At ATP's Don't Look Back shows, bands play their classic albums straight through. It's a good idea, one that worked great at the last two Pitchfork Music Festivals when bands like Sonic Youth and Public Enemy reprised their defining works. But even the best albums usually have filler tracks or zone-out stretches that inevitably end up sounding a bit flat live. For an album to work in this kind of setting, it needs peaks and valleys, quiet moments and climactic ragers. It needs something like a narrative arc, and it has to unfurl just right.

Spritualized's 1997 drug-rock breakup opus Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space is basically the perfect Don't Look Back album. Now, the band will bring it to the stage of London's Royal Festival Hall for a Don't Look Back show on October 12. This is the sort of thing that makes me wish I could afford plane tickets.

Ladies and Gentlemen, arguably the band's best album, moves gracefully from expansive blissout moments like the title track to stormy classic-rock bangers like "Come Together" and culminates in the 17-minute junkie free-jazz epic "Cop Shoot Cop", which will absolutely wreck everybody's shit live, especially if the ATP folks spring for a decent light show. And when the band plays this ambitious, gorgeously produced record live, they'll do it right, bringing a gospel choir, string and horn sections, and special guests with them.

Sony will reissue Ladies and Gentlemen in October with "added content and new packaging," according to the Spiritualized website. This sounds pretty badass, even if Sony has basically no chance of improving on the fake prescription bottle packaging of the original.

I so wish I could be at that show.

Yeah, that would be amazing. One of the best albums I can think of to do as a fully fleshed out performance.

i love both of u guys

Is anyone religious? We could start a collection and pass it off as a Christian band.

jason pierce would write a better bible

they better release a fuckin dvd

Take as prescribed.

thats the holy grail









http://sleevage.com/spiritualized-ladie ... -in-space/

Yeah, I don't know how there could be better package than that.

Spiritualized to reissue 'Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space' album

A 'collector's edition' will come with the original album on mini CD format plus two bonus discs of extra material including demos and alternative mixes (see below for full tracklisting).

A 'special edition' will feature the original record in standard CD format plus the bonus discs.

Spiritualized are set to perform the album live at the All Tomorrow's Parties event at the London Royal Festival Hall venue on October 12 and 13, then at the London Barbican Centre on December 16 and 17.

The bonus CD tracklisting of the 'Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space' reissues will be:

Bonus CD1

'Ladies And Gentlemen (A Cappella)'
'Ladies And Gentlemen (Demo)'
'Ladies And Gentlemen (Strings)'
'Ladies And Gentlemen (Kate Telephone Call)'
'Ladies And Gentlemen (Moles Studio Mix 7)'
'Ladies And Gentlemen (Original Oratone Ideas)'
'Ladies And Gentlemen (A Cappella w/ Lead Vocal)'
'Come Together (Instrumental Demo)'
'Come Together (Demo In Lower Key)'
'I Think I'm In Love (Original Demo Idea)'
'I Think I'm In Love (Demo)'
'I Think I'm In Love (Drums/Wah)'
'I Think I'm In Love (A Cappella)'
'I Think I'm In Love (Vocal Demo Jan 96)'
'I Think I'm In Love (Gospel Choir Session)'
'All Of My Thoughts (Demo)'
'All Of My Thoughts (Strings)'
'Rocket Shaped Song'

Bonus CD2

'Electricity (Demo)'
'Electricity (January 96)'
'Electricity (June 96)'
'Home Of The Brave (Demo)'
'Home Of The Brave (Panned Vocal)'
'Beautiful Happiness'
'Broken Heart (Demo)'
'Broken Heart (Strings)'
'Broken Heart (Vocal Harmony/Angel Corpus Christi)'
'Broken Heart (Early Vocal)'
'No God Only Religion (Demo)'
'No God Only Religion (Horns)'
'Cool Waves (Demo)'
'Cool Waves (String Session Mix)'
'Cop Shoot Cop (Demo)'
'Cop Shoot Cop (Dr. John 'The National Anthem)'
'Cop Shoot Cop (String Session Mix)'

no vinyl?