Welcome to THE THE’s Official Bootleg Series of recordings. The design is based on the bootlegs Matt collected in his late teens / early twenties.
Our bootlegs are presented as vinyl-look CDs with simple white labels, encased in our vintage-style, heavy card sleeves with hand-stamped numbering, de-bossed foil logo and our holographic stamp of authenticity, with description track-listing inserts included.
The releases are retrieved from tapes in our large, dusty archive – each containing either demos, live or rare recordings, rough mixes, interviews or promotional performances. Each volume of our miniaturised digital version is mastered at Studio Cinéola. Due to the age and nature of these recordings certain imperfections and distortions may be audible at times.
Volume 009 features an eclectic mixture of old recordings from our vaults: demos, rare remixes and playful versions never officially released. These are full versions of tracks – snippets of which were used in some of our Radio Cinéola broadcasts. If you listen carefully you can hear contributions from friends and collaborators including the late Angela McCluskey, Eric Schermerhorn, JG Thirlwell, Colin Lloyd Tucker, Lloyd Cole and Dorit Chrysler. These recordings have been cleaned up and mastered at Studio Cinéola.
TRACK LISTING
1 SLOW RIDER (demo)
2 DEEP DOWN TRUTH (demo)
3 PILLAR BOX RED (demo)
4 THE 51ST STATE
5 ARMAGEDDON DAYS (mezcal mix)
6 GLOBALEYES (drumless version)
7 SHRUNKEN MAN (lunar version)
8 DROWLER
9 HIDDEN
10 ME AND MY SHADOW
11 FLESH & BONES (Meltdown rehearsal)
