DUBSTAR: Lost & Foundland Volume 2

On this day in 1995 Food Records released Dubstar’s ‘Not So Manic Now’, the act’s breakthrough single. In those days you had a greater chance of a song landing high in the charts if you released your single in the few weeks after Christmas before the rest of the music industry returned from their Caribbean holidays. A song could sneak in while no-one was looking, and it worked.

Manic arrived at number nineteen in the UK Top Forty singles chart, our first of three visits to the Top Twenty. This was immensely exciting. We appeared on Top of the Pops, a crowning achievement for a new act. The record company threw us an infamous after-show party at Soho House in London too…quite a night. My hangover has just about worn off.

And so to celebrate this landmark anniversary, I’m releasing the second instalment of the DUBSTAR: Lost & Foundland trilogy, a collection of piano reimaginings of another thirteen songs I wrote for the act plus a piano version of Brick Supply’s ‘Not So Manic Now’, the song that was our first bona fide hit.

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I discussed back in October how DUBSTAR: Lost & Foundland began, a misunderstanding that led to a summer’s worth of piano playing and recording. As the days are so short, it feels fitting to release this collection on a Sunday at Christmastime, a cosy dose of memories for the season of nostalgia. I hope you enjoy it.

And a big thank you goes out to Roger Newbrook again for his fantastic photography.

Want more? You can find the story behind every Dubstar song ever recorded including dozens of unreleased songs right here at Dubstar.com

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