2-CD: MCDLX075
RELEASED: 2008
LABEL: Blue Apple

Disc: 1 (Remastered)
01. Don?t Fall
02. Here Today
03. Monkeyland
04. Second Skin
05. Up The Down Escalator
06. Less Than Human
07. Pleasure and Pain
08. Thursday?s Child
09. As High As You Can Go
10. A Person Isn?t Safe Anywhere These Days
11. Paper Tigers
12. View From A Hill

Disc: 2 (Live 1983)
01. In Shreds (previously unreleased version)
02. Dear Dead Days (previously unreleased version)
03. Things I Wish I?d Said (previously unreleased version)
04. Don?t Fall (live, Bremen 1983)
05. Here Today (live, Bremen 1983)
06. Thursday?s Child (live, Bremen 1983)
07. A Person Isn?t Safe Anywhere These Days (live, Bremen 1983)
08. Less Than Human (live, Bremen 1983)
09. Pleasure and Pain (live, Bremen 1983)
10. Second Skin (live, Bremen 1983)
11. Paper Tigers (live, Bremen 1983)
12. Monkeyland (live, Bremen 1983)
13. Singing Rule Britannia (live, Bremen 1983)
14. Up The Down Escalator (live, Bremen 1983)
15. View From A Hill (live, Bremen 1983)

To celebrate the 25th anniversary, 'Script Of The Bridge' it is being reissued on May 26th as a 2 CD set, the album has been remastered and contains three exclusive studio remixes, disc 2 features a live concert recorded on the bands 1983 European tour, giving a total of 27 tracks. The 2-disc album is presented in a digipack with brand new artwork by Chameleons guitarist Reg Smithies, including a 16 page booklet, with lyrics, sleeve notes and never seen before photos. - With two years, numerous radio sessions and incessant gigging under their belts since their debut single "In Shreds, " the Chameleons came to the studio determined to make a great first album with Script Of The Bridge. This album remains a high-water mark of what can generally be called 'post-punk music, ' an hour's worth of one amazing song after another, practically a greatest hits record on its own: the John Lennon tribute "Here Today, " "Monkeyland, " "Pleasure and Pain, " "Paper Tigers, " "As High As You Can Go, " the breathtaking closer "View From a Hill." Starting with the passionate fire of "Don't Fall, " Script Of The Bridge showcases how truly inventive, unique and distinctly modern rock and roll could exist, instead of relentlessly rehashing the past to little effect. The scalpel-sharp interplay between the musicians is a sheer wonder to behold the Fielding /Smithies guitar team provoke nothing but superlatives throughout, and Lever and Burgess make a perfect rhythm section - while the crisp production of Colin Richardson and the band adds delicate synthlines and shadings, courtesy of early touring keyboardist Alistair Lewthwaite , and just the right amount of reverb and effects on the guitars. Add to that the words of Burgess , one of the few lyricists out there who can tackle big issues while retaining a human, personal touch, and it all just adds up perfectly.

Influences / Similar Artists:
The Smiths, The Sound, The Comsat Angels, Catherine Wheel