{"id":36534,"date":"2021-04-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36534"},"modified":"2021-04-17T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T13:14:10","slug":"past-night-from-glasgow-reissue-bmx-bandits-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36534","title":{"rendered":"Past Night From Glasgow reissue BMX Bandits &#8216;Star Wars&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Night From Glasgow&#8217;s sister label Past Night From Glasgow has announced the 30th anniversary reissue of the seminal sophmore LP from the BMX Bandits &#8216;Star Wars&#8217;. The album has been remastered on vinyl and will be out to coincide with&nbsp;May 4th&nbsp;(Star Wars Day).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Star Wars\u2019 features the classic BMX Bandits line up: Duglas T Stewart, Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Joe McAlinden (Superstar), Eugene Kelly (The Vaselines), Gordon Keen and Francis MacDonald (Teenage Fanclub) &#8211; the album is jam packed full of chiming guitars and catchy choruses, not to mention the odd spectacular ballad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sleeve has also been updated (with new wallpaper no less) and now features a die-cut photo frame sleeve with printed inner. This reissue sees the album get its first release on vinyl outside of Japan since 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BC683FB2-E515-425E-94E7-1A11041BB5E8-scaled.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BC683FB2-E515-425E-94E7-1A11041BB5E8.jpeg?resize=1024%2C1024\" alt=\"BMX Bandits Star Wars cover artwork\" class=\"wp-image-36537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BC683FB2-E515-425E-94E7-1A11041BB5E8-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BC683FB2-E515-425E-94E7-1A11041BB5E8-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BC683FB2-E515-425E-94E7-1A11041BB5E8-scaled.jpeg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BC683FB2-E515-425E-94E7-1A11041BB5E8-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C768 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BC683FB2-E515-425E-94E7-1A11041BB5E8-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1536 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BC683FB2-E515-425E-94E7-1A11041BB5E8-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C2048 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More about BMX Bandits<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BMX Bandits were formed in 1985 by songwriter and lead vocalist&nbsp;&nbsp;Duglas&nbsp;T Stewart out of the ashes of The Pretty Flowers, a short-lived group that featured Stewart alongside Frances McKee (The&nbsp;Vaselines), Sean Dickson (The Soup Dragons) and Norman Blake (Teenage&nbsp;Fanclub).<br><br>Their songs mix melodic qualities and humour with, at times, raw and heartbreaking pathos. Stewart has written many of the group&#8217;s works solo including <em>Your Class<\/em>, <em>The Sailor&#8217;s Song<\/em> and <em>Doorways<\/em> but also has collaborated with many of the other members. Stewart&#8217;s most regular&nbsp;songwriting&nbsp;partners have been Francis Macdonald, Norman Blake and, more recently, David Scott of The&nbsp;Pearlfishers&nbsp;and original Bandits lead guitarist Jim McCulloch.<br><br>Starting with the exuberant&nbsp;\u2018E102<em>\u2019<\/em>&nbsp;in 1986, BMX Bandits released a series of singles on Stephen Pastels&#8217; 53<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;&amp; 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;label, where they were label mates with The&nbsp;Vaselines&nbsp;and Beat Happening. Later they joined Alan McGee&#8217;s Creation Records. BMX Bandits released three albums on Creation. The group&#8217;s most celebrated song is the autobiographical <em>Serious Drugs<\/em>, recorded in 1991 but not released until 1993.<br><br>Stewart split with his long term musical partner Francis Macdonald in 2005 but 2006 saw a new wave of live concert activity and the release of&nbsp;\u2018My Chain\u2019. The line up was expanded by the arrival of Stewart&#8217;s friend David Scott and new female vocalist Rachel Allison. The follow-up, 2007&#8217;s&nbsp;\u2018Bee Stings\u2019, was influenced by classic girl group pop plus the mellow A &amp; M sound of the late 1960s and early 70s.<br><br>The band&#8217;s&nbsp;first album&nbsp;release&nbsp;with&nbsp;Elefant&nbsp;Records \u2018BMX Bandits&nbsp;In&nbsp;Space\u2019 in 2012&nbsp;was hailed by some critics as their most accomplished release so far, \u201c<em>a stunning, brilliant and beautiful album\u201d<\/em>.&nbsp;This was followed in 2017 by \u2018BMX Bandits Forever\u2019.&nbsp;A highly acclaimed feature-length documentary called&nbsp;\u2018Serious Drugs &#8211;&nbsp;Duglas&nbsp;and the Music of BMX Bandits\u2019 was premiered in<em>&nbsp;<\/em>Glasgow in<em>&nbsp;<\/em>2011, followed by a series of international festival screening and a DVD release.<br><br>Interest in the music of the BMX Bandits continues and 2020 saw the re-release of \u2018C86\u2019 and \u2018Your Chain\u2019 while 2021 brings the 30<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;anniversary release of arguably their finest album \u2018Star Wars\u2019 via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.lastnightfromglasgow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Last Night From Glasgow<\/a>.<br><br>The line-up of the group continues to be ever changing with the latest addition to the line up being multi-instrumentalist Chloe Philip. Despite all the changes in personnel the heart and soul of the group remains the same, an extended musical family led by the inimitable&nbsp;Duglas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Last Night From Glasgow&#8217;s sister label Past Night From Glasgow has announced the 30th anniversary reissue of the seminal sophmore LP from the BMX Bandits <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36534\" title=\"Past Night From Glasgow reissue BMX Bandits &#8216;Star Wars&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,30],"tags":[10175,10177,964,3647],"class_list":["post-36534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-bmx-bandits","tag-past-night-from-glasgow","tag-reissue","tag-star-wars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/238137C0-5594-48B4-B1D2-F060EECDA6F2.jpeg?fit=604%2C393","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-9vg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21407,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=21407","url_meta":{"origin":36534,"position":0},"title":"Label Obscura to reissue Manon Meurt debut EP","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"April 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Upstart Canadian imprint\u00a0Label Obscura\u00a0has announced the vinyl reissue of the debut EP by Czech Republic shoegaze\/ noise pop quartet\u00a0Manon Meurt, making it available in North America for the first time. 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