Starsailor have announced a 25th anniversary reissue of their debut album ‘Love Is Here’ – see all the details below.
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Originally recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales with producer Steve Osborne and released in October 2001, ‘Love Is Here’ went on to sell over one million copies worldwide and has now amassed more than 56million streams on Spotify.
The new edition of the record will arrive via Parlophone on October 2, and has been fully remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road. Pre-order your copy here.
The vinyl edition will feature the original album in a gatefold sleeve and will be available on coloured vinyl for the first time, while a two-CD version will add alternative live and session recordings from the BBC, bonus tracks, live imagery and recollections from frontman James Walsh.
Among the extras are a previously unreleased David Kosten mixes of ‘Fever’ that you can check out below, as well as original demos of ‘Good Souls’ and ‘Poor Misguided Fool’, and the band’s version of ‘All Or Nothing’ from the 2002 War Child/NME charity compilation ‘1Love’.
DISC TWO – ‘LOVE IS HERE LIVE AT THE BBC’.
The reissue arrives as Starsailor prepare to celebrate the album’s 25th anniversary with a UK and European tour. The shows will see the band perform ‘Love Is Here’ in full alongside a string ensemble arranged and conducted by Joe Duddell, who has previously worked with New Order, Elbow, James and Richard Hawley.
The run begins at the London Palladium on the same day as the reissue is released, before heading to Bexhill and a series of shows across Europe. Starsailor will then return to the UK for dates in Edinburgh, Manchester, Poole and Birmingham later in the month.
Find any remaining tickets for the shows here.
2 – London, Palladium 3 – Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion 6 – Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg 7 – Bruges, Stadsschouwburg 9 – Turnhout, De Warande 10 – Hasselt, Cultuurcentrum 12 – Bern, Bierhübeli 17 – Edinburgh, Usher Hall 18 – Manchester, Bridgewater Hall 22 – Poole, Lighthouse 23 – Birmingham, Town Hall.
Speaking to NME at the time, Walsh reflected on the album’s place in the early ’00s British music scene and rejected the idea that bands such as Starsailor were merely filling a gap before the emergence of The Strokes and The White Stripes.
In NME’s review of ‘Love Is Here’, the record was praised as “a debut album of real emotional depth”, with particular acclaim for Walsh’s vocals and songwriting.
Starsailor went on to release five more studio records, most recently 2024’s ‘Where The Wild Things Grow’. The band have confirmed they intend to begin work on their seventh studio album following the ‘Love Is Here’ anniversary shows.
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