If you’re trying to buy The Night on LP or CD, the re-press was ordered on the 4th Jan and PIAS say it should be arriving before the end of the month. There has been a change of staff at PIAS but it should all be sorted soon. Apologies for the delay.

IT'S NEW MUSIC FRIDAY This week, we have new releases and reissues by @bobpetesarah aka Saint Etienne @daftpunk @TheNational @SnoopDogg @tameimpala & Justice @Wilco @wunderhorse and more for you. All new releases here: https://t.co/pq7av5aGLR #newmusicfriday #newreleases

Record of the week! Saint Etienne take us gently by the hand, to sink deep down through the layers of the after-hours and pull tired minds back from the brink of despair. Its architecture is ambient, its lighting low, its surfaces gleaming with infinite possibility

Come down and see Bob and Pete yacking about The Night at HMV Oxford St next Wednesday.

"As an album about being up at night for all the wrong reasons, St Etienne have scored a first. As the party season gets going, as wine and beer add to the insomnia, this soothing album will prove extremely useful." @Willjhodgkinson The Times on The Night:

"This is St Etienne at their most austere and elegant. Rain sounds run through the album and you can feel the neon glow reflected in the streets of these 14 tracks... The Night is classic St Etienne, just presented in ways we’ve never quite heard before."

The Night - a CD and a unique vinyl pressing - will be available to pre-order from our favourite shops on Monday at 10am: @JumboRecords @FiveRiseRecords @TheRecordCafe @RoughTradeRecs, @Monorail_Music, @ResidentRecords and the Heavenly Bandcamp Store.

The Night - a CD and a unique vinyl pressing - will be available to pre-order from our favourite shops on Monday at 10am: @JumboRecords @FiveRiseRecords @TheRecordCafe @RoughTradeRecs, @Monorail_Music, @ResidentRecords and the Heavenly Bandcamp Store.

We’re now also at @bobpetesarah.bsky.social

I'll be going through my Dusty Springfield records on my Patreon page tonight at 7.30, pulling out beautiful b-sides, fawning over French EPs. Norma Tanega gets a mention or two. The door to the Record Room is always open, why not come on in. https://t.co/c0mswLwgV0

Cheap Oasis tickets! On a t shirt or a mug. Available this Thursday only. Get ‘em while they’re hot! https://t.co/R1SkBsW8rZ

L@@K! Cheap Oasis tickets! Here’s a t-shirt, and a mug, which commemorate a brief moment in time that we can safely say will never be repeated. Only available for 24 hrs, this Thursday. Don’t miss! https://t.co/c2OD7IWJVy

New Saint Etienne remix alert!

Carole King's short-lived group The City made just one album - an absolute peach. My Record Room column this week is about her move from New York to LA, taking in Gerry Goffin, Toni Stern, Billy Fury and Dion. Live at 12.45! Like a new Top 40 countdown! https://t.co/c0mswLwgV0

Now Playing: Saint Etienne’s ‘So Tough’ (1993) Extended Edition | Rediscover the album here: https://t.co/iGy9wOJCXH @bobpetesarah @rocking_bob

Please note: if you sign up with @Apple’s Patreon iOS app, as of November Apple will be taking 30% cut of all creator income paid via iOS. Greedy buggers. So don’t use the iOS app.

My Record Room column tomorrow lunchtime is on Saint Etienne’s cover versions - who, why, when and how! Live from 12.45. Follow me on @Patreon for $4-9/month for weekly, twice weekly, or even daily pop larks, delving deep into my collection.

Goodbye Ray Reardon, the first snooker star I was aware of as a kid. Me and Wiggsy ‘formed’ an electro act called Reardon in 1984, in tribute, before we became Saint Etienne.

Sorting out bits and pieces for my stall at Saltaire Record Fair on Saturday. Shop posters for Foxbase Alpha, Pale Movie and Tiger Bay, one for a show in Chicago, and a larger one for our EP with Etienne Daho.

Tomorrow night. No football on. Come along to the Trianhle, Bradford Rd, Shipley, 8-12. Free entry. Quivers down the back bone!