MARC ALMOND will release a deluxe 10-CD boxset, entitled ‘Trials of Eyeliner – Anthology 1979-2016’ on October 28th.
The 189-track collection, personally curated by Almond, will includes all his singles – including those by SOFT CELL and MARC AND THE MAMBAS – plus 18 unreleased tracks and an extensive selection of rarities from his catalogue. Packaged alongside a 64-page hardback book which includes a brand new interview with Marc alongside photographs and imagery from his own archive.
Talking about the release Marc Almond is quoted as saying “I can’t think of many artists who’ve been able to straddle the underground and the mainstream, to work in the underground and the commercial world, to do out-and-out pop and work with Coil or Throbbing Gristle. There’s a whole big swathe of the British public that only know me for part of my music, and don’t know me for another part. And that’s absolutely fine. I always thought that music was a ride. You go on it, and sometimes it’s successful and sometimes it’s disastrous, sometimes it gets acclaim and sometimes it gets absolutely knocked down. You pick up different people for different parts of the journey. It just happens. But you’ve just got to go on that ride.”
DISC 1 – HISTORY 1
Soft Cell – The Girl With the Patent Leather Face
Marc and the Mambas – Fun City
Marc and the Mambas – Sleaze (Readers Wifes Club Edit)
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf (original version)
Soft Cell – Youth
Soft Cell – Insecure Me (2002 edit)
Soft Cell – Loving You Hating Me
Soft Cell – Heat
Soft Cell – Meet Murder My Angel
Soft Cell – Surrender to a Stranger
Marc and the Mambas – Untitled
Marc and the Mambas – Big Louise
Marc and the Mambas – Torment
Marc and the Mambas – Catch a Fallen Star
Marc and the Mambas – A Million Manias
Marc Almond – Love Amongst The Ruined
Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners – Joey Demento
DISC 2 – HISTORY 2
Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners – Gutter Hearts
Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners – Crime Sublime
Marc Almond – Always
Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners – I Who Never
Marc Almond – Body Unknown
Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners – Saint Judy
Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners – The Hustler
Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners – There Is A Bed
Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners – Mother Fist
Marc Almond – The Devil (OKay) (Le diable (ça va))
Marc Almond – Lost Paradise (Le paradis perdu)
Marc Almond – The Stars We Are
Marc Almond – These My Dreams Are Yours
Marc Almond (featuring Nico) – Your Kisses Burn
Marc Almond- Toreador In The Rain
Marc Almond – The Sea Still Sings
Marc Almond – Meet Me in My Dream
Marc Almond – Champagne
DISC 3
Marc Almond – Vision (live)
Marc Almond – Night And No Morning
Marc Almond – Deadly Serenade
Marc Almond – The Edge Of Heartbreak
Marc Almond – Come In Sweet Assassin
Marc Almond – Lonely Go Go Dancer (Open All Night European version)
Marc Almond – Midnight Soul
Marc Almond – My Love (Dave Ball Remix)
Marc Almond featuring Siouxsie Sioux – Threat of Love (Neal X remix)
Marc Almond – One Big Soul
Soft Cell – Darker Times
Soft Cell – God Shaped Hole
Marc Almond – Under Your Wing
Marc Almond – Tantalise Me
Marc Almond – Lights
Marc Almond – Redeem Me (Beauty Will Redeem The World)
Marc Almond – The London Boys
Marc Almond – Stardom Road
DISC 4
Marc Almond – Sleeping Beauty
Marc Almond – The Storks
Marc Almond with Aquarium – Gosudaryunia
Marc Almond featuring the Orchestra Rossiya – Pearly Night
Marc Almond – Friendship
Marc Almond and Michael Cashmore – Feasting With Panthers
Marc Almond and Michael Cashmore – The Man Condemned to Death
Marc Almond – Variety
Marc Almond – Lavender
Marc Almond – Trials Of Eyeliner
Marc Almond – Farewell
John Harle and Marc Almond – Ratcliffe Highway
Marc Almond with Jeremy Reed and Othon – The Green Fairy
Marc Almond and Carl Barat – Love Is Not On Trial
Marc Almond – The Dancing Marquis
Marc Almond – Tasmanian Tiger
Marc Almond featuring Danielz – Death of a Dandy
Marc Almond – Zipped Black Leather Jacket
Marc Almond – Life in My Own Way
DISC 5 – SINGLES
Soft Cell – Memorabilia
Soft Cell – Tainted Love
Soft Cell – Bedsitter
Soft Cell – Say Hello Wave Goodbye
Soft Cell – Torch
Soft Cell – What (mono mix)
Soft Cell – Where The Heart Is
Soft Cell – Numbers
Soft Cell – Soul Inside
Soft Cell – Down In The Subway
Marc and the Mambas – Black Heart
Marc Almond – The Boy Who Came Back
Marc Almond – You Have (full version)
Marc Almond – Tenderness Is A Weakness
Bronski Beat & Marc Almond – I Feel Love (Medley)
Marc Almond – Stories Of Johnny
Marc Almond – The House Is Haunted By The Echo Of Your Last Goodbye
Marc Almond – Love Letter
Marc Almond – Ruby Red
Marc Almond – Melancholy Rose
DISC 6 – SINGLES PART 2
Marc Almond – A Woman’s Story
Marc Almond – Tears Run Rings
Marc Almond with Gene Pitney – Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart
Marc Almond – Bitter Sweet
Marc Almond – Only The Moment
Marc Almond – A Lover Spurned
Marc Almond – The Desperate Hours
Marc Almond – Waifs and Strays
Marc Almond – What Makes a Man (Live)
Marc Almond – Jacky
Marc Almond – My Hand Over My Heart
Marc Almond – The Days Of Pearly Spencer
Marc Almond – The Idol (Part 1)
Marc Almond – Adored and Explored
Marc Almond – Out There
Marc Almond – Brilliant Creatures
Marc Almond – Child Star
DISC 7 – SINGLES PART 3
P J Proby and Marc Almond with My Life Story Orchestra – Yesterday Has Gone
Marc Almond – Black Kiss
Marc Almond – Tragedy (Take a Look and See)
Marc Almond with Mekon – Please Stay
Marc Almond – Glorious (radio edit)
Marc Almond – Gone But Not Forgotten
Rosenstolz with Marc Almond – Total Eclipse
Soft Cell – Monoculture
Soft Cell – The Night
Marc Almond with Sarah Cracknell – I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten
Starcluster with Marc Almond – Smoke and Mirrors (Original Version)
System F featuring Marc Almond -Soul on Soul (radio edit)
King Roc featuring Marc Almond – Prime Evil (Boris Dlugosch mix – edit)
T-Total featuring Marc Almond – Baby’s On Fire
Mark Schneider with Marc Almond – Perfect Honey (Temptation)
Marc Almond – Nijinsky Heart
Marc Almond – Burn Bright
Marc Almond – Scar
Marc Almond – Bad To Me
Marc Almond – Demon Lover
DISC 8 – GEMS PART 1
Marc Almond – Oily Black Limousine
Marc Almond – Indigo Blue
The Burmoe Brothers featuring Marc Almond – Skin
Coil with Marc Almond – Dark Age of Love
Marc Almond – Amnesia Nights (demo)
Marc Almond with Mekon – Theatre of Dreams
Marc Almond – Demented, Deluded, Delirious (Mekon Remix)
Mekon featuring Marc Almond – Out of My Soul remix (edit)
Andrei Samsonov and Laska Omnia with Marc Almond – Passion and Pain
Andrei Samsonov and Laska Omnia with Marc Almond – The Guilt of My Secret (Original Version)
Marc Almond – Three Monkey Tango
Marc Almond – The Exhibitionist (original first demo)
Punx Soundcheck featuring Marc Almond – Vanity, Poverty, Revenge
Marc Almond – Fur (Jóhann Jóhannsson mix)
Marc Almond – Dead Eyed Child (remix)
Marc Almond – Black Satin (remix)
Marc Almond – Sequins and Stars
Othon featuring Marc Almond – Last Night I Paid to Close My Eyes
Marc Almond – Beautiful Losers
Marc Almond – City of Nights
DISC 9 – GEMS PART 2
Marc Almond – Tale of a Tart (Hell)
Marc Almond – Urban Velvet (1997 demo)
Marc Almond – The Beautiful Light of Madness (demo)
Marc Almond – Suburban Opera (1997 demo)
Marc Almond – Life’s a Lonely Drag (But I’m Alive) (demo)
Marc Almond – Bluegate Fields (demo)
Marc Almond – Someone Like Me (demo)
Marc Almond – I’m Your Karma (demo)
Marc Almond featuring Armen Ra –Kill Me or Make Me Beautiful
Marc Almond – When Bad People Kiss
Marc Almond with Othon – The Tango Song
Marc Almond with the Rossiya Orchestra – The Sun Will Arise
Marc Almond with the Rossiya Orchestra – Tenderness
Marc Almond with Antony Hegarty and the Rossiya Orchestra – River of Sorrow
John Harle with Marc Almond – Angel Eyes
Marc Almond – Keep Back Your Tears
X-TG featuring Marc Almond – The Falconer
Marc Almond with the Gaslight Troubadours – Eros and Eye
Marc Almond with Brian Reitzell – Snake Charmer
DISC 10
Marc Almond with Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra – Cry
Marc Almond with Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra – On My Soul (I Swear)
Marc Almond – Idiot Dancing
Marc Almond – Dark Is My World (Without Love)
Marc Almond – Kiss the Ghost Goodbye
Marc Almond – I Am No One (demo)
Marc Almond and Neal X – Criminal Lover
Marc Almond – The Crimson Diva
Marc Almond – Rhythm and Blues
Marc Almond – Suicide Saloon
Marc Almond – For Only You
Marc Almond – Brewer Street Blues
Marc Almond – Miss Urania
Marc Almond – The Perfumed Garden of Gulliver Smith (Afghan Candles version )
Marc Almond – Eyes (demo)
Marc Almond – Be Still (demo)
Marc Almond – Late Night
Marc Almond – Hurt Me (edit)
Marc Almond – When I Was A Young Man (live)
T. Rextasy with Marc Almond, Tony Visconti and the Dirty Pretty Strings –Teenage Dream (live) Marc Almond – I Created Me