Demon Music will release Renaissance, an 11-disc M People career-spanning box set in February that features albums, remixes, rarities and two DVDs. An exclusive limited edition with a signed print is also available.

M People won two BRIT awards and a Mercury Prize and released four studio albums, the last being Fresco in 1998. All of them are included, newly remastered, in this new box set and each comes with a bonus disc of remixes. The ninth CD in the package is an exclusive bonus disc of remixes by Frankie knuckles and David Morales.

The first of two DVDs features all the band’s promo videos (plus new interviews with members Paul Heard, Mike Pickering and Shovell) while the second features live performances.

This box set comes with a 48-page colour booklet and the exclusive edition comes with a print of a ‘Search For The Hero’ lyric sheet signed by Heard, Pickering, and Shovell (no Heather!). These are limited to 500 units.

Renaissance will be released on 14 February 2020. 

The signed edition is exclusive to Amazon UK.

Visage - The Anvil 

Label: Rubellan 

Release date: Early 2020 

Everything has been remastered from beautiful new transfers of the original master tapes. Note that some other associated mixes may be on the Dance Mix CD. USA Single Remix of We Move is a previously unreleased mix that was set for the U.S. market to coincide with the Dance Mix EP that was the first place to find the extended mix of Fade To Grey. 

Tracklist:

1. The Damned Don’t Cry
2. Anvil (Night Club School)
3. Move Up
4. Night Train
5. The Horseman
6. Look What They’ve Done
7. Again We Love
8. Wild Life
9. Whispers

Bonus Tracks: 

10. Motivation
11. I’m Still Searching
12. We Move (USA Single Remix - previously unreleased)
13. The Damned Don’t Cry (Dance Mix) 
14. Night Train (Dance Mix) 
15. The Anvil (Dance Mix) 
16. Pleasure Boys (Dance Mix)

Pet Shop Boys are pleased to announce new tour dates for Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live in Europe in May and June 2020. Beginning on Friday, May 1st at Berlin’s Mercedes Benz Arena, the tour will see Pet Shop Boys perform at arenas across the continent and UK. 

Erasure - Chorus (3 CD) 

On February 14th 2020 BMG will release the latest in their series of remastered and expanded Erasure CD reissues with a 3-CD edition of ‘Chorus’ featuring a remastered version of the original album on one disc; a selection of new and classic remixes, b-sides and bonus tracks on disc two; and a live version of the ‘Chorus’ album, recorded on Erasure’s Phantasmagorical Entertainment Tour, on the final disc.

The remastered and expanded edition of ‘Chorus’ comes in deluxe hardback book packaging with extensive sleeve notes by Mat Smith, and is available to pre-order now using the link below. The first 2000 pre-order customers will also receive a bonus pack of four ‘Chorus’ postcards.

Pre-order Chorus here!