HAIRCUT 100 - Pelican West 40 [SIGNED Edition] - 4LP - 180g Vinyl Box Set [FEB 24]

4LP - Limited 40th Anniversary Celebration Edition 180g Black Vinyl Box Set (38-tracks) with Print SIGNED by the band. Only 750 copies pressed in this edition. Half-speed master from the original tapes of their debut album Pelican West, two LPs of extended versions, B-sides and special remixes, plus the first-ever release of the eleven tracks that the band were working on in late Summer 1982 for the follow up album to Pelican West, to be titled Blue Hat For A Blue Day.

Demon Records are delighted to announce the release of Pelican West 40, a celebration edition of Haircut 100’s much-loved debut album, released with full cooperation of the band. The group moved from being London underground darlings to chart sensations in less than six months, and within a year had disappeared into pop’s ether, leaving behind one memorable album and four Top 10 UK singles.

The set features:

• Exclusive SIGNED EDITION, includes a limited-edition print (750 copies worldwide) signed by Haircut 100

•  a brand-new half-speed master from the original tapes of their debut album Pelican West, first released in February 1982, reaching No 2 in the UK and No 31 in the US.

•  Two LPs of extended versions, B-sides and special remixes.

•  plus the first-ever release of the eleven tracks that the band were working on in late Summer 1982 for the follow up album to Pelican West, to be titled Blue Hat For A Blue Day. Although unfinished, the five instrumentals, one guide- and five vocal tracks enthusiastically illustrate what would have happened next. Includes the Haircut 100 version of Club Boy At Sea and Whistle Down The Wind as well as an instrumental of A Blue Hat For A Blue Day, which were all to feature on Nick Heyward’s first solo album, North Of A Miracle in 1983.

Pressed on four 180g-vinyl LPs, in quadruple gatefold packaging featuring a 5000 word note, an oral history of the time with all six members, interviewed and assembled by the set’s curator, author and DJ Daryl Easlea. Newly mastered by Phil Kinrade and cut by Barry Grint at AIR Mastering.

A comprehensive 54-track 4CD edition is also available, along with a 1LP edition of the original Pelican West album mastered at halfspeed.


“Lots of people are discovering Haircut 100 now and that album and saying it’s fresh as a fantastic daisy, every time, that’s the wonder of it.” – Nick Heyward (vocals and guitar), 2022

“In our pre-senile dementia years, we can sit here and still feel proud of something we did when we were nippers.” – Marc Fox (percussion), 2022

“This is what bands should be, nobody made any sense!” – Blair Cunningham (drums), 2022

Tracklist:

LP 1 Pelican West Half-Speed Master
Side A
1. Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
2. Love Plus One
3. Lemon Firebrigade
4. Marine Boy
5. Milk Film
6. Kingsize (You’re My Little Steam Whistle)

Side B
1. Fantastic Day
2. Baked Beans
3. Snow Girl
4. Love’s Got Me In Triangles
5. Surprise Me Again
6. Calling Captain Autumn

LP 2 Pelican Plus Part One
Side A
1. Boat Party (7” version)
2. Ski Club
3. Favourite Shirts(Boy Meets Girl) (12” version)
4. Love Plus One (12” version)
5. Fantastic Day (12” version)

Side B
1. Calling Captain Autumn (Special Extended Version)
2. Boat Party (12” version)
3. Marine Boy (12” Version)
4. Ski Club Of Great Britain

LP 3 Pelican Plus Part Two
Side A
1. Love’s Got Me In Triangles (Extended Version)
2. Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) (Extended Remix)
3. Fantastic Day (Live)

Side B
1. Calling Captain Autumn (Extended Remix)
2. Nobody’s Fool (12” Version)
3. October Is Orange (Day 1 & 2) (12” version)

LP 4 Junction Box – The Unfinished Tracks
Side A
1. I Believe In Sundays
2. Maytime Moments (Instrumental)
3. Cheek to Cheek (Instrumental)
4. Hayley’s Heart (Guide Vocal)
5. A Blue Hat for a Blue Day (Instrumental)

Side B
1. Coming Home (Instrumental)
2. Brookfield Girl
3. Sunny Boy, Sunny Girl
4. Club Boy at Sea
5. Steam Bus Junction (Instrumental)
6. Whistle Down the Wind