If you listen to Lauren Laverne on BBC6 Music this week you’ll hear choice cuts from our April bound box Birth Of A Nation: Inevitable Records, as her compilation of the week. Thanks Lauren Laverne!
Head over to listen to Lauren’s online player here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c000j
Birth Of A Nation: Inevitable Records – An Independent Liverpool 1979-1986, Singles, B-Sides and Peel Sessions, 3CD
• 3CDs OF SINGLES, B-SIDES AND PEEL SESSIONS FROM THE INEVITABLE RECORDS ROSTER – THE LEGENDARY LIVERPOOL LABEL.
• PRODUCED BY THE TEAM BEHIND THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL ‘REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT – THE SOUND OF LIVERPOOL 1976-1989’
• MANY TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED OR NEVER BEFORE ON CD.
• INCLUDES PETE BURNS’ NIGHTMARES IN WAX AND DEAD OR ALIVE – SINGLES AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED PEEL SESSIONS.
• PLUS LIVERPOOL LEGENDS – CHINA CRISIS, WAH! HEAT, IT’S IMMATERIAL, MODERN EON, BOX OF TOYS, FREEZE FRAME AND MANY MORE.
• INCLUDES SLEEVENOTES FROM INEVITABLE FOUNDER JEREMEY LEWIS.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Jeremy Lewis established and ran Liverpool’s Inevitable Records, and in doing so provided what he calls an “incubator” for an impressive selection of the talent emerging from the city at that time. From PETE BURNS and DEAD OR ALIVE to CHINA CRISIS, WAH! HEAT and others, Inevitable provided the launchpad for many successful careers. Operating initially out of Lewis’ Amazon Studios, and mutating as the years passed from an outlet for the city’s spiky post-punk sounds to a synth-pop, commercially minded imprint with major label backing, Inevitable proved popular with JOHN PEEL and found admirers from across the ‘80s musical spectrum.
Presented here for the first time is an overview of the label, including a disc of contemporary Peel Sessions from key artists and a 3,000 word account of its story by Jeremey Lewis himself. Of particular interest to many will be never-before-heard (or re-issued) work by a young PETE BURNS – his first Nightmares In Wax single, two DEAD OR ALIVE singles PLUS two PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED Dead Or Alive PEEL SESSIONS are included.
A further look at the wonderful music explored in ‘REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT’ this is an in-depth look at the roots of several special careers, produced with input from Inevitable founder Jeremey Lewis.
DISC ONE
SINGLES: 1979-1982
1. BETTER SCREAM – Wah! Heat
2. JOE – Wah! Heat
3. BLACK LEATHER – Nightmares In Wax
4. SHANGRI-LA – Nightmares In Wax
5. GIRL SONG – Nightmares In Wax
6. EUTHENICS – Modern Eon
7. WAITING FOR THE CAVALRY – Modern Eon
8. SEVEN MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT… TO BE CONTINUED – Wah! Heat
9. DON’T STEP ON THE CRACKS – Wah! Heat
10. I’M FALLING – Dead Or Alive
11. FLOWERS – Dead Or Alive
12. FACTION – Faction
13. WRONG AGAIN – Faction
14. NUMBER ELEVEN – Dead Or Alive
15. NAMEGAME (LIVE VERSION) – Dead Or Alive
16. A GIANT RAFT – It’s Immaterial
17. NO PLACE FOR A PROMPTER –
It’s Immaterial
18. AFRICAN AND WHITE – China Crisis
19. BE SUSPICIOUS – China Crisis
DISC TWO
SINGLES: 1983-1986
1. YOUR VOICE – Freeze Frame
2. CONVERSATION PIECE – Freeze Frame
3. I’M THINKING OF YOU NOW – Box Of Toys
4. OLD MAN ROME – Box Of Toys
5. FOXHOLE – Freeze Frame
6. FURNISHED HEART – Freeze Frame
7. PRECIOUS IS THE PEARL – Box Of Toys
8. IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING – Box Of Toys
9. SEEKING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE – Freeze Frame
10. MY 10,000 MILE HOME – Freeze Frame
11. TOUCH – Freeze Frame
12. PERSONAL TOUCH – Freeze Frame
13. JIMMY’S GRIN – Margox
14. DAYTIME ASSASSINS – The Builders
15. BURNING ARROWS – Venus Adore
16. CONTRASTING STRANGERS – The Light
17. MONUMENT – The Light
18. TODAY, TOMORROW – Freeze Frame
19. ONLY A BOY – Freeze Frame
20. PRIDE OF WINNING – The Light
21. TEN MILLION YEARS – The Light
DISC THREE
PEEL SESSIONS 1981-1983
1. NOWHERE TO NOWHERE – Dead Or Alive
2. RUNNING WILD – Dead Or Alive
3. NUMBER ELEVEN – Dead Or Alive
4. FLOWERS – Dead Or Alive
5. A GIGANTIC RAFT – It’s Immaterial
6. IMITATE THE WORM – It’s Immaterial
7. WHITE MAN’S HUT – It’s Immaterial
8. RAKE – It’s Immaterial
9. NUMBER TWELVE – Dead Or Alive
10. UNTITLED – Dead Or Alive
11. MISTY CIRCLES – Dead Or Alive
12. MISTY CIRCLES PT 2 – Dead Or Alive
13. FOX HOLE – Freeze Frame
14. PERSONAL TOUCH – Freeze Frame
15. YOUR VOICE – Freeze Frame
16. TODAY TOMORROW – Freeze Frame
17. PRECIOUS IN THE PEARL – Box Of Toys
18. WHEN DAYLIGHT IS OVER (SUNSET) – Box Of Toys
19. TIME TAKES ME BACK – Box Of Toys
20. THINKING OF YOU NOW – Box Of Toys
