Adverts : Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts

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  CD

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  Incl. B-sides & live Tracks as bonus material

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  What you have here is not only a reissue of one of the greatest punk debuts of all time, but everything the Adverts ever recorded before setting of to work on their second album. Along with all 13 tracks recorded for 1978’s Crossing the Red Sea (including a version of “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes” originally intended for their US release and “New Day Dawning”, which was held back for a single), this deluxe double LP also includes the band’s first three singles, along with six tracks taken from a never-before-heard recording of a gig the Adverts played at the Roundhouse in London in early 1978 (headlining over Sham 69), with brand new drummer, John Towe (from Generation X). A tape of this recording was just recently discovered sitting in a box in John’s house, so this is the first time it has ever been heard by the public! Also featuring printed inners with lyric sheet and comments by T.V. Smith and author Dave Thompson! Each page of the gatefold sleeve portraits a member of the band.

  1) One Chord Wonders
  2) Bored Teenagers
  3) New Church
  4) On The Roof
  5) Newboys
  6) Gary Glimore’s Eyes
  7) Bombsite Boy
  8) No Time To Be 21
  9) Safety in Numbers
  10) New Day Dawning
  11) Drowning Men
  12) On Wheels
  13) Great British Mistake
  14) One Chord Wonders
  15) Quickstep
  16) Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
  17) Bored Teenagers
  18) Safety in Numbers
  19) We Who Wait
  20) On Wheels (live)
  21) Newboys (live)
  22) New Church (live)
  23) Gary Gilmore’s Eyes (live)
  24) Drowning Men (live)
  25) No Time To Be 21 (live)