News: Therapy? – Troublegum And Infernal Love 20th Anniversary Releases

To coincide with the re-issues of Trouble Gum and Infernal Love Therapy are set for a tour in April including a date at the Mo’Club in Southampton.

In March UMC/Mercury will release Therapy?’s 1994 tour de force, Troublegum as a superb 3 CD Deluxe Edition to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the album’s original release. It will be released alongside a deluxe edition reissue of the following year’s Infernal Love. All of this will coincide with a short run of UK shows by Therapy?, also in celebration of Troublegum’s 20th anniversary.

The set on each night will feature Troublegum in its entirety plus a host of other musical treats from around the same era of their recording career, and will include rarely heard B sides, the ShortSharpShock, Face the Strange, and Opal Mantra EPs. The 20th Anniversary albums are released on the 31st and the track-listings are as follows:

Infernal Love
Disc 1
01. Epilepsy
02. Stories
03. A Moment Of Clarity
04. Jude The Obscene
05. Bowels Of Love
06. Misery
07. Bad Mother
08. Me Vs You
09. Loose
10. Diane
11. 30 Seconds

Disc 2
01. Misery (Acoustic Version) (B-Side Diane)
02. Die Laughing (Acoustic Version) (B-Side Diane)
03. Screamager (Acoustic Version) (B-Side Diane)
04. Jude The Obscene (Acoustic Version) (B-Side Diane)
05. Loose (Acoustic Version) (B-Side Diane)
06. 30 Seconds (Acoustic Version) (B-Side Diane)
07. Our Love Must Die (B-Side Loose)
08. Nice Guys (B-Side Loose)
09. Loose (Photek Remix) (B-Side Loose)
10. Die Laughing (Live) (B-Side Loose)
11. Nowhere (Live) (B-Side Loose)
12. Unbeliever (Live) (B-Side Loose)
13. Knives (Live) (B-Side Misery)
14. Stories (Live) (B-Side Misery)
15. Innocent X (Remix) (Volume Single)
16. Disgracelands (Acoustic) (B-Side Bad Mother)
17. Diane (Acoustic) (B-Side Bad Mother)
18. Opal Mantra (Acoustic) (B-Side Bad Mother)

Trouble Gum
DISC 1
01 Knives 1:55
02 Screamager 2:41
03 Hellbelly 3:22
04 Stop It You’re Killing Me 3:50
05 Nowhere 2:26
06 Die Laughing 2:47
07 Unbeliever 3:28
08 Trigger Inside 3:56
09 Lunacy Booth 4:00
10 Isolation 3:17
11 Turn 3:50
12 Femtex 3:14
13 Unrequited 3:02
14 Brainsaw (Incl. Hidden Track “You Are My Sunshine”) 4:05

DISC 2
01 Pantopon Rose 2:17
02 Breaking The Law 3:27
03 C C Rider 2:30
04 Nowhere (Sabres Of Paradise Mix) 7:46
05 Nowhere (Therapeutic Distortion Mix) 5:50
06 Lunacy Booth (String Version) 4:58
07 Isolation (Consolidated Mix) 4:31
08 Isolation (Consolidated Synth Mix) 4:41
09 Stop It You’re Killing Me (Live At The Town & Country, Leeds/ 1994) 3:40
10 Trigger Inside (Live At The Town & Country, Leeds/ 1994) 4:05
11 Evil Elvis (The Lost Demo) 2:24
12 Die Laughing (David Holmes Mix 1) 6:00
13 Die Laughing (David Holmes Mix 2) 6:00
14 Nice ‘N’ Sleazy 2:51
15 Reuters 4:06
16 Tatty Seaside Town 2:35

DISC 3
01 Trigger Inside (Psycho Amigo Instrumental) 5:08
02 Trigger Inside (Psycho Amigo Mix) 5:08
03 Knives (Kiddie Version) 1:56
04 Auto Surgery 2:19
05 Totally Random Man 2:21
06 Accelerator 2:16
07 Speedball 2:31
08 Bloody Blues 1:12
09 Neck Freak (New Version) 4:57
10 Opal Mantra 2:27
11 Opal Mantra (Live At The Forum, London/ 1993) 2:22
12 Innocent X (Live At Columbus Uni, New York/ 1993) 3:36
13 Potato Junkie (Live At CBGB’s, New York/ 1993) 3:46
14 Nausea (Live At CBGB’s, New York/ 1993) 3:29
15 Totally Random Man (Demo Version) 2:36
16 Turn (Demo Version) 3:15
17 Knives (Demo Version) 2:03
18 Unbeliever (Demo Version)

Tour Dates
02/04 Bristol, Trinity
03/04 Manchester Academy 2
04/04 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
05/04 Nottingham Rock City
07/04 Glasgow, The Classic Grand
08/04 Norwich Waterfront
09/04 London Scala
11/04 Southampton, The Moí Club

The support on the tour will be hotly-tipped British rockers, Lonely The Brave.

The tightly wound punk-metal of Troublegum propelled Therapy? into the UK Top 5, sold 750,000 copies worldwide and spawned no less than five Top 40 singles (“Turn”, “Nowhere”, “Die Laughing”, “Trigger Inside” and “Screamager”, the lead cut from the 1993’s Shortsharpshock EP), landing the band a Mercury Music Prize nomination in the process.

The black-hearted melancholia of 1995’s Infernal Love was a radical departure for the trio. Bound together by Belfast-born DJ David Holmes’ cinematic soundscapes, the album was a brooding, twisted, heroically unhinged affair.

More recently, Therapy? Have enjoyed success with their 2012 album A Brief Crack of Light, and they have spent the last eighteen months touring mainland Europe, UK, Ireland and beyond. Not content to sit on their laurels they are currently working on a new studio album due for release in late 2014.

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