Haircut Pelican West Haircut One Hundred are to release a new 40th anniversary edition of their debut album, Pelican West, featuring 24 unreleased tracks.

Released in February 1982, the record made the band an instant smash. The non-album single Nobody’s Fool  has now been added to the 4CD and 4LP set.

The album will be available as a Super Deluxe Edition featuring a new remaster of Pelican West, all the 12” mixes and B-sides, a live set from Hammersmith Odeon and for the first time, the demos for their unfinished second album, which was given the provisional title Blue Hat For A Blue Day. 

You can pre-order the boxset here.

Over four CDs, there are 54 tracks, of which 24 are unreleased, including nascent versions of later Nick Heyward solo hits Whistle Down The Wind, Blue Hat For A Blue Day and the great lost Haircut One Hundred single Sunny Boy, Sunny Girl. 

The 4CD set features a 44-page booklet with a new 10,000-word sleeve note featuring an oral history of the time with all six members interviewed by the set’s curator, author and DJ Daryl Easlea.

The booklet also includes memorabilia and exclusive photographs from the personal collection of Haircut guitarist Graham Jones and bassist Les Nemes. Pelican West 40 is also available as a half-speed master vinyl LP as well as a 38-track 4-LP edition containing the new half-speed cut of the album along with the unreleased second album tracks and a collection of 12” mixes.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pelican West, Nick Heyward, Les Nemes, Graham Jones and Blair Cunningham will be performing a very special one-off show at London’s O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on May 12th, 2023. Tickets are available from 30 November here.

PELICAN WEST 40th ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION TRACKLISTING

CD 1 Pelican West

1. Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) 

2. Love Plus One

3. Lemon Firebrigade

4. Marine Boy

5. Milk Film

6. Kingsize (You’re My Little Steam Whistle) 

7. Fantastic Day

8. Baked Beans

9. Snow Girl

10. Love’s Got Me In Triangles

11. Surprise Me Again

12. Calling Captain Autumn

13. Nobody’s Fool

14. October Is Orange (Day 1&2)

 

CD 2 Pelican Plus

1. Boat Party (7” version)

2. Ski Club

3. Favourite Shirts(Boy Meets Girl) (12” version)

4. Love Plus One (12” version)

5. Fantastic Day (12” version)

6. Calling Captain Autumn (Special Extended Version) 

7. Boat Party (12” version)

8. Marine Boy (12” Version)

9. Ski Club Of Great Britain

10. Love’s Got Me In Triangles (Extended Version)

11. Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) (Extended Remix) 

12. Fantastic Day (Live)

13. Calling Captain Autumn (Extended Remix)

14. Nobody’s Fool (12” Version)

15. October Is Orange (Day 1 & 2) (12” Version)

 

CD 3 Junction Box – The Unfinished Tracks

1. I Believe In Sundays

2. Maytime Moments (Instrumental)

3. Cheek to Cheek (Instrumental)

4. Hayley’s Heart (Guide Vocal)

5. A Blue Hat for a Blue Day (Instrumental) 

6. Coming Home (Instrumental)

7. Brookfield Girl

8. Sunny Boy, Sunny Girl

9. Club Boy at Sea

10. Steam Bus Junction (Instrumental)

11. Whistle Down the Wind

 

CD 4 Haircut 100% Live! Hammersmith Odeon Spring 1982

1. Low Rider

2. Baked Beans

3. Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)

4. Calling Captain Autumn

5. Milk Film

6. Snow Girl

7.Lemon Fire Brigade

8. Fantastic Day

9. Love’s Got Me In Triangles

10. Love Plus One

11. Kingsize (You’re My Little Steam Whistle) 

12. Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) (Long) 

13. Calling Captain Autumn

14. Love Plus One (Encore)

 

4-LP SET

 

LP 1 Pelican West Half-Speed Master

Side A

Halfway to Paradise

1. Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)

2. Love Plus One

3. Lemon Firebrigade

4. Marine Boy

5. Milk Film

6. Kingsize (You’re My Little Steam Whistle) 

 

Side B

1. Fantastic Day

2. Baked Beans

3. Snow Girl

4. Love’s Got Me In Triangles

5. Surprise Me Again

6. Calling Captain Autumn

 

LP 2 Pelican Plus Part One

Side A

1. Boat Party (7” version)

2. Ski Club

3. Favourite Shirts(Boy Meets Girl) (12” version)

4. Love Plus One (12” version)

5. Fantastic Day (12” version)

 

Side B

1. Calling Captain Autumn (Special Extended Version) 

2. Boat Party (12” version)

3. Marine Boy (12” Version)

4. Ski Club Of Great Britain

 

LP 3 Pelican Plus Part Two

Side A

1. Love’s Got Me In Triangles (Extended Version) 

2. Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) (Extended Remix) 

3. Fantastic Day (Live)

 

Side B

1. Calling Captain Autumn (Extended Remix)

2. Nobody’s Fool (12” Version)

3. October Is Orange (Day 1 & 2) (12” version)

 

LP 4 Junction Box – The Unfinished Tracks

Side A

1. I Believe In Sundays

2. Maytime Moments (Instrumental)

3. Cheek to Cheek (Instrumental)

4. Hayley’s Heart (Guide Vocal)

5. A Blue Hat for a Blue Day (Instrumental) 

 

Side B

1. Coming Home (Instrumental)

2. Brookfield Girl

3. Sunny Boy, Sunny Girl

4. Club Boy at Sea

5. Steam Bus Junction (Instrumental)

6. Whistle Down the Wind