DREAM ACADEMY

• Seven CD box set of the complete recordings of The Dream Academy.

• Featuring their three official albums and including all official B-sides and remixes and unreleased tracks.

The band’s Nick Laird-Clowes has searched the Warner Bros archives to find rarities and unreleased tracks and has been closely involved with remastering, creating all new artwork, and choosing photographic material as well as writing comprehensive liner notes for the set.

The Dream Academy were a British band featuring singer/guitarist and songwriter Nick Laird- Clowes, multi-instrumentalist Kate St. John, and keyboardist/songwriter Gilbert Gabriel.

In I985 the group achieved worldwide success following the release of their first single ‘Life In A Northern Town’ which saw their subsequent debut album going into the American Top 20.

Their atmospheric music was the result of an unusual musical line-up of oboe and cor anglais, string synthesiser and acoustic guitar, while their three albums for Warner/Reprise brought them a large and devoted following.

Their close musical association with David Gilmour saw him co-producing two of their three albums. Other co-productions included both Lyndsey Buckingham and Hugh Padgham.

The cinematic nature of their recordings saw the band being asked to contribute music to films by both John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Trains, Planes and Automobiles) and Diane Keaton (Heaven).
The group disbanded in 1990 and the intervening years have seen extensive sampling and cover versions of their debut single, (most notably by Dario G’s ‘Sunchyme’ and Sugarland And Little Big Town’s reworking of ‘Life In A Northern Town’) resulting in further international chart success and a Grammy nomination.

All three members remain active in the music business with Nick Laird-Clowes’s subsequent career as a film composer, Kate St John in demand as both musical director and string arranger while Gilbert Gabriel’s doctorate sees his continued involvement with both film music and multi-media exploration.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
The Dream Academy
1 Life In a Northern Town
2 The Edge of Forever
3 (Johnny) New Light
4 In Places on The Run
5 This World
6 Bound To Be
7 Moving On
8 The Love Parade
9 The Party
10 One Dream

DISC TWO
Remembrance Days
1 Indian Summer
2 The Lesson of Love
3 Humdrum
4 Power To Believe
5 Hampstead Girl
6 Here
7 In The Hands of Love
8 Ballad In 4/4
9 Doubleminded
10 Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime
11 In Exile (For Rodrigo Rojas)

DISC THREE
A Different Kind of Weather
1 Love
2 Mercy Killing
3 Lucy September
4 Gaby Says
5 Waterloo
6 Twelve-Eight Angel
7 St. Valentine’s Day
8 It’ll Never Happen Again
9 Forest Fire
10 Lowlands
11 Not For Second Prize

DISC FOUR
1 The Love Parade (Remix) – US Single
2 Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want – Single
3 Girl In a Million (For Edie Sedgwick) – B-Side
4 In Places on The Run – Edit
5 In The Heart – Japanese Single
6 The Chosen Few
7 Indian Summer – Single Version
8 Hampstead Girl – B/V Mix
9 Sunrising
10 The Demonstration – B-Side
11 The Last Day of The War (Pt 1) – Unreleased
12 The Last Day of The War

DISC FIVE
1 The Day It Rained Forever – Unreleased
2 Poised On the Edge of Forever
– B-Side
3 Test Tape No.3 – B-Side
4 Bound To Be – Demo
5 Things We Said Today – B-Side
6 Doubleminded – Demo – Unreleased
7 These Walls – Unreleased
8 The Party – Acoustic Version 9 Living In a War
10 Immaculate Heartache – B- Side
11 House Of Heartbreak – Unreleased

DISC SIX1 Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want – Instrumental
2 The Love Parade – Instrumental
3 Humdrum – Instrumental – Unreleased
4 Power To Believe – Instrumental
5 Hampstead Girl – Instrumental – Unreleased 6 Here – Instrumental – Unreleased
7 In The Hands of Love – B/V Mix – Unreleased
8 Ballad in 4/4 – Instrumental – Unreleased
9 Doubleminded – Instrumental – Unreleased
10 Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime – Instrumental – Unreleased
11 In Exile (for Rodrigo Rojas) – Instrumental – Unreleased
12 The Demonstration – Instrumental – Unreleased
13 In Suspendium – B-Side

DISC SEVEN
1 Life In a Northern Town – Extended
2 The Love Parade – 12 Mix
3 Indian Summer – Extended Version
4 Angel Of Mercy – 12/8 Mix
5 Mordechai Vanunu – B-Side
6 Love (Is Seven) – B-Side
7 Love – Dreamstrumental
8 Love – Dream House
9 Love – Love Is 12
10 Love – Whales in Love
11 Love – Hare Krishna Mix
12 Heaven – Pts 1 /2 – Unreleased