NewsThe Bluebells / Sisters reissue
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Scottish indie-pop band The Bluebells‘ 1984 album Sisters gets the full reissue treatment in June with expanded and remastered CD and vinyl editions available.
Signed to London Records, the band – according to Will Hodgkinson, who pens sleeve notes for this re-release – “were the very essence of indie – they helped define its jangling, guitar-led sound – while maintaining an accessibility that went to the heart of their working-class roots“.
The album reached a modest No 22 at the time despite delivering four UK top 40 singles, including ‘Young at Heart’, which peaked at number eight (it would reach No 1 in 1993 when re-released due to its inclusion in a VW Golf advert). Despite the success, it would be the group’s only album and they disbanded a few years later.
Formats for the new reissue are a 3CD+DVD box set which offers B-sides, non-album tracks, live and extended versions, previously unreleased BBC sessions and early takes, music videos and TV performances. A 2LP vinyl edition offers the album on the first LP and highlights from the CD bonus tracks on the second. Orders of any format from the band’s official shop ship with an exclusive 5-track CD single of ‘Cath’.
Sisters is reissued on 27 June 2025, via London Records. The Bluebells will perform on the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury Festival a day after the release date, and will tour around the UK throughout the summer and autumn.
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Tracklisting
Sisters The Bluebells /
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CD 1: The Album, Plus Bonus Tracks
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool (Alternative Version)
- Young At Heart
- I’m Falling
- Will She Always Be Waiting
- Some Sweet Day
- Cath (Longer Version)
- H.O.L.L.A.N.D.
- Red Guitars
- Syracuse University
- Learn To Love
- The Patriot Game
- South Atlantic Way (Full)
- Aim In Life
- Forevermore (7” Version)
- Sugar Bridge (7” Version)
- All I Am (Is Loving You) (12” Version)
- The Ballad Of Joe Hill
- Forever Yours, Forever Mine (Dub Version)
- Cath (US Remix)
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CD 2: B-Sides And Single Mixes
- Forevermore
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool (Original Album Version)
- Cath (12” Version)
- All I Ever Said
- Fall From Grace
- Sugar Bridge (Extended Version)
- Happy Birthday (Turn Gold)
- I’m Falling (US Edit)
- Young At Heart (Extended Version)
- Tender Mercy
- Wishful Thinking (Will She Always Be Waiting)
- Smalltown Martyr
- All I Am (Is Loving You) (7” Version)
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool (Original April ‘82 Version)
- Happy Birthday (Turn Gold) (Alternate Version)
- All I Am (Is Loving You) (Robert’s Edit)
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool (No Strings Version)
- Young At Heart (Club Remix)
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CD 3:
- Goodbye And Good Luck (Kid Jensen Session, 1981)
- Happy Birthday (Kid Jensen Session, 1981)
- Oh Dear (Kid Jensen Session, 1981)
- You’re Gonna Miss Me (Kid Jensen Session, 1981)
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool (Kid Jensen Session, 1982)
- Some Sweet Day (Kid Jensen Session, 1982)
- Sugar Bridge (Kid Jensen Session, 1982)
- Wishful Thinking (Kid Jensen Session, 1982)
- Learn To Love (Kid Jensen Session, 1983)
- Red Guitars (Kid Jensen Session, 1983)
- Smalltown Martyr To Love (Kid Jensen Session, 1983)
- Young At Heart (Kid Jensen Session, 1983)
- Sugar Bridge (Early Version, 1982)
- East Green (Early Version, 1981)
- Lifeboat (Live At Camden Palace, 1985)
- Honest John (Live At Camden Palace, 1985)
- Forevermore (Early Version, 1981)
- Cath (Live At Camden Palace, 1985)
- I’m Falling (Live At Camden Palace, 1985)
- All I Am (Is Loving You) (Live At Camden Palace, 1985)
- Sugar Bridge (Live At Camden Palace, 1985)
- Young At Heart (Live At Camden Palace, 1985)
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DVD: Promotional Videos And BBC TV Appearances
Music Videos
- Cath
- I’m Falling
- Young At Heart
- Cath (Remix)
- All I Am (Is Loving You)
The Old Grey Whistle Test
- Forevermore
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
- Red Guitars
Top Of The Pops
- I’m Falling
- Young At Heart
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CD 1: The Album, Plus Bonus Tracks
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By Paul Sinclair
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