New Wave Complex - Heaven 17

24th. & 25th. August 8pm. 26Th August TBC at Flux, The Edinburgh New Music Festival Jaffa Cake, 28 Kings Stables Road, Edinburgh Tickets available at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe box office on 0131 226 5138, or in person from the venue after 6pm.

Thanks Ian Craig Marsh

30/7/97

From Al Crawford

Caroline in the US are to release the B.E.F. album Music For Listening To (from what I've heard, with the tracks from Music For Stowaways added) on CD next month.

22/7/97

News from the Management

Heaven 17 are looking for a lisencee to release the 'Bigger Than America' album in the US.

Stephen Budd Management

2/6/97

What is Martyn up to? Click the picture.

From Martyn - 11/6/97

Hi Ashley

An exclusive!....We've just finished an electronic version of T Rex's '20th Century Boy' which we're trying out at the Lawyer's Ball as a second encore

Regards

Martyn Ware pp H17

Re-Releases

The first 2 album have recently been re-released in America - with extra tracks.

Release dates:

Penthouse and Pavement - Apr 29, 1997 and has "I'm Your Money" (12" version) and Play To Win (12" or Disco Mix)
Luxury Gap - May 6, 1997 and has "Temptation" (Special dance mix - ie, original 12"), "Let Me Go" (12" Mix, original) and "Crushed By The Wheels" (Dance version, original 12")

News from Michael Denton and the Sheffield Wednesday Kop Band

SWFC Kop Band are making a single with Martyn Ware which is due to be mixed when the tour ends.

Sheffield Wednesday Kop Band Official Homepage:- *************************************************** http://members.wbs.net/homepages/k/o/p/kopband.html

Proposed UK Release dates!

Single 'We Blame Love' April 14th or 21st

Album March 10th or 17th

News from Martin and Nicole

17/2/97 - new single out in Germany - We Blame Love

e-lectric (German Synthie-Pop Magazine)

News from Martyn Ware
9th January 1997

"Our new single will be 'We Blame Love' - a new version jointly produced by ourselves and Gregorio (who did 2 versions of 'Designing Heaven') - release dates TBC."

"We are trying to get a release for the album in USA."

"We start writing the new album next Monday."

"We're all feeling very optimistic and happy at the moment ."

News

There is a new single, Designed Heaven (30/8/96), and a new album, Bigger Than America (20/9/96).

Why not review them for me - being here in Australia I'm not likely to hear it for quite a while

Information from a couple of sources (Thanks The Associate and Si)

From Teletext.

Heaven 17 are back with a new single, Designing Heaven, remixed by synth veteran Giorgio Moroder.

But, claims singer Glenn Gregory, Moroder had no idea what a remix was. Says Glenn:" He said he'd be interested in working with us so we sent him some tapes in Los Angeles. He came back and said "What do You want me to do? What's a remix?" He didn't know what it was. The single came back to us and it was exactly the same as our mix!"

Information courtesy of Christoph Bechtel

Interviewed Heaven 17 on the weekend of the 21st September 1996 for Viva TV.

"H17 sound almost exactly like they did on their first album, they used five analog synths on Bigger than America, three of them mono-fi. The song structures, harmonies and melodies are also very kin to their old material, it's not a remake, though, the songs sound very fresh. Designing Heaven is a mid-tempo song with a syncopated drumbeat, the video was shot in a huge Japanese swimming facility, and Glen collapsed because of the heat in there. The guys wear suits in the video, and Martyn has gained a substantial amount of kgs since the 80s."