Expansive 5CD box set anthology of BSides, rarities and archive material from Toyahs recording history for the Safari label. Featuring 102 tracks 50 are previously unreleased, bringing together rarities, alternate versions, outtakes, new mixes and revelatory gems from tape vaults and personal archives. Housed in a clamshell box, the five themed discs are in full colour CD wallets with a 40page booklet featuring classic, rare and unseen images. CD1 BSides contains, for the first time ever, the bands complete run of 22 BSides and flexidisc tracks, plus three completedmixed outtakes not included on LPs, EPs or singles. CD2 Instrumentals offers an atmospheric and evocative journey through 20 Instrumental versions of the bands music, featuring six tracks newly mixed from the multitrack master tapes. CD3 Alternate brings together 20 alternate versions 13 of which are previously unreleased of hit singles, beloved BSides and album cuts. Notable inclusions are four new mixes by Joel Bogen utilising unearthed 1979 multitrack tapes from the Sheep Farming In Barnet sessions at Chappell Studios. CD4 Rare compiles rarities and works in progress 13 of which are previously unreleased from early sessions for Sheep Farming In Barnet to studio outtakes and home demos. Backing tracks recorded in sessions for Anthem and Thunder In The Mountains are included alongside preparatory home demos for The Changeling and Love Is The Law albums. The disc closes with Toyah Willcox and Joel Bogen home demo covers of Alice Coopers Schools Out and Lou Reeds Perfect Day. CD5 Live presents 18 previously unheard recordings leading with a newly discovered recording of the bands soldout 20th May 1981 show on the Anthem Tour. Featuring rare performances of Marionette, Obsolete, Jungles Of Jupiter and We Are, plus four more concert rarities recorded at a special pretour gig at Brixton Fairdeal, including the only public performance of Life In The Trees and an unheard live version of Be Proud Be Loud Be Heard from the Christmas 1982 Warrior Rock Tour, featuring performances by the late Keith Hale and the late Phil Spalding.
