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Glad
Dancing Heart
The Go Betweens
Sweet Melodies
Save It For A Rainy Day
Fade
Brand New Me
Take Me To The Pilot
Two Lovers
Why Are You Calling
He’s Gone
The Last Time
The group aren’t splitting up as such - they still remain
the best of friends after 35 years recording together –
but they don’t feel like they want to go on forever and
wanted to go out with a bang.
Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs have known each other
since childhood and started the group in 1990 with
their classic cover of Neil Young’s ‘Only Love Can Break
Your Heart’. Sarah Cracknell joined for their third
single ’Nothing Can Stop Us’ and the Foxbase Alpha
album in 1991. Since then they have branched out into
films, books and curation, and became artists in
residence at the Southbank Centre. The group simply
feels it is now time to draw a line under new
recordings.
For International, the trio decided to ask friends,
heroes and contemporaries to collaborate with them.
That list included Confidence Man (who they
discovered were St Et superfans after they played
together at Kite Festival in 2022). ‘Brand New Me' feels
like a rebooted 1991 gem – think ‘Nothing Can Stop
Us’ meets ‘Groove Is In The Heart’ – and features
Sarah duetting with Confidence Man’s Janet Planet.
You’ll hear other collaborators on ‘Sweet Melodies’
(Erol Alkan), ‘Two Lovers’ (Vince Clarke), ‘The Go
Betweens’ (a duet with Nick Heyward), ‘Take Me To
The Pilot’ (Paul Hartnoll of Orbital) and ‘Dancing
Heart’ and ‘He’s Gone’, a brace co-written and
produced with Tim Powell of Xenomania.
