Luxuriously offered in a full print slipcase boxed set with full LP sleeves and deluxe serigraph 12×12 booklet, we offer up a period of The Wake which has not been available on vinyl since its initial pressings on Factory Records two and a half decades ago.
Long considered their masterwork, Here Comes Everybody is post-punk at its lushest and most alluring. With its underlying urgency peppered with a frost of delicate melody, its influence has only really begun to make headways through a myriad of sub-genres within independent, often cited as a key influence on our own label roster. This impeccable LP is bolstered by the equally inspired EP’s and singles that surrounded it, Talk About the Past, Of The Matter and Something That No One Else Can Bring have long been difficult finds for an aspiring record collection, until now. This will mark the first time any of these recording have been pressed on vinyl domestically in the US and the first time all housed in one package.

Side A

O Pamela

Send Them Away

Sail Through

Melancholy Man

Side B

World of Her Own

Torn Calendar

All I Asked You to Do

Here Comes Everybody

Side C

Talk About the Past 12″

Of the Matter

Gruesome Castle

Pale Spectre

Side D

Furious Sea

Plastic Flowers

Host

Of the Matter (version)

DISCLAIMER: Please do not order this box set with any of our new available releases, other than our other Record Store Day Box Sets. Your order will be held up until 4/21. We know you do not want that.

RELEASE DATE: 4/21/12

This Rainy Decade

Time In Vain

Only A Shadow

Corridor of Dreams

Wivenhoe Bells (II)

Midnight Cleaners

Factory Boy

A Wretched Street

Don’t Worry About The Ads

SHIPS: 4/21/12

Night Starvation

Tukani (Monday is Grey)

A Girl With Cars In Her Eyes

I Can’t Stop Holding On

Living On Nerve Ends

I Wanna Do That

European War

Hungry Day

F.U.N.

Be An Idiot Popstar

Marilyn On A Train (1982)

SHIPS: 4/21/12

BLOW AWAY YOUR TROUBLES

Swinging London

A Blue Wave

Union Lads

Helpless

Winter In The Country

Modern TV

The Trevor Rutter Experience

Marathon

A Personal Issue

Marathon (2)

Urban Jungle

A Minimal Animal

I Fell In Love With A Cleaner

So This Is Modern Jazz, Is It?

Marilyn On A Train (1981 version)

A Weekend In Subordia

Wivenhoe Bells (1980 version)

University Challenge

Alien

At Home With Myself

The Artichoke That Loved Me

ON ANY NORMAL MONDAY

This Rainy Decade

Time In Vain

Only A Shadow

Corridor of Dreams

Wivenhoe Bells (II)

Midnight Cleaners

Factory Boy

A Wretched Street

Don’t Worry About The Ads

MIDNIGHT CLEANERS

This Rainy Decade

Time In Vain

Only A Shadow

Corridor of Dreams

Wivenhoe Bells (II)

Midnight Cleaners

Factory Boy

A Wretched Street

Don’t Worry About The Ads

Lol Elliot and Martin Newell, who together formed the legendary lo-fi band Cleaners From Venus met in the small town of Wivenhow, southeast England at the turn of the 1980s. Newell, a rock singer and part-time kitchen porter who’d left his band the previous summer and Elliot, a drummer and former hippy traveler, had much in common. They shared a love of sunny 1960s pop music, punk rock and musical comedy. Neither Elliot nor Newell cared much for any kind of musical rule book. Both were dismayed by the new right-wing politics which had now taken over the country. Both were in their twenties, had time on their hands and were keen to start something new.

This is The Cleaners From Venus Vol. 1 Box Set, including the first three albums, completely remastered and on vinyl for the first time. Previously only released on small-run cassettes, these three albums carved a niche for the cult band that would go on to become an inspiration to many. Martin Newell never played by the rules and went on to become a success in his own right.

// Blow Away Your Troubles 2xLP

Swinging London

A Blue Wave

Union Lads

Helpless

Winter In The Country

Modern TV

The Trevor Rutter Experience

Marathon

A Personal Issue

Marathon (2)

Urban Jungle

A Minimal Animal

I Fell In Love With A Cleaner

So This Is Modern Jazz, Is It?

Marilyn On A Train (1981 version)

A Weekend In Subordia

Wivenhoe Bells (1980 version)

University Challenge

Alien

At Home With Myself

The Artichoke That Loved Me

// On Any Normal Monday LP

Night Starvation

Tukani (Monday is Grey)

A Girl With Cars In Her Eyes

I Can’t Stop Holding On

Living On Nerve Ends

I Wanna Do That

European War

Hungry Day

F.U.N.

Be An Idiot Popstar

Marilyn On A Train (1982)

// Midnight Cleaners LP

This Rainy Decade

Time In Vain

Only A Shadow

Corridor of Dreams

Wivenhoe Bells (II)

Midnight Cleaners

Factory Boy

A Wretched Street

Don’t Worry About The Ads

DISCLAIMER: Please do not order this box set with any of our new available releases, other than our other Record Store Day Box Sets. Your order will be held up until 4/21. We know you do not want that.

RELEASE DATE: 4/21/12

Hilly Fields

D.C.T Dreams

Treeline

49 Cigars

Beverly

Elegant Daze

On The Coast

The Other Side

On The Beach (The Ladder Descends)

1923

6B Obergine

Marlon (featuring Peter March)

Rotten(Intro)

Right Way Round

English Sinner

Virginia

MTB

Side By Side

Snowy White

Take The Car

Sweetly Breathing

Teddy Bears

Across The Sea

Loggerheads

Meredith

The Sun, A Small Star

You’d Do Me Good

A Fleeting Visit

It Takes No Gentleman

Water Baby Blonde

It’s My Turn

Afterglow

She Whom Once I Dreampt

Rings On Her Fingers

Faithful To 3 Lovers

Do Or Be Done

She’s Always Hiding

3×3

Fat Of The Land

Mystery Chant

G.S. III

Operating Instructions

Pound Pound

Up From Hell

Help Me

Small World

Los Alamos

Cat Scan

Pcp

The Girl From Ipanema

Information

Guatemala

Abadon

Special World

Mother Told Me

No Clubs

Dreams

On Our Honeymoon

Give Up