Nick Heyward / The Epic and Creation Years 1993-1998

Nick Heyward is releasing a 4CD box set of the three albums he made during the 1990s for Epic and Creation: From Monday To Sunday, Tangled and The Apple Bed. The compilation, with the self-explanatory title The Epic And Creation Years 1993-98, adds demos of several unreleased songs on each album, as well as the usual B-sides and live versions.

Following his sole album for Reprise, 1988’s I Love You Avenue, Heyward waited five years before releasing his next record. From Monday To Sunday in 1993 was the first of Heyward’s two albums for Epic and was also his first self-produced LP. Bass is by ex-Haircut 100 bandmate Les Nemes, with trumpet by Steve Sidwell.

Tangled was released by Epic in 1995. Its second single, ‘Rollerblade’, returned Heyward to the Top 40 for the first time since ‘Warning Sign’ in 1984. Tangled featured bass by Ride guitarist Andy Bell, five years before Bell joined Oasis, with other guests including Julian Cope’s guitarist Donald Ross Skinner, Caravan viola player Geoffrey Richardson and, duetting on ‘Believe In Me’, Heavenly singer Amelia Fletcher, formerly of Talula Gosh. Tangled, which made No 93, was the only one of the three albums on the box set to reach the Top 100. 

For The Apple Bed in 1997, Heyward joined Creation, whose boss Alan McGee was a particularly big admirer of From Monday To Sunday’s single ‘Kite’. As with its two predecessors, The Apple Bed is self-produced.

All three albums were previously reissued by Cherry Red in 2010-11. The box set, released by Edsel, features the Cherry Red bonus content, plus additional unreleased songs on each album.

From Monday To Sunday newly adds demos of unreleased songs ‘The Best (Hey There I Love You)’ and ‘Jubilee Sunshine’, plus the “Revisited” versions of previous solo singles ‘Blue Hat For A Blue Day’ and ‘Whistle Down The Wind’, which originally featured on the B-side of ‘He Doesn’t Love You Like I Do’.

The bonus content on Tangled now stretches across two CDs. New material added since its 2011 reissue includes covers of The Beatles’ ‘Dr Robert’ and The Jam’s ‘Sounds From The Street’, recorded at a show in Bolder, Colorado, in February 1994. It also adds demos of album tracks ‘Kill Another Day’, ‘Carry On Loving’, ‘Mr Shirt And Tie’ and ‘London’, alongside ultimately unreleased songs ‘Secrets’, ‘Some Holiday’, ‘Sue Washes Another Dish’ and ‘I Don’t Feel Like It Anymore’, plus an instrumental demo of ‘Secrets’, entitled ‘Fan Mail’.

The Apple Bed adds just one unreleased track from its 2011 reissue, a demo of ‘Dear Miss Finland’ entitled ‘Mad About You’.

Each of the three albums will also be available on coloured vinyl. It’s the first time Tangled and The Apple Bed will be out on the format, while From Monday To Sunday has only previously been on vinyl via a Dutch pressing in 1993.

Following The Apple Bed, Heyward released “audio play” Open Sesame Seed in 2001 and 2006’s duets album The Mermaid And The Lighthouse Keeper with his then-partner, actress India Dupre, before returning to regular pop with 2017’s Woodland Echoes.

Haircut 100 reformed in 2023 and have toured regularly since. A new album, their first with Heyward since Pelican Westin 1982, is due out next year. It will be produced by Heyward’s son, Oliver Heyward, who co-produced Woodland Echoes. A single, ‘The Unloving Plum’, was released last year.

The Epic And Creation Years 1993-98 is released by Edsel on 31 October 2025. Exclusive SIGNED editions of the 4CD set (limited to 1,000 units) are available via Amazon UK.

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Tracklisting

The Epic and Creation Years 1993-1998 Nick Heyward / 4CD deluxe set

• • CD 1: From Monday to Sunday
    1. He Doesn’t Love You Like I Do
    2. Kite
    3. Into Your Life
    4. Caravan
    5. Ordinary People
    6. How Do You Live Without Sunshine
    7. January Man
    8. Mr Plain
    9. These Words
    10. All I Want You To Know
    11. Diary
    12. Everytime
    13. Something Inside
    14. Women In Love
    15. Say What You Got To Say
    16. Blue Hat For A Blue Day (Revisited)
    17. Whistle Down The Wind (Revisited)
    18. The Best (Hey There I Love You)
    19. House Of Love (1992 Demo)
    20. Jubilee Sunshine (1989 Demo)

  • CD 2: Tangled
    1. Kill Another Day
    2. Blinded
    3. Backdated
    4. She Says She Knows
    5. The World
    6. Carry On Loving
    7. I Love The Thing You Know I Don’t Know
    8. Can’t Explain
    9. Believe In Me
    10. Rollerblade
    11. The Breadwinner
    12. London
    13. She’s Another Girl
    14. 1961
    15. Mr Shirt And Tie
    16. Friday
    17. The World (Radio Edit)
    18. Fantastic Day (Acoustic Version)
    19. Kite (Acoustic Version)
    20. Caravan (Acoustic Version)
  • CD 3: Tangled – Continued
    1. Better Place
    2. Famous Man
    3. If I Needed Someone
    4. Nowhere Man
    5. All My Loving
    6. Kill Another Day (April 1994 Demo)
    7. Fan Mail (Instrumental April 1994 Demo)
    8. Carry On Loving (July 1994 Demo)
    9. Secrets (July 1994 Demo)
    10. Some Holiday (July 1994 Demo)
    11. London (July 1994 Demo)
    12. Sue Washes Another Dish (July 1994 Demo)
    13. Mr Shirt And Tie (July 1994 Demo)
    14. I Don’t Feel Like It Anymore (July 1994 Demo)
    15. Dr Robert (Live at The Fox Theatre, Bolder, 14/02/1994)
    16. Sounds From The Street (Live at The Fox Theatre, Bolder, 14/02/1994)
  • CD 4: The Apple Bed
    1. Star In Her Eyes
    2. In Every Place
    3. My Heavy Head
    4. The Chelsea Sky
    5. Just Like Sorrow
    6. Closer
    7. The Goodbye Man
    8. Reach Out For The Sun
    9. Today
    10. I Don’t Really Know You
    11. Dear Miss Finland
    12. The Man You Used To Be
    13. 3 Colours
    14. A Beautiful Place
    15. Time
    16. Shine
    17. The Brightest Pearl
    18. Going Somewhere
    19. The End
    20. Mad About You (Dear Miss Finland Demo)

Tracklisting

From Monday to Sunday Nick Heyward / Coloured vinyl LP

• • 1. He Doesn’t Love You Like I Do
    2. Kite
    3. Into Your Life
    4. Caravan
    5. Ordinary People
    6. How Do You Live Without Sunshine
    7. January Man
    8. Mr Plain
    9. These Words
    10. All I Want You To Know
    11. Diary
    12. Everytime

Tracklisting

Tangled Nick Heyward / Coloured vinyl LP

• • 1. Kill Another Day
    2. Blinded
    3. Backdated
    4. She Says She Knows
    5. The World
    6. Carry On Loving
    7. I Love The Thing You Know I Don’t Know
    8. Can’t Explain
    9. Believe In Me
    10. Rollerblade
    11. The Breadwinner
    12. London
    13. She’s Another Girl
    14. 1961

Tracklisting

The Apple Bed Nick Heyward / Coloured vinyl LP

• • 1. Star In Her Eyes
    2. In Every Place
    3. My Heavy Head
    4. The Chelsea Sky
    5. Just Like Sorrow
    6. Closer
    7. The Goodbye Man
    8. Reach Out For The Sun
    9. Today
    10. I Don’t Really Know You
    11. Dear Miss Finland
    12. The Man You Used To Be