I'm In Fucking Underworld?

[lemonjelly]

I anticipate it will still happen. It seems to e something a lot of effort was put into - it just isn't happening as quickly as some fans want it to.
There's lots going on it seems - US tour (with 2 sets again), some festival dates being announced, the hundred days off remaster, the potential for additional uk/european dates in summer (we can hope!)

I am still really loving strawberry hotel. For me, it's a really complete album. I am still not shuffling, and enjoying every track.

Bands experience delays all the time. Another band I love were due to release a boxset in january, and 6 days prior to release it gets delayed until May. These things happen.

[purlieu]

I was surprised to see the album only got to number 43 in the UK charts, that's one of their lowest, only beaten by OWB (by a couple of places), and Drift which wasn't really done as a proper album anyway. Wasn't expecting it to be a smash hit, but given that Barbara reached the top 10 it seems really low. That can't be much more than a couple of thousand sales in the UK.



I'm still enjoying it a lot. I had a revisit of the three past deluxe editions recently and hmm, yeah, those albums are definitely deeper and more exciting than this, I sometimes forget how brilliant the '90s stuff is I think, and OWB will always be my personal favourite, but this not being up there with their best isn't exactly a major insult, it's still a superb record start to finish.

[lemonjelly]

charts operate in such a different way nowadays. there is so much focus on the week of release figures (hence why bands are doing so many limited editions, zoetrope vinyls, different colour releases and so on).

longetivity is key, and perhaps IIFU can develop some momentum?

drift seems to have re-invigorated the creative tendencies of UW. the IIFU trailer suggested a lot of unreleased stuff.

If it doesn't happen, when we buy the super deluxe boxset of strawberry hotel, there's a lot of content for it!