Religion, Revolution & Railways is a forthcoming archival 7CD box set featuring The Complete Recordings of The Dream Academy.The Dream Academy were a British band that featured singer/guitarist and songwriter Nick Laird-Clowes, multi-instrumentalist Kate St. John, and keyboardist/songwriter Gilbert Gabriel. In I985 the group achieved worldwide success following the release of their first single Life In A Northern Town which saw their subsequent debut album going into the American Top 20.

They released two further studio albums and had a close musical association with David Gilmour who co-produced two of those records. Hugh Padgham worked on the second album (Rememberance Days) although Lindsey Buckingham and Richard Dashut (who had been working on Fleetwood Macs Tango in the Night) helped to produce the cover of the Korgis Everybodys Got To Learn Sometime that featured on that album. The group disbanded in 1990.

The new box set features their three official albums and includes all official B-sides and remixes along with a few unreleased tracks. The bands Nick Laird-Clowes has been involved both with overseeing the remastering (by Tony Dixon of Masterpiece Masters) and in terms of searching the Warner Bros archives to find rarities and unreleased tracks. Nick has also written comprehensive sleeve notes for the set and selected photographic material for the booklet.

Religion, Revolution & Railways will be released on 23 February 2024 via Cherry Red Records.

Seven CD box set of the complete recordings of The Dream Academy. Featuring their three official albums and including all official B-sides and remixes and unreleased tracks. The band's Nick Laird-Clowes has searched the Warner Bros archives to find rarities and unreleased tracks and has been closely involved with remastering, creating all new artwork, and choosing photographic material as well as writing comprehensive liner notes for the set. The Dream Academy were a British band featuring singer/guitarist and songwriter Nick Laird- Clowes, multi-instrumentalist Kate St. John, and keyboardist/songwriter Gilbert Gabriel. In I985 the group achieved worldwide success following the release of their first single 'Life In A Northern Town' which saw their subsequent debut album going into the American Top 20. Their atmospheric music was the result of an unusual musical line-up of oboe and cor anglais, string synthesiser and acoustic guitar, while their three albums for Warner/Reprise brought them a large and devoted following. Their close musical association with David Gilmour saw him co-producing two of their three albums. Other co-productions included both Lyndsey Buckingham and Hugh Padgham. The cinematic nature of their recordings saw the band being asked to contribute music to films by both John Hughes (Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Trains, Planes and Automobiles) and Diane Keaton (Heaven). The group disbanded in 1990 and the intervening years have seen extensive sampling and cover versions of their debut single, (most notably by Dario G's 'Sunchyme' and Sugarland And Little Big Town's reworking of 'Life In A Northern Town') resulting in further international chart success and a Grammy nomination. All three members remain active in the music business with Nick Laird-Clowes's subsequent career as a film composer, Kate St John in demand as both musical director and string arranger while Gilbert Gabriel's doctorate sees his continued involvement with both film music and multi-media exploration.

Tracklist
CD 1 - The Dream Academy Remaster

01) Life in a Northern Town 4:19
02) The Edge of Forever 4:23
03) (Johnny) New Light 4:22
04) In Places on the Run 4:27
05) This World 5:08
06) Bound to Be 3:08
07) Moving On 5:14
08) The Love Parade 3:47
09) The Party 5:07
10) One Dream 2:32

CD 2 - Remembrance Days Remaster

01) Indian Summer 4:57
02) The Lesson of Love 4:40
03) Humdrum 4:18
04) Power to Believe 5:15
05) Hampstead Girl 3:42
06) Here 4:24
07) In the Hands of Love 4:49
08) Ballad in 4/4 3:59
09) Doubleminded 3:53
10) Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime 3:43
11) In Exile (for Rodrigo Rojas) 6:44

CD 3 - A Different Kind of Weather Remaster

01) Love 3:44
02) Mercy Killing 4:44
03) Lucy September 3:06
04) Gaby Says 5:04
05) Waterloo 5:04
06) Twelve-Eight Angel 4:19
07) St. Valentine's Day 2:45
08) It'll Never Happen Again 3:33
09) Forest Fire 4:15
10) Lowlands 3:47
11) Not for Second Prize 2:54

CD 4 - The River Ran on

01) The Love Parade (Remix) 3:56
02) Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want 3:07
03) Girl in a Million (for Edie Sedgewick) 3:47
04) In Places on the Run (Single Version) 3:42
05) In the Heart 3:10
06) The Chosen Few 4:29
07) Hampstead Girl (B/V Mix) 3:42
08) Indian Summer (Single Versio) 4:26
09) Sunrising 3:50
10) The Demonstration 4:23
11) The Last Day of the War (Pt. 1) 2:00
12) The Last Day of the War 4:50

CD 5 - Be-Sides

01) The Day It Rained Forever 2:52
02) Poised on the Edge Of Forever 3:35
03) Test Tape No.3 5:07
04) Bound to Be (Demo) 2:39
05) Things We Said Today 2:57
06) Doubleminded (Demo) 3:45
07) These Walls 4:38
08) The Party (Acoustic Version) 3:33
09) Living in a War 4:17
10) Immaculate Heartache 5:07
11) House of Heartbreak 8:16

CD 6 - Back-Tracked

01) Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental) 3:07
02) Love Parade (Instrumental) 3:32
03) Humdrum (Instrumental) 4:20
04) Power to Believe (Instrumental) 4:40
05) Hampstead Girl (Instumental) 3:41
06) Here (Instrumental) 4:23
07) Hands of Love (BV Mix) 4:53
08) Ballad in 4/4 (Instrumental) 3:59
09) Doubleminded (Instrumental) 3:53
10) Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (Instrumental) 3:44
11) In Exile (for Rodrigo Rojas) (Instrumental) 6:45
12) The Demonstration (Instrumental) 4:06
13) In Suspendium 1:37

CD 7 - Love Etc

01) Life in a Northern Town (Extended) 5:21
02) The Love Parade (12" Mix) 6:17
03) Indian Summer (Extended Version) 6:50
04) Angel of Mercy (12/8 Mix) 6:00
05) Mordechai Vanunu 5:40
06) Love (Love Is 7) 5:02
07) Love (Dreamstrumental) 5:09
08) Love (Dream House) 7:35
09) Love (Love Is 12) 6:54
10) Love (Whales in Love) 4:02
11) Love (Hare Krishna Mix) 7:02
12) Heaven (Pts. 1 & 2) 4:32




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