Rigged 30

I finally got around to picking up the Farside LP repressed that Rev put out last year. Obviously I own each of these multiple times now, but this was not going to stop me buying them again, especially as Farside are one of my favourite ever bands.

The pressing info on these is:

'Rochambeau' - red marble vinyl / 450
'Rigged' - mint green vinyl / 550
'The Monroe Doctrine' - mint green vinyl / 642

The mystery here is why they didn't do all three on mint green, and why they pressed different numbers of each. But Rev pressing info was never really supposed to make sense, haha.

This pressing of 'Rigged' marks the 30th anniversary of its release, and to mark this they have gone to town and made a giant booklet instead of a regular insert.

The booklet is written by Kevin Murphy and talks about the era from his perspective, from being asked to join the band to the European tour of 1992 to then getting home and recording 'RIgged' a few months later. It's a really interesting read, although I would have liked it more if there were some words from the other members of the band too.

After listening to the 'Where It Wrnt' podcast episodes that involved Farside, it feels that the band had a great vibe and sense of humour. This comes across here as someone has thought to update the photos of the ID cards that were on the back cover of the record with updated versions.

I love detail like this. It shows that they really gave it some thought and put some effort in. It's also when you notice that these have definitely been tampered with digitally to create more little jokes. I mean, I very much doubt that Kevin lives on Sausage Street.

There's also a sticker featuring Brian Chu, which I am assuming is another inside joke.

As much as I love stuff like this, I think I'd rather do without anniversary pressings of any record. DO I want to be reminded how long it is since these things came out? Not really. I'd rather carrying on pretending like I'm still in my 20s, thank you very much.