Spiritualized, who you might know as the band that Jason Pierce formed after the dissolution of Spacemen 3, have announced that they will be reissuing their classic, fondly remembered 97 album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space on November 6 through Sony.
The new pressing will come in two slightly different formats: (1) a “Collector’s Edition,” utilizing 12 mini-CDs, and (2) a “Special Edition,” shaped roughly like a standard CD. Regardless of your preference for CD size, both versions will come with two bonus discs full of demos and alternate mixes and all sorts of other stuff that should keep you comfortably adrift in space for hours.
If you find yourself getting caught up in all this fervor and feel the need for something more, something real, don’t fret: the band will be performing Ladies and Gentlemen in full on October 12 and 13 during the All Tomorrow’s Parties shindig at the London Royal Festival Hall. If you can't make that, a few more performances of the album have now been added for December.
Bonus Disc 1:
1. Ladies and Gentlemen (A Cappella)
2. Ladies and Gentlemen (Demo)
3. Ladies and Gentlemen (Strings)
4. Ladies and Gentlemen (Kate Telephone Call)
5. Ladies and Gentlemen (Moles Studio Mix 7)
6. Ladies and Gentlemen (Original Oratone Ideas)
7. Ladies and Gentlemen (A Cappella w/ Lead Vocal)
8. Come Together (Instrumental Demo)
9. Come Together (Demo In Lower Key)
10. I Think I'm in Love (Original Demo Idea)
11. I Think I'm in Love (Demo)
12. I Think I'm in Love (Drums/Wah)
13. I Think I'm in Love (A Cappella)
14. I Think I'm in Love (Vocal Demo Jan '96)
15. I Think I'm in Love (Gospel Choir Session)
16. All of My Thoughts (Demo)
17. All of My Thoughts (Strings)
18. Rocket Shaped Song
Bonus Disc 2:
1. Electricity (Demo)
2. Electricity (January '96)
3. Electricity (June '96)
4. Home of the Brave (Demo)
5. Home of the Brave (Panned Vocal)
6. Beautiful Happiness
7. Broken Heart (Demo)
8. Broken Heart (Strings)
9. Broken Heart (Vocal Harmony/Angel Corpus Christi)
10. Broken Heart (Early Vocal)
11. No God Only Religion (Demo)
12. No God Only Religion (Horns)
13. Cool Waves (Demo)
14. Cool Waves (String Session Mix)
15. Cop Shoot Cop (Demo)
16. Cop Shoot Cop (Dr. John 'The National Anthem')
17. Cop Shoot Cop (String Session Mix)
Dates:
10.12.09 - London, England - Royal Festival Hall
10.13.09 - London, England - Royal Festival Hall
12.14.09 - Manchester, England - Apollo
12.16.09 - London, England - Barbican
12.17.09 - London, England - Barbican
12.19.09 - Gateshead, England - Sage Centre
