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July 2020
July 15, 2020

Tiger Bay 1994
(saintetienne, tigerbay)
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July 16, 2020

1991 Nothing Can Stop Us Now

(saintetienne, foxbasealpha, OMZ, joedilworth, lament.for.cement, heavenlyrecordings)
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July 17, 2020

1993 ID

(id, saintetienne, sarahcracknell, idmagazine, 90sstyle, keanureeves)
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July 18, 2020

2000 Sound Of Water Mantra Recordings

(saintetienne, soundofwater, bobpetesarah, mantrarecordings)
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July 19, 2020

1998 Yellow Room

(yellowroom, bobpetesarah, saintetienne, 1998)
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July 20, 2020

1993 I Was Born On Christmas Day

I'd met Tim in Manchester earlier in the year and we got on really well. So when we were looking for someone to duet on our Christmas single he was the obvious choice and I was made up when he said yes. The lyrics were by Bob who was indeed born on Christmas Day. We recorded the vocals in the toilet at Ian Catt's tiny studio in Mitcham and had one of the best days ever making the video. Happy times!!

Sarah Cracknell 1995

(thecharlatans, ogenesisrecords, tomsheehan, monnonvalleystudios, saintetienne, timburgess, christmassingle, christmasday, topofthepops, weddingvideo)
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July 21, 2020

2012 Words And Music By Saint Etienne

'Words And Music By Saint Etienne' was our first album in seven years, which meant plenty of time to reflect on where we were and where we'd been. Our love of pop music and it's thread through our lives (and on into the future) made for perfect subject matter. We had four - four! - different people who had worked on number one records working with us. It felt like the whole album was recorded on summer days in Surrey and Sussex, though I know it can't have been. But I'd like to think it sounds that way.

Bob Stanley

(saintetienne, wordsandmusic, wearedorothy, m62, manchester, liverpool, popmusic, heavenlyrecordings)
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July 22, 2020

2020 Words And Music Splatter Vinyl (4 Pictures)

The original vinyl pressing for Words And Music sold out in seconds flat back in 2012 so we've decided to make it available once again. We pressed a special splatter vinyl - in white with green, yellow and black streaks - for the #loverecordstores event back in June and will offer the last 200 copies of these tomorrow - 23rd July - from 6pm BST - click the link https://bit.ly/30Ca07V in our bio. We also have a limited edition black vinyl edition available via the same link. These come in a perfect reproduction of the original Phil Skegg (Dorothy) designed sleeve complete with card inner, download card and exclusive postcards (also designed by Phil Skegg). We've got your music!!

(heavenlyrecordings, saintetienne, bobpetesarah, pias, wordsandmusic, dorothyuk)
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July 23, 2020

1998 Good Humor

We're looking moody here having just returned from the Good Humor recording sessions in Malmo and having slightly over-enjoyed ourselves as we did in those days. A great picture from Hamish Brown who we met via Robin Turner and Nick Dewey (who together with Hamish and Mat Flint made up the legendary Revolver)

Pete Wiggs

(goodhumor, sweden, torejohansson, hamishbrown, bobpetesarah, saintetienne, hbsauce14, creationrecords)
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July 24, 2020

1993 Holloway Road

This was taken at Backstreet Studio's on Holloway Road a few doors down from where Joe Meeks studio had been in the 60's. It was taken by Andy Willsher for an NME magazine feature but ended up on the cutting room floor. Bob and Pete are looking mean and moody in the background, we definitely used to spend more time in the pub over the road than rehearsing.

Sarah Cracknell

(saintetienne, hollowayroad, joemeek, bobpetesarah, andywillsher, nmemagazine, ninetiesstyle)
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July 25, 2020

1998 Brighton Beach

Photography by Elaine Constantine, Good Humor

(brighton, brightonbeach, goodhumor, bobpetesarah, saintetienne, elaineconstantine)
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July 26, 2020

Out next Friday. The soundtrack for a mid 70s LA bar where Warren Beatty might have met Julie Christie for a mid afternoon cocktail.

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July 26, 2020

1993 Who Do You Think You Are? NME ad 1993

(candlewickgreen, nme, saintetienne, debsey, dollymixture, bobpetesarah)
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July 27, 2020 (Video)

Like A Motorway Live visual created by Paul Kelly

(heavenlyfilms, bobpetesarah, likeamotorway, motorway, tigerbay, vapourtrail, paulkelly, gigvisual)
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July 28, 2020

1990 - Bob and Pete in the Precracknell era, when Saint Etienne had no fixed vocalist, flicking a V at the rock establishment.

(saintetienne, bobpetesarah)
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July 29, 2020

2000 Sarah Cracknell Berlin

Check my make-up and check my watch again, I can hardly wait. Play the album and play it all again, I can hardly wait

Photograph taken by Rachael Cassells during the sessions for Sound Of Water in Berlin early 2000.

(sarahcracknell, saintetienne, rachaelcassells, rachaelponycassells, rachaelpony, soundofwater, berlin, 2000)
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July 30, 2020 (Two Photos)

May 2000 This was shot shortly after we'd finished recording Sound Of Water with To Rococo Rot. That's Ronald Lippok from the band and Etienne Daho who we'd worked with a few years earlier. Believe in Magic!

Sarah Cracknell

Pictures by Philippe Levy Photo

(etiennedaho, torococorot, sarahcracknell, philippelevyphotographer, christophebasterra, cbasterra, magicrevuepopmoderne, paris, 2000)
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July 31, 2020 (Two Photos)

2000 Sound Of Water

The cover for the album is from Julian Opie's 1999 painting 'Engines Voices Footsteps, a landscape image titled after three sounds he heard at the time he took the photograph.

Things in my experience don't look photographic. When I recall the things I did in a day, for example, it's not as a series of photographs, high resolution pictures. It's a series of images which resemble symbols and signs. It's like another language.

Julian Opie, 2001

(saintetienne, soundofwater, julianopie, 2000)
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