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The Bureau website has just been updated

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The support act for The Bureau's gig at the Borderline is whose line up includes Allan Crockford (The Prisoners, JTQ, Prime Movers & Solarflares).

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Here is the track listing for The Bureau CD.



Disc: 1
1. Only For Sheep
2. The First One
3. Sentimental Attachement
4. Got To Be Now
5. Looking For Excitement
6. Let Him Have It
7. Find A Way
8. The Bigger Prize
9. CarpetBaggers
10. Helpless
11. The Noose (Bonus Track)
12. Hitman (Bonus Track)
13. Sorry I Spoke (Bonus Track)
14. The Horse (Bonus Track)

Disc: 2 (Live At The Forum)
1. The Horse
2. The First One
3. The Noose
4. Got To Be Now
5. The Bigger Prize
6. Only For Sheep
7. Find A Way
8. Helpless
9. Sentimental Attachement
10. Looking For Excitement
11. Let Him Have It

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Disc: 2 (Live At The Forum)
1. The Horse

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What, same song as the Dexys one? The instrumental?

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Here is the latest Bureau newsletter, looks like WEA are messing the band about again.

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Hello,

The Bureau website has been updated with some details of the album, and
the band is gearing up for a long weekend of rehearsals in Birmingham
for the first launch gig at the Glee Club. We will have the great
privilege and luxury of Crispin Taylor's drumming for both gigs.

There are plans to document these labours with photographs and possibly
a video diary, so there should be more material for the website, aside
from scanned images of decaying snapshots like the roguish pic just
added to Pete's page. A "what's new" feature will also be added at some
stage.

At the time of writing, WEA is reissuing the album the week after the
launch gigs (no comment), and it is not known if there will be advance
copies available at the gigs. We look forward to seeing as many of you
as possible at these gigs, and as soon as we are told more about the
album's availability here and abroad, we'll let you know.

Thanks for your interest.


The Bureau

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I've just had a look on The Bureau website, I wonder if the album reissue has fallen through?


"On February 28th 2005, WEA will supposedly re-issue the long-lost album recorded in 1981 and never before released in the UK."

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For those who are interested here is a review of The Bureau's Birmingham gig taken from the Dexys msn group.


The band took to the stage Archie-less and that was the signal for 'The Horse'. My eyes welled-up as Spooner and Blythe blew their saxes into the mics. Together again after all those years. I grabbed my brother and we danced in our seats, playing our air-brass. I love the sound of a good brass section. 'The Horse' kicked as much butt as it ever did. Geoff Blythe has lost nothing. He is still a fabulous musician. His playing was stunning, expressive and soulful. They all had soul. Archie Brown breezed casually onto stage for 'The First One'. A massive welcoming cheer went up in the audience and Archie breathed fire once more. Then one of those special and amazing things happened. The reason why we all go to see live shows. The gig never let up till the end. It was as good as it could possibly have been. It wasn't perfect. There were a few false starts to 'Helpless' for example but who wants perfection? Perfection doesn't have soul. It was powerful, soulful, joyful... better than perfect.

The Bureau played the whole album plus 'The Noose' 'Sorry I Spoke' and 'Hitman'. 'Got To Be Now' 'Only For Sheep' 'Carpetbaggers' 'Find A Way' 'Sentimental Attachment' were all fabulously energetic and musical. I was reminded tonight how musical The Bureau were. Geoff Blythe played an elongated sax solo as an intro to 'Got To Be Now' similar in shape and structure to the one on that album. You know the one I mean, sure you do. It was jaw-droppingly good. Talbot and Taylor also had their solos during the set and space was made for Rob Jones to let rip on a couple of occasions. It was only fitting. Jones' playing was one of The Bureau's trademarks. His contribution may have been undervalued in the past but not tonight. Archie gave credit to all of the players around him. The Bureau were righting wrongs last night and it is right that Rob Jones is there.

I save the best for last. The main set finished with 'Let Him Have It'. Archie introduced the song with some of the details of its writing. He reminded us that Derek Bentley's sister had fought all her life to have her brother's name cleared. She died a few months before the pardon eventually came through. And with that reminder of how shitty our justice system can be, The Bureau played 'Let Him Have It'. Why this song wasn't a hit I will ever know. It simply beggars belief but when we have those CDs in our mits some justice will have been done.

They encored with 'The Noose' and 'Only For Sheep'. They apologised for the repeats. They are a young band of only one album and don't have many songs. It's probably unlikely but wouldn't it be realy cool if The Bureau started working again on those songs they began to write for the second album? In 1981, Pete Williams told me that the second Bureau album would be a classic. You still up for it, Pete?


eddie-metal

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