“The Dave Clark Five were the biggest challenge to The Beatles.” - John Lennon

Released on the 13th October 2008 on the Universal label

One hundred million selling band The Dave Clark 5 are back and on the 13th October released a new album called ‘The Hits’. This career spanning release including their No.1 hits ‘Glad All Over’ and ‘Bits and Pieces’ and classic tracks like ‘Do You Love Me’, Don’t Let Me Down’, ‘Can’t You See That You’re Mine’.

...were the first English group to tour the United States, spearheading the British Invasion. During their first two years in the US they scored no less than fifteen consecutive Top Twenty hits, more than anyone except The Beatles. They took the world by storm and helped change the rock scene, blasting hit after hit over the world’s radio airwaves. Dave produced all The DC5’s records and co-wrote most of them, and he also managed the group at the same time. In the UK, The Dave Clark Five achieved the seemingly impossible feat of a semi-professional outfit, without an agent or manager, logging up two consecutive No.1 hit records. The first was “Glad All Over” ringing up cash sales in excess of two-and-a-half million records, followed by “Bits and Pieces” which repeated the success.

In 2008, Academy award winning actor Tom Hanks inducted The Dave Clark Five into The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and Paul Williams, Editor of the UK’s ‘Music Week’, wrote: “Dave Clark was a music revolutionary before the revolution.”

Tracklisting: Do You Love Me • Glad All Over • Bits And Pieces • Can’t You See That She’s Mine • Everybody Knows (I Still Love You) • Don’t Let Me Down • Any Way You Want It • Wild Weekend • Catch Us If You Can • Because • I Like It Like That • Reelin’ and Rockin’ • Over And Over • Come Home • You Got What It Takes • Try Too Hard • Everybody Knows • I’ll Be Yours My Love • Nineteen Days • Look Before You Leap • Til The Right One Comes Along • All Night Long • Good Old Rock n’ Roll (Medley) • Sha-Na-Na Hey Hey • Here Comes Summer • Put A Little Love In Your Heart • Everybody Get Together • Universal Love

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Former Dexys Midnight Runners members team up with former Style Council founder to resurrect The Bureau.

Geoff Blythe (tenor and soprano sax)

Archie Brown (lead vocals, guitar, sax)

Mick Talbot (keyboards, vocals)

Crispin Taylor (drums, percussion, guitar)

Paul Taylor (trombone)

Pete Williams (bass, ukulele, clarinet, guitar, vocals)

Former Dexys Midnight Runners members and Mick Talbot (formerly one half of The Style Council), have reunited the legendary British funk Northern soul band “The Bureau”.  The band will release a brand new album entitled “…And Another Thing” from 6th October.  The album is available from www.bureau.org.uk

After an explosive rupture with Dexys Midnight Runners, five visionary men created a fresh start, a powerful new band called The Bureau that immediately recruited two key players from The Upset and then enlisted a jazz trombonist. Blythe, Spooner, Stoker, Williams and Talbot, plus Brown, Jones and Taylor, rattled the rafters of a derelict night club with a battery of new songs and went howling through Holland in February 1981. By August they were touring the US with The Pretenders.

Dealings with WEA were not smooth, and The Bureau''s first album was easy to find in Australia and North America but unavailable in Britain. After a couple of other tours, financial treachery forced the band to stand down. Late in 2002, Ian Jennings saw Archie Brown perform with his band, The Young Bucks. Being a great fan of The Bureau, he quizzed him about it over too much beer. Tracking down Taylor on the web, he got another thumbs-up, and began a trail of detection that led to a reunion in March 2003 at The Magnesia Bank in North Shields. Only Stoker, busy producing film music in California, was absent.

In March 2005, WEA re-issued the long-lost album. There were two ecstatic launch gigs, at the Glee Club in Birmingham and Borderline in London. Crispin Taylor ably replaced Stoker on drums. Nostalgia is one thing, but something else was stirred up by this re-creation. Defying geography, let alone history, The Bureau started to work on new songs, with Geoff Blythe flying from New York, and music and musicians flitting between London, Birmingham, Penzance and Newcastle.

In 2008 a brand new Bureau album was born, wryly dubbed "...And Another Thing". The old fire is still there, now coloured and boosted with all the travails and travels of the intervening quarter of a century.

PICTURE RIGHT: The Bureau: Original Line-up, 1981 (from left to right – Geoff Blythe, Mick Talbot,Robert Jones, Steve Spooner, Pete Williams, Paul Taylor, Archie Brown, and Stoker Growcott).

THE BUREAU ARE: Geoff Blythe (tenor sax) was a founding member of Dexy''s Midnight Runners. In 1984, he became a member of the TKO Horns, touring and recording "Punch the Clock" with Elvis Costello. Other TKO recording sessions included Difford & Tilbrook, The Fixx, Nick Lowe and many others. After a stint with London-based EMI recording band The Neighborhood, Geoff moved to New York, where for the past 18 years he has been a member of the celtic rock band Black 47, often referred to as New York City''s house band. Other credits have included music for TV and film, Off-Broadway and classical compositions, and musical appearances in two major motion pictures, "The Saint of Fort Washington" and "Looking for an Echo".

Paul Taylor (trombone) has been gigging, touring and recording with jazz, African, Latin and other bands for decades, especially with Three Mustaphas Three, The Pogues, Roland Perrin''s Blue Planet Orchestra, and Chris McGregor''s Brotherhood of Breath with Archie Shepp. After creating a pioneering trombone trio, The Blowpipes, his latest project is trombone poetry: solo performances of improvised music and original poetry. He is also on the road with Roberto Pla''s Latin Ensemble, Manteca, and Snowboy & The Latin Section.

Archie Brown (vocals) has been recording and playing with The Young Bucks since 1985, mainly in the North East. He also has an alter ego, producing TV music for BBC2 and CBeebies, notably Something Special and Barnaby Bear.

PICTURE LEFT: ‘The Bureau 2008’ (from left to right) - Archie Brown (vocal), Geoff Blythe (saxophone), Crispin Taylor (drums), Mick Talbot (keyboards). Paul Taylor (trombone), Pete Williams (bass)

Mick Talbot (keyboards) was in The Style Council with Paul Weller from 1983-89. In the first half of the 90''s he featured with The Young Disciples and Galliano. Since then a variety of live and recorded work has ensued for various artists, including dipping in and out of the Hammond organ post for Jools Holland''s Band, with television, stage and studio appearances over the past 10 years. Currently he is playing with Candi Staton.

Pete Williams (bass) formed and fronted These Tender Virtues through 1984-89. He has since worked with excluded pupils and young offenders and written scores for animators and filmmakers, and been musical director for various theatre and dance productions. He toured the ICA-commissioned Teratoma Show and in 2003 he was invited to record a new single and perform as co-vocalist on the acclaimed Dexys "To Stop the Burning" tour. Pete regularly performs solo and with his band and is often seen as special guest at Birmingham''s Candybox Burlesque.

Crispin "The Pump" Taylor''s deluxe drumming has propelled various bands. Credits include: Galliano, Urban Species, Definition Of Sound, Carleen Anderson, Mather, Rueben Wilson, Charles Earland, Leon Ware, Dexys 2003 reunion tour, Zero 7, Marva Whitney, Marlena Shaw, The Funk Brothers, and, currently, Candi Staton.

When the music biz gave up on The Bureau, Steve Spooner (alto sax) gave up on the music biz, and had to be traced by small ads in newspapers. Somewhere in Cornwall, he dusted off his sax to gear up for the gigs in 2005, and contributed to some of the new recordings.

Robert Jones (guitar) has been working in the film industry since leaving The Bureau. He recently spent four years running the UK Film Council''s Premiere Fund and went on to form Material Entertainment, a production and distribution company. He managed to spare the time to play on the reunion gigs and on part of the new album.

Stoker''s (drums) work schedule, and the fact that he lives and works in California, unfortunately meant that a 100% reunion, though tantalizingly close, was not to be. He sends his blessings.

Scots rock legends, Simple Minds have announced this morning that they are to play an exclusive, special one-off concert at Glasgow’s ABC1 venue in early December with all proceeds being donated to Radio Clyde’s Cash for Kids charity. The concert will take place at the 1250 capacity venue on Sauchiehall Street on the night of Sunday 7 December with tickets priced at £35. All profits will go to the charity which launched its Christmas Appeal yesterday and raised £1.6 Million last year to help under privileged children throughout Scotland.

Tickets to the general public are now on sale.

Simple Minds with founding members Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill along with Mel Gaynor have worldwide popularity and secured a string of successful hit singles including the massive global number one, “Don’t You (Forget About Me”).The band recently played the 90th Birthday Party tribute to Nelson Mandela on 27th June in London’s Hyde Park. The Minds are about to tour to celebrate their 30th Anniversary and will take in a number of major UK arenas towards the end of 2008 including Glasgow’s SECC on 4th December. During these gigs the band will perform tracks from their landmark 1982 album - New Gold Dream‚ and will also perform classic songs from their other albums.

Radio Clyde’s Billy Sloan who’s also good friend of Jim Kerr will be broadcasting live from the Cash for Kids gig at the ABC1 and Jim will be hosting two Christmas shows on Clyde 1 and Clyde 2 and playing a lot of his favourite artists. More details on the shows will be announced. Simple Minds frontman, Jim Kerr said, “As a benefit concert the ABC show presents us with the opportunity to work with Radio Clyde on their annual’s Cash for Kids campaign. Within that we would like to encourage and congratulate them and their listeners for their continued efforts that over so many years have raised so much for local children’s charities.

Radio Clyde’s Programme Director, Paul Saunders said, “We’re absolutely thrilled that an iconic band like Simple Minds who have sold millions of records throughout the world have made this generous offer of support for Radio Clyde’s Cash for Kids. It’s a brilliant gesture from the band. It promises to be a night that none of us will forget and will surely help thousands of disadvantaged children in the West of Scotland have a better Christmas”.

For more information about the Cash for Kids benefit concert, please contact Richard Muir, Regional Marketing Director: 0141 565 2298 or richard.muir@radioclyde.com