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Heaven 17 details 'Penthouse and Pavement' 2CD/1DVD reissue, announces live DVD

Heaven 17 details ‘Penthouse and Pavement’ 2CD/1DVD reissue, announces live DVD

The expanded 2CD/1DVD reissue of Heaven 17’s synthpop classic ‘Penthouse and Pavement’ will pair the remastered 1981 album with 20 previously unreleased ‘demos, instrumentals and experimentation’ from that era, plus a DVD featuring the hour-long documentary ‘The Story of Penthouse and Pavement.’

Milestones: Robert Smith's 'Cure FM' pirate radio broadcast was 20 years ago tonight

Milestones: Robert Smith’s ‘Cure FM’ pirate radio broadcast was 20 years ago tonight

Twenty years ago tonight, Robert Smith and the rest of The Cure — aided by a pair of American DJs and shadowed by MTV and the music press — set up a pirate radio station at the headquarters of Fiction Records with plans to illicitly premiere their soon-to-released remix album ‘Mixed Up’ over the London airwaves.

Q&A: Heaven 17's Martyn Ware on 'Penthouse and Pavement' tour, box set reissue

Q&A: Heaven 17’s Martyn Ware on ‘Penthouse and Pavement’ tour, box set reissue

Slicing Up Eyeballs got a chance to talk to Heaven 17’s Martyn Ware last week about the making of the band’s landmark debut, ‘Penthouse and Pavement,’ as well as the forthcoming 30th anniversary tour for the album and plans for a new box set.

Heaven 17 preps 'Penthouse and Pavement' 3CD box set with newly discovered demos

Heaven 17 preps ‘Penthouse and Pavement’ 3CD box set with newly discovered demos

Classic synthpop group Heaven 17 will reissue its celebrated 1981 debut ‘Penthouse and Pavement’ this November as a multi-disc ‘super luxury box set’ that will include a full CD of newly unearthed eight-track demos, band co-founder Martyn Ware tells Slicing Up Eyeballs.

In stores Tuesday: Pet Shop Boys import, new KMFDM, Dukes of Stratosphear reissues

In stores Tuesday: Pet Shop Boys import, new KMFDM, Dukes of Stratosphear reissues

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday: ARTIST: Pet Shop Boys ALBUM: Yes BACKSTORY: PSB’s 10th studio album […]