B-Movie 'Hidden Treasures'

Release Date: 30/05/2025

Major label interest followed, from which came the deal with Phonogram, B-Movie initially re-recording the track ‘Remembrance Day’, which reached No61 in the UK chart in early 1981 and, more importantly, was played by BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, and appearing in his Festive 50 for that year. All of the recordings the band made during their Phonogram period have been consigned to the Universal Music vault for several decades, with the band finally managing to have these returned in 2024.  The various tapes have been digitised and restored, resulting in the creation of what would have been their 1982 debut LP ‘that never was’. Ten tracks including the three singles plus seven previously unreleased recordings. The CD version contains a further seven recordings including the 12” versions, single B-sides and the track “Moles’” from the Some Bizarre compilation.So “Hidden Treasures” from B-Movie, is only four decades late but still able to sit seamlessly alongside contemporaries like The Chameleons and The Sound. The LP is a darker, more brooding and psychedelic affair, more akin to the gothic elements of the Bunnymen or Joy Division, than the ‘pop sensations’ Phonogram wanted them to become. By both opening and closing this chapter of B-Movie, it puts them firmly in the same bracket as their new wave and post-punk contemporaries, which is the least they deserve, as one of the great ‘lost’ bands of the early 1980’s.
"It’s nice to hear B-Movie are finally getting a chance to release their forgotten gems’”   Matt Johnson (The The)

Tracklistings: 
Vinyl
Side 1
1/Citizen Kane
2/Remembrance Day
3/Polar Opposites
4/Marilyn Dreams
5/Ice

Side 2
1/La Lune Lunatique
2/All Fall Down
3/Nowhere Girl
4/Crowds
5/Beginning To Fade 

CD
1/Citizen Kane
2/Remembrance Day
3/Polar Opposites
4/Marilyn Dreams
5/Ice
6/La Lune Lunatique
7/All Fall Down
8/Nowhere Girl
9/Crowds
10/Beginning To Fade

Extra tracks CD only
11/Remembrance Day (Long version)
12/Institution Walls (Remix)
13/Marilyn Dreams (Long version)
14/Film Music Part 1
15/Nowhere Girl (Long Version)
16/Scare Some Life Into Me (single B-side version)
17/Moles