Sisters (Remastered & Expanded) The Bluebells

• 1 Everybody's Somebody's Fool (Alternative Version) [Remastered] 02:30
• 2 Young At Heart (Remastered) 03:25
• 3 I'm Falling (Remastered) 05:09
• 4 Will She Always Be Waiting (Remastered) 04:17
• 5 Some Sweet Day (Remastered) 02:22
• 6 Cath (Longer Version) [Remastered] 03:43
• 7 H.O.L.L.A.N.D. (Remastered) 03:38
• 8 Red Guitars (Remastered) 03:15
• 9 Syracuse University (Remastered) 04:30
• 10 Learn To Love (Remastered) 03:34
• 11 The Patriot Game (Remastered) 04:08
• 12 South Atlantic Way (Full) [Remastered] 05:39
• 13 Aim In Life (Remastered) 03:04
• 14 Forevermore (7" Version) [Remastered] 02:57
• 15 Sugar Bridge (7" Version) [Remastered] 03:44
• 16 All I Am (Is Loving You) [12" Version] [Remastered] 04:35
• 17 The Ballad Of Joe Hill (Remastered) 02:20
• 18 Forever Yours, Forever Mine (Dub Version) [Remastered] 03:43
• 19 Cath (US Remix) [Remastered] 03:18
• 20 Forevermore (12" Version) [Remastered] 05:03
• 21 Everybody's Somebody's Fool (First Version) [Remastered] 03:42
• 22 Cath (12" Version) [Remastered] 04:39
• 23 All I Ever Said (Remastered) 02:29
• 24 Fall From Grace (Remastered) 02:11
• 25 Sugar Bridge (12" Version) [Remastered] 05:57
• 26 Happy Birthday (Turn Gold) [Remastered] 02:39
• 27 I'm Falling (US Edit) [Remastered] 04:08
• 28 Young At Heart (Extended Version) [Remastered] 05:28
• 29 Tender Mercy (Remastered) 04:02
• 30 Wishful Thinking (Will She Always Be Waiting) [Remastered] 03:56
• 31 Smalltown Martyr (Remastered) 03:08
• 32 All I Am (Is Loving You) [7" Version] [Remastered] 04:10
• 33 Everybody's Somebody's Fool (Original April '82 Version) [Remastered] 02:50
• 34 Happy Birthday (Turn Gold) [Alternate Version] [Remastered] 03:29
• 35 All I Am (Is Loving You) [Robert's Edit] [Remastered] 03:39
• 36 Everybody's Somebody's Fool (No Strings Version) [Remastered] 02:29
• 37 Young At Heart (Club Remix) [Remastered] 04:58
• Total Runtime 02:18:48

Info for Sisters (Remastered & Expanded)

Re-issued as the band originally wanted it released beginning with the Robin Millar produced version of ‘Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool’, a longer version of ‘Cath’ plus two Elvis Costello- produced tracks; ‘Some Sweet Day’ and ‘Aim In Life’.

The Bluebells are a Scottish indie new wave band who were first active between 1981 and 1986 and have since then reformed a number of times. The band first split up in the mid-1980s, but enjoyed an unexpected revival in 1993 when ‘Young At Heart’ was used in a Volkswagen television advertisement. Re-issued as a single, it was No. 1 for four weeks and led to the band reforming temporarily to perform the song on BBC Television's Top of the Pops.

The band have reformed again a number of times since 2008 and most recently released ‘In the 21st Century’, an album of new material in 2023.

"The Bluebells' sole full-length album (nearly all of their other releases were singles, which continued dribbling out for a number of years after the group split in 1985), Sisters is a slightly darker-toned and less infectious album than their spirited early singles would suggest. It includes some of those single sides ("Everybody's Somebody's Fool" and "Cath" are in remixed form, while the acoustic cover of Brendan Behan's "The Patriot Game" is the same), but the more recent tracks add synthesizers and a greater use of electric guitars to the largely acoustic early tracks. (The exception is "Young at Heart," a spirited bluegrass-tinged hoedown written by lead singer Robert Hodgens and his then-girlfriend Siobhan Fahey, whose band Bananarama had done a more pop-oriented version on 1983's Deep Sea Skiving.) Haunting ballads like "Will She Always Be Waiting" and "I'm Falling" show a more mature, thoughtful side to the group, while the Falklands-themed closer "South Atlantic Way" furthers the political shadings of some of the earlier tunes. The rocking "Syracuse University" and "Red Guitars" showcase a harder edge than anything the band had done previously. Every song is lyrically interesting and musically satisfying, and the whole is enough to make one wish the Bluebells had lasted long enough to properly record a follow-up." (Stewart Mason, AMG)

This new edition of Sisters has been remastered and produced in consultation with the band, using the best audio sources available, including non-album singles and B-sides, bonus tracks from the original cassette edition and new liner notes from Will Hodgkinson.

Kenneth McCluskey, lead vocals, harmonica
Neil Baldwin, bass (tracks 2, 6, 7, 10)
Robert Hodgens, vocals, guitar
Craig Gannon, guitar (tracks 1, 6, 7, 10)
David McCluskey, drums
Bobby Valentino, violin
Laurence Donegan, bass (tracks 2–5, 8, 9)
Russell Irvine, guitar (tracks 2–5, 8, 9)
Ray Russell, string arrangements

Digitally remastered

The Bluebells
enjoyed a whirlwind career spanning the early 1980’s with a recording output including three U.K. hit singles. “I’m Falling”, “Cath” and “Young at Heart” made with a procession of producers including Elvis Costello who became a mentor and teacher to the band. Guitarist and ex-fanzine publisher Robert Hodgens (aka Bobby Bluebell) wrote instantly memorable classics in collaboration with the two McCluskey Brothers who completed the Bluebells’ essential troika and Kenneth McCluskey sang them in a likably unaffected voice, making every track count

With the release of their debut album “Sisters” in 1984 on London Records ,the band toured widely in Europe and North America developing their live sound and signing to Seymour Stein’s Sire Records in the U.S.

Robert and the brothers parted company amicably in 1986 with Ken and David forming and releasing records as the McCluskey Brothers while Robert concentrated on song writing duties for various other artists including Texas and the late Sinead O’Connor as well as his own group The Poems.

In 1993 when “Young at Heart” hit the U.K. No 1 spot following its use as a T.V. advert for Volkswagon the chaps met up for some fun Top of the Pops appearances.

The Bluebells are delighted to be playing again having recently received two premier Scottish Music Business Awards including “The Tartan Clef Award for Song Writing .” at the star studded Nordoff –Robbins charity annual fund raiser at Glasgow Barrowlands.

Following the re-release of the Classic album repackaged “Sisters” album on the Last Night From Glasgow The Bluebells were encouraged by the label and fans to record new material which has manifested itself in the excellent new album “The Bluebells In The 21st Century” released in April 2023.

Bobby, Ken, and David are currently performing a variety of acoustic gigs as a three piece and as a full six piece line up augmented by Campbell Owens (Aztec Camera) on Bass, Douglas MacIntyre (Jazzateers) on Guitar and Mick Slaven (Bourgie Bourgie,Paul Quinn, Del Amitri) on lead Guitar.

“… skiffly immediacy, a squall of harmonica, the scrape of fiddle and embedded pop harmonies – it transpires that The Bluebells in the 21st Century will be operating much as they did in the 20th, stripping the years away with warm, melodious guitar and Glasgow soul.” (The Scotsman)

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