, and newly signed by Vin Cassidy and Paul Wiggin. This bundle also includes two A4 prints of posters for Belgian concerts by Section 25 in 1980 (Plan K 04/1980 and ULB 10/1980).

LPs housed in heavy outer case slipcase printed in PMS 123C with spot varnish. Includes near LP-sized 16-page booklet and MP3 copy. All tracks are newly re-mastered from the original quarter-inch tapes.

A3: C.P. = Collective Project

Disc 1 (Black Vinyl)
Always Now

Recorded at Britannia Row, London, February 1981. Originally released as Always Now on Factory Records (Fact 45) in August 1981.


Disc 2 (Clear Vinyl)
Forty Fives

A Fractured Production

C1 to C3 recorded at Cargo Studio, Rochdale, September 1979. Originally released as the 7" single Girls Don't Count on Factory Records (Fac 18) in July 1980.
C4 recorded at Cargo Studio, Rochdale. Originally released on the compilation album Hicks From The Sticks in April 1980.
C5 is an outtake from Always Now.

D1 and D2 recorded at Cargo Studio, Rochdale, July 1980. Originally released as the 7" single Charnel Ground / Haunted on Factory Benelux (FAC BN 3-006) in October 1980.

D3 recorded at Brittania Row, London, February 1981. Originaly released as a 7" single Section 25 - Je Veux Ton Amour on Factory Benelux (FAC BN 5) in August 1981. B-side is "Oyo Achel Ada" and not "One True Path" as erroneously stated on back cover.

D4 recorded for the John Peel show at Langham 1 on 13 January 1981. Originaly released on compilation CD Section 25 - Always Now in March 2015.

Disc 3 (Yellow Vinyl)
Live Master

E1 to E5 and F1 and F2 recorded live at the Vera Club, Groningen, Netherlands on 26 October 1980. Previously included with the 2015 Factory Benelux Always Now CD reissue.

F3 recorded live at the PaardVan Troje club, Den Haag, Netherlands on 1 November 1980.
F4 recorded live at Rock City, Nottingham on 18 April 1981.


Disk 4 (Red Vinyl)
The Key of Dreams

Recorded at SSRU during 1981. Originally released as the album The Key Of Dreams on Factory Benelux (FBN 14) in June 1982.


Disc 5 (Silver Vinyl)
Illuminus Illumina

Side I recorded at SSRU during 1981. Originally released as the cassette Illuminous Illuminae via Relevant Music in 1982.

J1 recorded at Singleton Street Rehearsal Unit (SSRU). Originally released on the compilation EP Blackpool Rox E.P. in August 1980.
J3 recorded live at Reading University on 8 May 1981 as an combined encore jam with New Order.

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