The Blue Ox Babes

[Bazza]

Yes, it really IS happening this time! The long-lost post-Dexys songs of Kevin Archer are finally on their way to a public release on Cherry Red Records - hopefully on 18th May 2009! The CD which will feature their unreleased ten-track album 'Apples & Oranges' as well as nine bonus tracks (including the unreleased 1985 song 'Where Do We Go From Here') will also be accompanied by a 16-page booklet full of info and images (Including a newly-redesigned front cover!):


The full track-listing will be:

1.It Could Have Been Love
2. Walking On The Line
3.Apples & Oranges (The International Hope Campaign)
4.Bedlam
5. East To West
6. She's So Strong
7. Gregory Right
8. There's No Deceiving You
9. Thought As Much
10. Ballad Of The Blue Ox Babes

Bonus tracks:
11. The Last Detail
12. Take Me To The River
13. Pray Lucky
14. Yes Let's
15. Four Golden Tongues Talk
16. What Does Anybody Ever Think About
17. Where Do We Go From Here
18. Thought As Much (Demo)
19. Russia In Winter


Featuring at various points on the CD are no less than NINE ex-Midnight Runners, in the shape of: Kevin Archer, Helen O'Hara, Steve "Brennan" Shaw, Steve Wynne, Big Jimmy Paterson, Geoff Blythe, Andy Leek, Vince Crane and Mick "Woody" Woodmansey! (...AND former Dexys producer, Pete Wingfield) so anybody who has been feeling starved of great music lately need look no further!

For those who haven't heard of The Blue Ox Babes before here is their debut single - www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKUb7KorZfs

[jorge]

Thanx, it's the first time that i hear from them, i know about the group but i didnt' t have the chance to hear them.
From my first impression, it's hard not to think of Dexy's Midnight Runners circa'82 (i know why !), it's funny to find Dexy's in here because it's one of a groups that i like from England (with Madness, Specials, The Beat, The Style Council, Housemartins, Big Audio Dynamite, etc... and of course The Reds )

[Bazza]

The album is available to pre-order now from amazon - www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0024F138W

Unfortunately I've heard that Kevin Archer won't be reforming The Blue Ox Babes to help promote the album :-(

[Bazza]

There's some info on The Blue Ox Babes Over at the following site - www.dexys.org/blueoxbabes.html

Also look out for a very revealing interview/article in the next Record Collector (it really lifts the lid on the fall-out between the two Kevins - and Archer's subsequent problems with paranoid schizophrenia) and also there will be a feature in the Hello/Goodbye section of Mojo to look forward to.