SHY REFLECTIONS THE ANTHOLOGY ( BREAK DOWN THE WALLS) - SHY NEWS
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Press Release
SHY
Reflections – The Anthology 1983-2003
Catalogue number: CMEDD662
Release date: 21st November 2005
Castle Music/Sanctuary Records are proud to announce the release of the first ever 2-Disc career-spanning anthology by UK premier melodic rockers, Shy
Contains previously unreleased demo’s, fan favourites and material from the band’s most recent releases.
Shy will be undertaking dates to promote the release this Winter.
SHY - (About The Band:)
Formed in Birmingham in 1982 by singer Tony Mills who together with guitarist Steve Harris (no, not the Iron Maiden bassist), keyboardist Pat McKenna, bass player Mark Badrick and drummer Alan Kelly, created a sound that belied their Midlands roots. The band’s Stateside AOR leanings perfectly suited Mills’ high register vocalising which could be heard to great effect on the band’s debut album, Once Bitten, Twice Shy released on Ebony Records in 1983. Roy Davis replaced Badrick on bass and the band signed to RCA Records for their second album, Brave The Storm (1985) which refined Shy’s solid approach to their songwriting. However, it was the RCA follow-up, Excess All Areas which is regarded as the band’s most consistent work and gained much critical acclaim within the Rock press upon its release in 1987. Shy released a further album in the 80’s entitled Misspent Youth, this time through MCA Records but due to changes in musical focus, Tony Mills left in 1990 to pursue session work and enjoyed artistic freedom through several solo releases. Just over a decade later, Mills re-joined for the Unfinished Business album released in 2001, thus opening a new chapter in Shy’s career.
About The Album:
The Anthology is the first fully comprehensive collection from the Shy canon and covers the band’s entire career from their ‘83 debut album, Once Bitten, Twice Shy right up to the present day. Disc 1 gathers together a selection of tracks from the band’s first three albums and also includes the bonus track, ‘All On You’ which was recorded at the time of the band’s debut but only later surfaced on the CD re-issue in ‘98. Disc 2 continues with tracks from the Brave The Storm album from ‘85 before venturing into a selection of demo’s and two tracks from the Welcome To The Madhouse album from 1994. Following an acoustic treatment to the track, ‘Young Heart’, we round-off the anthology nicely with tracks from Shy’s more recent studio albums and include two from 2001’s Unfinished Business and two from Sunset And Vine which was released earlier this year.
Tracklist
Disc One
1. Deep Water
2. Give Me A Chance
3. Think Of Me
4. Chained By Desire
5. All On You
6. Once Bitten, Twice Shy
7. Hold On (To Your Love)
8. Reflections
9. Keep The Fires Burning
10. The Hunter
11. Brave The Storm
12. Emergency
13. When The Love Is Over
14. Can’t Fight The Nights
15. Just Love Me
16. Break Down The Walls
Disc Two
1. Telephone
2. Don’t Wanna Lose Your Love
3. Young Heart
4. Devil Woman
5. Talk To Me
6. Give It All You’ve Got (Demo) *
7. Burnin’ Up (Demo) *
8. Love On The Line (Demo) *
9. Money
10. What Love Can Make You Do (Demo) *
11. Crazy Crazy
12. Parasite
13. Young Heart (Acoustic) *
14. Skydiving
15. Breakaway
16. High Time
17. Soul Searching
* Previously unreleased
Shy - Live U.K. Dates
Saturday 26th November – Firefest II, Rock City, Nottingham
Saturday 3rd December – The Underworld, Camden (as support to Vaughn)
Friday 9th December – The Jailhouse, Coventry
Thursday 26th January 2006 – The Limelight, Crewe
April 2nd – Z Rock Festival, Limelight, Crewe.
For further information/interviews etc. please contact: Dorothy Howe : Tel: 020 8995 3920 : Email: press@dorothyhowe.co.uk
Or
Jean Claude Mighty
Tel: 020 7300 1350
Email: jean-claude.mighty@sanctuarygroup.com
www.Aoorock.com (Shy Unofficial web site)