Have now got a payment declined on the BLT 12". The card is NOT maxed out, nowhere near and has NOT expired. Re ordered on a different card but now the delivery is 2nd December. If they try this payment declined crap one more time i"m just going to cancel the lot and seek elsewhere.

I went into Rough Trade East today on my lunch break and picked up the 12" singles for £16.99 each. No copies of the box-set on display, either on shelves or behind the counter.

Unsure I would've purchased in RTE anyway as it's a pricey place to buy stuff at the best of times. But I like to try and buy stuff in person if possible (a dying ritual) even if it means HMV or RTE.

Glad to read people are enjoying the live DVDs. I'm adopting "good things come to those who wait" on this one.

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My 12''s ordered on Amazon France are now announced to arrive today (wed 27) from...Barcelona

I finally got my box today from Amazon UK.

Disappointed to see one of those irritating white European FSK stickers on the corner of the box! Totally spoiling the look of the beautiful box.

Has anyone successfully peeled this sticker? I really don't want to damage my new box.

Not to be a pedant - well, absolutely to be a pedant because "that's what we do here" - but I don't think the Paradise remix featured anywhere before now other than the original Australian True Faith 12" and Retro. Certainly can't recall it featuring on other deluxe releases. It's not a bad remix, adds something different to the song. The Retro mastering always sounded like it had been dubbed from a cassette and the Definitive version sounds a bit better, so... nice.

They were never going to please everyone but I wish they'd found space for the "complete" 8 minute Touched By The Hand Of Dub on the extras disc, the one from: https://www.discogs.com/release/...tion-Original-Soundtrack with its 2 and a half minute unique intro before seguing into the standard 12" Dub. Also, there was that alternate take of the Salvation! Theme that made its way out on the "repaired" Collector's Edition disc of Low-life back in 2009 with different keyboards. I guess it can all be collated together for those who are fussed.

Mine’s still saying Friday, which I’m resigned to.

BLT arrived at the house late today, so thankfully my wife was home. No problem with this. Less packing than TBTHOG but still not damaged.

2 out of 4 received.
Just hope the box arrives intact on Friday. I can wait for SOTN.

Suspect mine will also come Friday - even though it still says Saturday. It departed the Amazon warehouse in Kent this morning at 6:50am

Well, I take it back. Royal Mail did deliver. At 8:30pm. Crikey.

However:

No obi band and the box had a f**king German classification sticker on the box which, after peeling off, has left a mark.

Grrr.

FFS.


Probably why it’s taken so long. Amazon have sourced some of their copies from Europe.

That would be great and I would certainly take you up on your kind offer. Many thanks.

I wonder though, as it’s come from Germany, whether it may well be the same as mine, i.e. no Obi.

OK. Once all that Amazon crap is now out of the way (apart from not receiving my SOTN 12" yet), onto the fun stuff:

DVD1
Nice to have the Academy gig on DVD, plus some of the other stuff we had seen previously (True Faith on TOTP/The Roxy, Les Enfants du Rock etc.).
As previously stated, shame that the daft edits and the visual effects of the Academy gig are still there, but I guess that, if the original footage isn't available, this is the best we can get. And I'm happy with that.
Glad the interviews were tagged onto the end too. Would've been a shame to lose these and I never liked them inserted akwardingly into the middle of the gig.

Really good to have the extra bit of Broken Promise from The Tube included (i.e. after the credits ended), although eventually the video feed ends and the audio continues on its own. I'm guessing audio and video must've been recorded separately.

The Channel One, BBC Northern Ireland footage is great. For years, I knew about this and I managed to get an audio-only copy of these two tracks plus the Sumner/Caron Keating interview a few years back. Then, a year or so, I got the video too.
So, I guess, this isn't 'new' to me, per se. However, this DVD copy is in great shape and has been separated from the interview (which played over the top of Ceremony in parts). Seeing the band up close and personal playing these two classic tracks is truly wonderful.

The '11PM' TV performance is really cool, if a little short. This was a revelation to me when it arrived on YouTube a few months back. I had literally no idea that the band ever performed live on Japanese TV. Seems JJ has had to splice with another version of (the BLT video, looks like).

My favourite bit on this disc though has to be the Japan footage. So good to see the band in such relaxed circumstances. Glad Stephen had the foresight to record this and I REALLY hope we get more of the same sort of thing for the Technique DVDs. There was that clip of the band in Ibiza shown on that Dave Haslam interview with Steve a few years back. Hopefully, Steve has much more that he can show us.
An amazing snapshot in time. Great to see Rob, btw.

Thoroughly enjoyed DVD1. Will get around to DVD2 later tonight hopefully.

Crikey! That's quite the journey. I'm guessing mine did something similar, but I've binned the packing labels now.

Shame there's no OBI.
Ah well! If anyone has a spare, or doesn't care for them and feels like being extremely generous, please drop me a PM.

It's quite strange isn't it? Why there are those poses, I don't know.
Also, considering the song is sung by Hooky, I don't think there's any shot of him actually singing it, is there?

Agreed on Gillian! Beautiful shots of her.

My sticker came off in one piece - I had dreaded the sticker ripping the cardboard lid.

It did leave a feint gummy outline that was visible under bright light. Rubbing the outline with my thumb made it less visible.