BMX BANDITS DREAMERS ON THE RUN Vinyl LP Indies only gatefold sleeve + 4 track 7"" 2024

Please note this a pre sale item due for release on 10th May, 2024

Indies Only Edition

Tracklist:

A1. Dreamers On The Run

A2. Setting Sun

A3. Time To Get Away

A4. What He Set Out To Be

A5. Cockerel’s Waiting

B1. My Name Is Duglas (Don’t Listen To What They Say)

B2. Home Before Dark – In The Industrial Zone

B3. Hop Skip Jump (For Your Love)

B4. The World Was Round

B5. Things You Threw Away

B6. Digital Dreamers

Tracklist Bonus 7":

A1. Setting Sun (Single Version with Intro)

A2. Your Class (Even More Dreams Version)

B1. Home Before Dark (Even More Dreams Version)

B2. Come Dance With Me

BMX Bandits are back with their twelfth studio album, their most musically ambitious so far –

'Dreamers On The Run'. An album dedicated to all the outsiders out there.

BMX Bandits were formed in the Scottish ex industrial town of Bellshill in 1985 by Duglas T Stewart

and Sean Dickson. When Sean left to concentrate on his other band The Soup Dragons so began

BMX Bandits, not as a conventional band of the same 4 or 5 faces but as an ever growing extended

musical family which has included members of The Vaselines, The Pastels, The Pearlfishers and

Teenage Fanclub over the years.

In 2014 Duglas formulated the idea for a new BMX Bandits album that would be called 'Dreamers

on the Run', about living in two worlds; the world of dreams and of music while trying to survive

the real world. Duglas started writing songs for the new album and even booked a couple of

shows to perform these new Dreamers songs live. Then Duglas got ill, his mental health spiralled

out of control and this led to physical health problems. The project was put on hold, the planned

live shows and recording were cancelled. During lockdown Duglas was commissioned to provide

the soundtrack for an independent feature film ‘Dreaded Light’. For this project Duglas chose multi

instrumentalist Andrew Pattie to be his main collaborator. Andrew had being playing guitar live

for the band for a few years. Duglas recalls “After recording an actual soundtrack for an actual

movie together it became obvious to me that Andrew was the right collaborator to make this very

cinematic album that I’d dreamt of. He had the musicality and fearlessness that it needed.”

So now, ten years later than originally planned 'Dreamers on the Run' is here. “Together we

worked on some of the song ideas and themes that I had a decade ago, completing them together

and both of us wrote new material that complemented the album’s narrative.” The album was

mastered by Duglas’ original partner in crime Sean Dickson, now known as Hifi Sean and features

guest appearances by giants of the International Pop Underground Jowe Head and Calvin Johnson.