MARK GILLESPIE
Only Human (2CD)

 

• Mark Gillespie's brilliant 1980 debut
• 16 bonus tracks!
• Deluxe 2CD presentation

Our highly anticipated re-issue of the 1980 debut album from Mark Gillespie is released on  the 12th of February, 2010. The album, Only Human is rightly regarded as one of the best debuts ever released in this country and Gillespie as one of our best ever songwriters. We have been working on this release for some time and there have been some great discoveries – including a wealth of rare and unreleased material - so much in fact, that we have decided to make the release a double. 

CD1 is the Only Human album with the addition of a rare post LP 3-track single ('Deep As You' / 'Stronger Together' / 'Falling').  CD2: The early years 1977-1979 collects all of Mark's pre-album recordings: 2 tracks from the OZ records compilation Debutantes, the whole of the legendary Black Tape demos (including a lost track that only surfaced
in 2009) and the 1979 single 'Comin’ Back For More' / 'Alligator  Music'. 

Gillespie is joined by some Australia 's finest musicians including; Ross Hannaford (Daddy Cool), Joe Creighton (Black Sorrows, Tim Finn) and Mark Meyer (Stylus, Richard Clapton). The CD's, digitally remastered by Gil Matthews, are packaged in an 8 panel digi-pak, with a 28 page booklet with rare photos and liner notes by Ted Lethborg. Gillespie, from some recent correspondence, gives us some terrific insights with his hilarious, and sometimes controversial, remembrances - as well as track by track comments for the album.

CD2 – the Early Years 1977-1979

From the 1977 OZ Records
sampler LP Debutantes
1. I’m A Kite
2. The Joke’s On You
The Black Tape, October 1978
3. Suicide Sister
4. Savonarola
5. Another Ms. Wrong
6. Talkin’ To The Devil
7. Nothin’ Special
8. Just Wanna Ball
9. Stormy Bed
10. Too Far Gone
11. Black Angel
(unreleased from the
Black Tape sessions)
Single 1979
12. Coming Back For More
13. Alligator Music