News 11 Sep 2024

Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club / The Definitive Anthology 1977-1981

3CD box set with unreleased recordings

By Paul Sinclair

Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club : The Definitive Anthology

3CD clamshell box with a wealth of unreleased material

Cherry Red are to release The Definitive Anthology 1977-1981 a new 3CD set that offers released and unreleased recordings from the brief time in the spotlight enjoyed by Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club.

Best known for his association with Trevor Horn, Woolley co-wrote ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ with future Buggles Horn and Geoff Downes and notably also co-wrote Grace Jones’ 1985 single/album ‘Slave to the Rhythm’ (with Horn, Stephen Lipson and Simon Darlow).

Despite having created ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ with Horn and Downes in 1978, Woolley bailed out of being in a band with the pair to form The Camera Club in 1979 with himself handling vocals, Dave Birch on guitar, Thomas Dolby on keyboards, Matthew Seligman on bass and Rod Johnson on drums. The band released their version of ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ before Buggles (it wasn’t a hit) and issued their debut album English Garden in 1979 and went on to tour in England, USA and Canada. CBS refused to release their second album and the group disbanded.

The Camera Club version of Video Killed The Radio Star was issued before the Buggles version

This new 3CD clamshell box set features 69 tracks in total of which 41 are previously unreleased. It expands the first record and delivers tracks that were recorded for their second unreleased album and also includes two unreleased concerts.

The set includes a 28-page booklet containing rare and previously unseen images and a brand new annotation featuring quotes from band members Bruce Woolley, Dave Birch and Thomas Dolby.

The Definitive Anthology 1977-1981 will be released on 15 November 2024, via Cherry Red.

BRUCE WOOLLEY & THE CAMERA CLUB

The Definitive Anthology 1977-1981 3CD box

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Tracklisting

- CD 1: English Garden – Expanded Version
  1. English Garden
  2. Video Killed The Radio Star
  3. Dancing With The Sporting Boys
  4. Johnny
  5. No Surrender
  6. Flying Man
  7. You Got Class
  8. WW9
  9. Clean Clean
  10. Get Away William
  11. Goodbye To Yesterday
  12. Goodbye To Yesterday (Reprise)
  13. You’re The Circus (I’m The Clown)
  14. News (Eden Studios)*
  15. The Killers – No Surrender
  16. The Killers – Killer On The Dancefloor
  17. Clean Clean (US Version)
  18. Video Killed the Radio Star (US Version)
  19. Goodbye to Yesterday (US Version)
  20. Bruce Woolley – Bobby Bad
  21. Bruce Woolley – You’re The Circus (I’m The Clown) (B-side)
  22. Bruce Woolley – You Got Class (Soundsuite Studios)*
  23. Bruce Woolley – Going To The City*
  24. Bruce Woolley – Needletime*
  25. Bruce Woolley – Sugar Daddy (8 Track Demo)*
  * Previous Unreleased
- CD 2: Polaroid – Snapshots Of Sound
  1. I Set Fire To You*
  2. Bruce Woolley – Ghost Train
  3. Killer On The Dancefloor (Olympic Studios)*
  4. Trouble Is
  5. Only Babies Can Fly
  6. All Real Americans*
  7. Morning Shadows*
  8. Ghost Train (Olympic Studios)*
  9. All At Once
  10. Warning Shadows*
  11. Bruce Woolley – Blue Blue Victoria
  12. Bruce Woolley – 1000 MPH
  13. Bruce Woolley – The Black Girls Understand*
  14. Bruce Woolley – Ghost Train (Club Mix)
  15. How Do You Say Goodbye?*
  16. Too Late For Tears (Demo Version)*
  17. Bruce Woolley – Blue Blue Victoria (Demo Version)*
  18. Bruce Woolley – You Got Class (Revox Demo)*
  19. News (Olympic Studios)*
  20. House Of Wax
  21. Radio Pictures (Bye Bye Love)*
  * Previous Unreleased
- CD 3: In Concert
  Live at High Wycombe Town Hall 6th May 1979
  1. You’re The Circus (I’m The Clown)
  2. You Got Class
  3. Too Late For Tears
  4. Clean Clean
  5. The Problem
  6. Goodbye To Yesterday
  7. Johnny
  8. Video Killed The Radio Star
  9. No Surrender
  10. Dancing With The Sporting Boys
  11. News
  12. Flying Man
  Live at My Father’s Place, Long Island, USA 25th March 1980
  1. You’re The Circus (I’m The Clown)
  2. News
  3. You Got Class
  4. Trouble Is
  5. Johnny
  6. Get Away William
  7. Dancing With The Sporting Boys
  8. I Set Fire To You
  9. No Surrender
  10. English Garden
  11. Video Killed The Radio Star
  All tracks previously unreleased.

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