Moments Like These

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2021-08-16

Label: Texte Und Töne

One-time pressing of 450 black-vinyl LPs
Each LP comes with:
• A Subway Sect flexi - a 1980 live bootleg of Holiday Hymn (secretly recorded by Postcard Records' Alan Horne and Orange Juice's Steven Daly at Camden Music Machine, London 28 March 1980; the pair took it back to Glasgow, shared it with Edwyn Collins, deciphered the lyrics with him, and then had Orange Juice cover it)
• 16-pp booklet (featuring essays by Stephen Pastel, Orange Juice's Steven Daly, Kevin Pearce - author of the Something Beginning With 'O')
• 5 postcards containing rare/ new images of Vic and Subway Sect (one taken by Alan Horne)
• Printed inner sleeve with lyrics
• Cover photography by cultural historian and Saint Etienne/ Paul Kelly collaborator Travis Elborough.

The album features Vic Godard and his 1981 “Songs For Sale”-era line-up of Sean McLusky, Chris Bostock, Johnny Britton & David Collard, the band that would become JoBoxers.

Moments Like These is the first Subway Sect LP ever released in the States. It was made by S.S. Sandhu for his publishing/music imprint TEXT UND TÖNE. Mr. Sandhu is an Associate Professor of English and Social and Cultural Analysis in New York University’s Arts & Science Department.