I went to see Bane play in London a couple of months ago. It had been ten years since I had last seen them play, and in betweem they had played a last show and broken up for good... and then got back together a couple of years ago. Following their reformartion, Equal Vision have been busy repressing their records, with three of their four albums having been repressed on multiple different colours of vinyl. There were so many copies of the the first two LPs made that I took the decision to not bother trying to collect them. And just like that, twenty five years or so of trying to collect every version of every Bane record came to an end. However, that doesn't mean that I'm never buying another Bane record. Far from it...
When I saw that the city series 7"s had been pressed as a 12" for the first time, I decided to pick up one copy and leave it there. The decision on which version to pick up was made pretty easy, as the band had some copies for sale on tour, so I just grabbed one at the London show. It was sealed, and you can probably imagine my thoughts when I opened it up to find this crazy colour combination.
I'd arranged to do a trade at the show with Ralf. Well, not so much a trade, but an exchange. I'd been storing a few items for him at my house, and he had repaid the favour, and there was an opportunity to exchange everything at the show. I'd actually forgotten that one of the records I was getting was another Bane record, being a test press of the ten year anniversary pressing of the fourth LP, 'Don't Wait Up' on End Hits Records.
I'm pretty happy to have this one as I have somehow managed to lose the original test press of this one on the same label. I don't think that I have ever lost any other record other than that one, and over the last few years it has driven me absolutely crazy. I'll probably never know what happened to it, so this is a fair replacement for that gap on my shelf.
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