Fresh fish

Doing exactly what it says it does on the cover, the CD gathers together ten of the 60 tracks that didn’t make it onto the 1988 classic.

“I love Fisherman’s Blues but it only tells a fraction of the story,” Mike Scott explains. “A few of the other songs snuck out later on B-sides, but dozens remained unfinished, unheard. I knew one day I’d revisit the tapes, finish some of the best stuff and put out another album that set the record straighter.”

As it happened, “It took eight years and several lifetimes to slow down long enough to listen systematically to all the tapes. At last, on January 4th 2001, I picked up where I left off. The work used me, absorbed me, took me deep into every song, into my cell memory of the music and the times, satisfied me, gratified me, sealed long unfinished business, turned me on, made me yell ‘yes!’ in the studio again and again.”

I think we can safely assume that he enjoyed the experience!