NEWS

9 December 2005   Sarah Nixey goes solo
It has been a long time since the last new entry. Sarah Nixey goes solo and her debut single, "The Collector/Love And Exile", will be released on December 12 via iTunes, though it is already avaliable on TuneTribe. The tracks are "The Collector" and "Love And Exile". You can read more over Sarah's official website: sarahnixey.com

8 June 2003   New single - The School Song
Black Box Recorder will release The School Song on June 30 as their second single from Passionoia. It will be released on 7" and CD where both containing The School Song and a Stars On 45-esque adaptation of the entire Passionoia album, and the CD also containing a live performance of Lord Lucan Is Missing.

10 February 2003   New official site, tour dates, Q reviews
Check out the new official site here: http://www.indian.co.uk/artists/bbr/index.htm. The single, These Are The Things, can be heard on the site, and the release date has been set back to February 24th.

Upcoming tour dates:
8th LEEDS Cockpit
9th LONDON Mean Fiddler
10th NORWICH Arts Centre
11th BIRMINGHAM Academy 2
13th BRIGHTON Pavilion

And there is a review on BBR's new album, Passionoia in this issue of Q. Q gives 3 stars out of 5 to it.

21 January 2003   More album, single and appearance details
Black Box Record, who recently signed to One Little Indian Recordings and completed work on their third album entitled Passionoia, will be performing live at Metro in Oxford Street on January 30th. The band have now confirmed release dates for their single These Are The Things on February 17th and their astonishing new LP Passionoia on March 3rd. The tracklisting of the album can be read from below.

15 January 2003   New album news
Black Box Recorder have signed a new record deal and will release a new album Passionoia in February 2003. The trio, featuring Luke Haines, have signed to One Little Indian Recordings and have completed work on their third album, the follow up to 2000's The Facts Of Life. A single, These Are The Things, will also be released in February.

The full track listing is:
  The School Song
  GSOH QED
  British Racing Green
  Being Number One
  The New Diana
  These Are The Things
  Andrew Ridgely
  When Britain Refused To Sing
  Girls Guide For The Modern Diva
  I Ran All The Way Home

The band are planning a UK tour in the spring to promote the release of the record. (thx to Darrell)

7 May 2002   Sarah Nixey On The Couch
Although a bit late, here is an NME interview with Sarah Nixey, click here to read the full interview. Also, the official Black Box Recorder site @ http://www.blackboxrecorder.co.uk and the Facts of Life site @ http://www.thefactsoflife.co.uk are now down.

15 November 2001   New address
We are now moved to new server with new address: www.leslieccy.net/blackboxrecorder.

31 September 2001   New compilation released
US fans may have noticed that BBR releaed an album, The Worst Of Black Box Recorder. It is a collection of b-sides and rare tracks, with four enhanced videos and there is a previously unreleased track, Jackie Sixty. You can check out the tracklisting in the discography section.

22 April 2001   New editions for Hong Kong releases
This news may not be revalent to foreign BBR fans, but it is an exciting news for those in Hong Kong, because BBR's album The Facts Of Life will be re-released (though not released via a local label before, there were imported copies) in new format. According to ChiChung's Choice (a local radio show, more details on the radio show, please check out http://www.chichungschoice.com), the album will be releaed probably with new tracklisting, details to be confirmed soon.

15 November 2000   Glastonbury Festival footage
Check out the archived Glastonbury Festival webcast (festival highlights) footage of BBR at http://www.playlouder.com/glastonbury. Click Programme 2, and at around 4 minutes of running time, that's the BBR part.

12 June 2000   New single details
BBR is going to release their second single taken from their second album, The Facts Of Life. The new single, The Art Of Driving, will be released on 3rd July. On CD1, a radio edit of the title track and a remix of The Facts Of Life by Chocolata Layers (aka Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey), and a cover of the David Bowie classic Rock'N'Roll Suicide. On CD2, the album version of the title track, a BBR remix of Uptown Top Ranking and a radio edit of The Facts Of Life with the enhanced CD video of The Facts Of Life. And on the limited 7" (of 1500) will feature the radio edit of The Art Of Driving on A-side with the Chocolate Layer's remix of The Facts Of Life on B-side.

24 March 2000   The Facts Of Life and official BBR page and tracklistings
Nude Records has lanuched two brand new official BBR page, one is the band's own page (http://www.blackboxrecorder.co.uk) and the other is new album's page, The Facts Of Life (http://www.thefactsoflife.co.uk), go check them today!
Also, here is the tracklistings for CD1 of the single The Facts Of Life:
  The Facts Of Life
  Soul Boy
  Start As You Mean To Go On
And here is the one for album:
  The Art Of Driving
  Weekend
  The English Motorway
  May Queen
  Sex Life
  French Rock 'n' Roll
  The Facts Of Life
  Straight Life
  Gift Horse
  The Deverell Twins
  Goodnight Kiss

13 February 2000   The Facts Of Life postponed
Nude Records has announced recently on her website that Black Box Recorder will be releasing their 2nd album later, The Facts Of Life, on May 1 2000, and it will be preceded by the single of the same name which is also postponed to April 3 2000.

29 December 1999   The Facts Of Life next April
Nude Records has announced recently on her website that Black Box Recorder will be releasing their 2nd album, The Facts Of Life, on April 3 2000, and it will be preceded by the single of the same name on March 6 2000.

9 August 1999   England Made Me released in US
Black Box Recorder's debut LP, England Made Me, is now available in US via Jetset Records. The catalogue number of the disc is TWA021CD. The disc features the original track listing plus 4 bonus tracks, Wonderful Life, Seasons In The Sun, Factory Radio, Lord Lucan Is Missing.

8 July 1999   Black Box Recorder change label
Black Box Recorder have left Chrysalis and signed to Nude Records, home of Suede. The band, who play the Reading and Leeds festivals over the August Bank Holiday, plan to release a single on Nude before the end of the year. They are currently working on a new LP.