Saint Etienne News

A very decent innings from the Saints recorded live in Suffolk at the Latitude Festival which also included the likes of Kap Bambino, Sky Larkin & Fight Like Apes on the bill.

THERE seems to have been a trend recently for eighties bands to tour, performing their 'classic' albums.

Rock nostalgists are having a heady time of it. It is now possible to go to three gigs a week without hearing anything new, thanks to the number of bands playing "classic albums" in their entirety.

Saint Etienne, one of Heavenly Record's first signings, were the guests of honour for The Social's 10th birthday this Monday night.

With the Honeydrips, Tough Alliance, jj, and this group, the Sincerely Yours label has established itself as Sweden's chief castle of indie pop.

Brendan Benson and Noah And The Whale both release new albums today , while Friendly Fires and Saint Etienne reissue deluxe editions of their previous albums.

We got very excited about this a couple of months back , but now we've got a date for the Saint Etienne Foxbase Alpha CD Subbuteo boxset .

Saint Etienne have announced details to release expanded and re-mastered versions of their albums 'So Tough' and 'Sound Of Water' . Both records will be re-released on August 31 as deluxe editions featuring the original album, an extra disc of session tracks, B-sides and extensive sleeve-notes. So Tough , the groupa TMs second album, was originally ...

Saint Etienne have announced details of the release of expanded and re-mastered versions of their albums So Tough and Sound Of Water on Heavenly through Universal on August 31st 2009.

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I have been very remiss in not pimping the reissue of Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha in a grand 2CD deluxe edition .

A great tune sounds so much better in the summertime when, as the great Ella Fitzgerald famously crooned, the livin' is easy.

THERE can be few bands who would announce an intermission between their main set and their encore and then use a Daffy Duck cartoon to fill the gap.

We mentioned this last week over on Electric Roulette and have featured the album on our short-lived Lost and Found section , but we're covering the classic Foxbase Alpha album by Saint Etienne for one more reason - this 6-inch Subbuteo player .

A new three-CD compilation album, 'Common People. The Britpop Story' , is set for release on June 8. The compilation features Pulp , The Stone Roses , Supergrass and Super Furry Animals a ' but not Oasis or Blur , who are widely credited to have kick-started the 1990s movement and were the two biggest UK bands of the time.