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Showbiz Reviewed
Showbiz
Release date April 1994
Record label A&M
Rerelease date March 2008
Record label Cherry Red
Tracklisting (click on a song title for lyrics)
- Somebody Snatched My Action
- ESP
- Waving and Drowning
- Sticks and Stones
- The Mystery Deepens
- Slip Away
- One Giant Love
- I Reek of Chic
- Not Necessarily Evil
- You Lead Me
- Tourniquet
- Neurotica
2008 reissue extra tracks
13. 1 W.G.S.
14. My Need To Hurry
15. Ski Bum
16. Down the Plug
17. Here Come the Old Flames
18. Lighthouse Keeper
19. Let You Down
20. Take the Time and Read My Mind
21. Wanting Isn't Getting
22. London Nearly Killed Me
Credits
Carl Puttnam (vocals)
Mike Dunphy (guitar & keyboards)
William Potter (bass guitar)
Steve Goodwin (drums & percussion)
Al Clay (producer)
Mick Dale (bass on tracks 19-21)
Details
The cover artwork featured a nail-covered box, the lid open to reveal a neon U with udders. This box motif was repeated elsewhere on the artwork - with a C and D on the back cover. Inside the box feature with different contents, firstly a framed photo of the band and three other times with contents that referred to the band's previous albums: money (When In Rome), the space baby doll (Leggy Mambo), belts and an elvis buckle (Elvis Belt) and some mannequin hands (Asquarius). The Showbix box fashioned by Leonike Kormelink, Richard Wise and Big Egg Design. Design by Jeremy Pearce and Simon Carrington.
Recorded at Funnyfarm Studios, Scotland and Konk, London. Mixed at Church Studios, London. Mastered at A&M Mastering Studios, LA by Arnie Acosta
The 2008 reissue includes the best of B-sides from the period (Tracks 13-16) and unreleased post-Showbiz demos.