The Triffids - Wide Open Road…The Best Of

• Domino are to release their eagerly awaited Best of The Triffids deluxe boxset ‘Come Ride With Me ... Wide Open Road – The Best Of The Triffids’, which features 10 discs spanning the band’s entire career. That same day they also release an accompanying 18 track single disc compilation ‘Wide Open Road - The Best of The Triffids’. • On Friday 9 April, the remaining members of The Triffids will gather together with a cast of characters, friends, guest musicians and vocalists at London’s Barbican for a special concert (‘A Secret In The Shape Of A Song’) to showcase and celebrate the songwriting genius of their late leader David McComb, who died in 1999. • Originally presented at The Sydney Festival in 2008, classics like ‘Wide Open Road’ and ‘Bury Me Deep In Love’ will be performed alongside B-sides, unreleased works and readings from David’s prose in a theatrical night of words and songs that will roll like perfect waves in a biographical celebration of David McComb’s work. • These releases continue the Triffids reissue programme which Domino started in 2006 with the release of the band’s classic ‘Born Sandy Devotional’ album, and which has seen ‘Calenture’, ‘In The Pines’, ‘Black Swan’ and ‘Treeless Plain’ all remastered and released as deluxe CDs with additional music and sleevenotes. • Along the way there have been singles, a limited edition 7” singles boxset, an unreleased album ‘Beautiful Waste And Other Songs’; unexpected live shows in Belgium and Amsterdam, a performance with special guests and friends as part of 2008’s Sydney Festival in Australia and even the honouring of the band with a Blue Plaque in London. • The band were inducted into the Australian Hall Of Fame in 2008. CD 1 (this is also the tracklisting of the single disc ‘Best of....’ – CD 2 REWIGCD72) Wide Open Road - The Best of The Triffids Wide Open Road Red Pony Reverie Beautiful Waste Hell Of A Summer Property Is Condemned Raining Pleasure The Seabirds Lonely Stretch Stolen Property Kathy Knows Bury Me Deep A Trick Of The Light Jerdacuttup Man Too Hot To Move Goodbye Little Boy New Years Greetings Save What You Can The Early Singles and EP’s CD 3 The Early Cassettes. A selection from the Triffids’ first, second, third and fourth cassetteS CD 4 The Early Cassettes. The Triffids’ fifth and sixth cassettes CD 5 Grandson of Dungeon Tape. Dungeon Tape and Son of Dungeon Tape – A Selection CD 6 Live To Air on 3PBS from the Regal Room at The Prince Of Wales Hotel, St Kilda - 16/4/84 CD 7 Live At the London School Of Economics – 13/10/84 CD 8 Live At Melbourne University – 27/03/88 CD 9 Jack Brabham 2010 Volume 1 Live recordings, unreleased tracks and historical snippet 1977 to 1989 CD 10 Jack Brabham 2010 Volume 2 Demos, Unheard Songs and Historical Snippets 1977 to 1988

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