Slum Clearance cover

Slum Clearance is an album compiling all the songs The Siddeleys released back in the 1980s. It also features eight songs recorded for the John Peel show on BBC Radio One.
The album doesn't include "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)", The Siddeleys version of the Edison Lighthouse Number One hit. It appeared on the Anti Poll Tax album "Alvin lives in Leeds" and was omitted for copyright reasons.

Back in 1991 the "Mind The Gap" label tried to release the compilation but the band felt it was too early. Mind The Gap turned into TweeNet Communications and later into Clarendon Records. In April 1999 Peter Hahndorf of TweeNet approached the band about a song for the eighties compilation "The Sound Of Leamington Spa". The band agreed and Peter renewed his offer for a compilation. This time the band was cooperative and work begun. Jimmy Tassos, head of Matinee Records out of Washington D.C. was also a big Siddeleys fan and offered to do the album as well. In summer 1999 the two labels agreed on releasing the album together.
Most masters were still in possession of the band but the masters for "Bedlam on the Mezzanine" and "Wherever You Go" were hard to find. In the autumn of 2000 Jon Paradiso was added to the team as a designer.

Label Contacts

Clarendon Records logo
Matinee Recordings logo
Clarendon Records
Peter Hahndorf
London
England
twee.net/clarendon/
Matinée Recordings
Post Office Box 2181
Santa Barbara, CA 93120
United States of America
matineepop@hotmail.com
matineerecordings.com

Purchase

We are afraid the CD is sold out now. You can still look around, some shops or mail-orders may have copies left.
Radio charts / playlists

No.1 - KDVS (University of California in Davis) August 6th 2001
No.9 - KDVS (University of California in Davis) August 13th 2001
No.10 - Radio 1190 (University of Colorado in Boulder) August 2nd 2001
No.18 - WMBR (MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts) July 2001
No.27 - WHPK (University of Chicago, Illinois) August 14th 2001