I happened to come across the following (recent) job advertisement for London Records, where the candidate will be "working alongside the Label Manager to identify and exploit catalogue repertoire from artists such as Bananarama, Fine Young Cannibals, Orbital, Goldie, Sugababes, Shakespears Sister, Happy Mondays and many more". They'll also be "working with the legal and royalties team to identify any unreleased repertoire". This is really pleasing to see, as it suggests we might get more from their London years beyond the One Touch reissue.

 

From what I can remember, we know that Boys Will Be Boys, Date, and Stop, Look, Listen are still locked away in the vaults... I don't think it's likely these will be released anytime soon, but it gives me hope that at least All Around The World/The Other Side will make it to streaming. I think it's also quite likely that we'll get the full One Touch single packages on digital platforms - something similar to what Fascination did with The Saturdays (and their revamped single packages) would be amazing. :wub:

Ohh! That does sound very promising indeed.

Ok I want a job like this!!! I love exploring my favorite artist's back catalogue especially their unreleased material/b-sides.

I do hope we can get more One Touch outtakes and alternative mixes especially more of the stuff Ron Tom/Don-E did that were shelved.

I do hope we can get more One Touch outtakes and alternative mixes especially more of the stuff Ron Tom/Don-E did that were shelved.

Wow what a name for a job title.

Ooooohhhh that’s really cool!!! I do hope that we get some more stuff from the archives. That would be cool

I'm not too hopeful as I feel they just provided a list of artists that people might recognize. :lol:

 

With that said, Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan seem more open to releasing stuff from the vault that they don't particularly like themselves than let's say the Spice Girls.

I'm not too hopeful as I feel they just provided a list of artists that people might recognize. :lol:

 

With that said, Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan seem more open to releasing stuff from the vault that they don't particularly like themselves than let's say the Spice Girls.

 

Good point! And I really admire them for that. If they'd been as selective as the Spice Girls, there's no chance we'd have gotten All Around The World. :lol:

Good point! And I really admire them for that. If they'd been as selective as the Spice Girls, there's no chance we'd have gotten All Around The World. :lol:

 

I think they're well aware that there's no real demand for them to perform this stuff or putting them on there will risk it being a single or something. Spice Girls are strangely selective, but hey, at least we got Feed Your Love from them...