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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   In 2014 Duglas formulated the idea for a new BMX Bandits album that would be called\u003ci\u003e Dreamers on the Run\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. 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In between live images of the moon mission and reports the BBC were screening episodes of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe starring Robert Hoffmann, a 1965 serialised telling of the classic tale of a man lost so far from home, it felt an appropriate choice of programme. The series was a French German production and for the BBC to broadcast it Hoffmann's dialogue had to be replaced in English. To do this they didn't have the option to just replace the voice and keep the original music and sound effects, everything had to be replaced. A new haunting soundtrack was produced by Gian Piero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReverberi and Robert Mellin. Their music for this show made a deep connection with me. It was so beautiful, it made me feel sad but I loved the feeling. It was a starting point in setting an aesthetic that runs through so much that I love in music and also in a lot of what I have done. Since then music composed \/ created for film and television has been a major passion and pleasure in my life and I always wanted to have an opportunity to work in this field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark, Dreaded Light's writer and director approached me through a mutual friend to see if I would be interested in supplying original music for his debut film. At that point it became about both of us making a leap of faith, deciding that we trusted each other. I knew I needed a collaborator to help bring my ideas and themes to life and to bring interesting and to also bring sympathetic ideas of their own to the project. And so I asked Andrew to work with me on the soundtrack. Andrew can play a lot of instruments well, is a great singer and has natural musicality. We loved and connected with the emotional content in the story and we found our first musical theme quite quickly. It was a reaction to imagining an opening titles sequence that would set a mood and tone for everything that would follow. This theme mutates and resurfaces at various points throughout the film. After that we found other themes that we connected to the emotions and physicality of the central characters. As well as the instrumental themes you will find two songs on this album. Spinning Through Times is our emotional end theme about love living on after death. Long Forgotten Summers is a song composed especially for this album, inspired by the film, musically it grew out of the film's opening theme. Andrew and I are proud of this album and are grateful that we had the opportunity to be part of this project. 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Originally released only on CD in 1996, this new vinyl version can be regarded as a ‘director’s cut’ – enhanced, expanded, featuring the group’s cult hero leader Duglas and a cast of pals including the likes of Norman Blake and Francis Macdonald (Teenage Fanclub), Sushil K Dade (Soup Dragons), Joe McAlinden (Superstar), Stuart Kidd, David Scott, Mitch Mitchell and Bill Wells. Plus lots of others. As well as a selection of Bandits originals and new tracks (such as the Blake- penned Slow Fade), Frankenstein also features covers of songs by Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, Randy Newman and more. “The album is our most lo-fi album and it contains more cover versions than we would usually have on an album but it still feels very personal to me,” says Duglas. “It had a strong influence on much of the material that BMX Bandits went on to make after my long-term partner-in-pop Francis Macdonald’s departure from the group in 2005.” The album begins with the magical Unbreakable Heart, which Duglas describes as “one of my favourite recordings I’ve ever been involved in … it was just the three of us (Norman, Frank and me) at Norman’s flat in Glasgow.” However, Duglas says the album never felt complete to him, explaining: “With this reissue I wanted to bring some other tracks to the album that felt like they belonged in the world of Duglas Stewart’s Frankenstein. So here it is. 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