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30th Anniversary Show to be released as a download

We are half way through our 30th Anniversary year. Please check our live page for details on all upcoming shows. On April 17th we played a special show that reunited us with Davey Payne our original Saxophone man and the one and only Phill Jupitus came along to help us play New Boots And Panties in its entirety. This show was captured on 24 track digital technology and the resulting album "30" will be released as a download before the end of May. We will bring you more details as we get them (but in the meantime please check out our myspace page for a sneak peek at I Want To Be Straight).!

The Blockheads on iTunes!

We are proud to announce (in our quest for global domination) that the Straight From The Desk, Where's The Party albums and an exclusive downloadable soundtrack of our Colchester DVD (see below) can now be purchased via ITunes!

DVD Now onsale at The Block Shop

It's here. You can buy one and see the tracklist at The Block Shop!

There has already been a lot of talk about the behind the scenes documentary of the band which looks at life with the guys and their manager on the road, at soundchecks, relaxing after gigs and generally making Spinal Tap look like Simply Red. The doc features some bad language and sexual references that should be viewed by parents before being screened to children. There are also extra tracks on disc 2 featuring Phil Jupitus with the band on a couple of old favourites. The concert was filmed at the Colchester Arts Centre on December 18th 2004 by 4 cameras and as such is a very intimate setting.

PLEASE NOTE! The DVD's will only work for those who use the PAL operating system. So if you are not in the UK it is highly likely that you will not be able to view the discs on a television.

The Stiff years re-released!!

Surprisingly, for three such treasured albums, New Boots And Panties!! (1977); Do It Yourself (1979) and Laughter (1980) have never been given the full Deluxe 2 CD Edition re-issue treatment.

Demon Music Group has finally put this right at long last! With the full co-operation of both the Dury estate and The Blockheads, 2 CD sets include bonus discs with all the non-album singles sides, as well as previously unreleased demo versions, outtakes, and live versions, all retrieved from the untouched Dury tape archive.

The booklets feature full annotation, all the lyrics, and Dury ephemera. We would like to thank Val Jennings at Demon for putting together what we consider to be the ultimate versions of these albums.

To purchase from Amazon please click on an album cover below.