Kscope have announced the release of ‘Closed For Business’, a Limited Edition 25 disc Box Set that is the Ultimate Mansun Collection.
“Closed For Business finally reveals the full scope of Mansun’s tumultuous career. It brings together their original albums, the dozens of overlooked gems featured on their EPs, unissued demos and studio out-takes, BBC radio sessions, and full-length concert recordings. Paul Draper has also opened his archives to provide the raw material for the set’s unmatched collection of Mansun memorabilia, notes, lyrics and previously unheard recordings. This box set finally does full justice to the vision of a band whose almost reckless disregard for the rules of the game reaped magnificent rewards.
- All 4 original albums remastered
- Single edits, EP tracks and b-sides CDs remastered
- Ten Live discs featuring concert, festival and radio broadcasts including Glastonbury, Reading Festival, BBC broadcasts and live shows from Australia & Norway
- Radio session, Demos, Rarities & Outtakes discs
- DVD – Featuring the first ever official live film, from Brixton Academy + all BBC performances from Top of the Pops and Later… with Jools Holland, plus the “Nobody Cares When You’re Gone” documentary
- 160 page hard back book written by renowned music journalist Peter Doggett featuring newly discovered photos from fans and photographers around the world, tour history section, historical and newly commissioned interviews, full discography
- 112 page book documenting the official fanzines Smelling the Roses, Take it Easy and Cult of Positivity
- 48 page studio book cataloguing newly discovered archival ephemera
- 5 x 12″ art prints
- 4 x postcards
- Handwritten “Closed for Business” lyric sheet signed by Paul Draper”
‘Closed For Business’ will be released on the 27th November 2020. This strictly Limited Edition can be pre-ordered now at an EarlyBird Price from the Official Mansun Store HERE .
The 25 discs are as follows:
Disc 1: Attack Of The Grey Lantern
Disc 2: Six
Disc 3: Little Kix
Disc 4: Kleptomania
Discs 5 to 9: Singles, EPs, B-Sides
Disc 10: Triple J, Live At The Wireless, Sydney, 1/4/97
Disc 11: Nynex Arena, Manchester – BBC Radio One Broadcast, 24/5/97
Disc 12: Glasgow Barrowlands, 25/5/97
Disc 13: Quart Festival, Kristiansand, Norway, 2/7/97
Disc 14: Glastonbury Festival 27/6/98
Disc 15: Brixton Academy, 23/10/98
Disc 16: Margate Winter Gardens, 24/1/99
Disc 17: Reading Festival, Radio One Broadcast, 29/8/99
Disc 18: V2000, 19/8/00
Disc 19: One Live In Cardiff, Radio One Broadcast, Lamacq Live, 23/10/00
Disc 20: Radio Sessions
Discs 21 to 24: Demos & Rarities
Disc 25: DVD:
Brixton Academy (23/10/98)
Top Of The Pops performances
Later With Jools Holland performances
Nobody Cares When You’re Gone documentary
This is a strictly limited edition so order now from The Official Mansun Store HERE