40 years ago, the English post-punk band A Certain Ratio began recording a cover of a Talking Heads song “Houses In Motion”. At the time, the recording was intended to be a collaboration with Grace Jones. Grace Jones never finished her part and the song got abandoned. Now, the band has finally finished recording the song. The recording was reworked from the original tapes and the final product has a cool funk vibe to it.

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Band member Jez Kerr says this of the recording

It was great to find this lost track and, even though the original idea was for Grace Jones to sing on it, I think this version captures the essence of ACR at their best – when we are being ACR and sounding like no one else

40th Anniversary Happenings

In celebration of the bands 40th anniversary, they will be releasing a new box set titled acr:box that will be availabe on May 3. Pre-orders are available now. The box set includes a brand new acoustic version of the track “Won’t Stop Loving You”, included below. The box set will also include over 20 unreleased tracks and will be available as a signed 7X coloured vinyl set with only 1000 copies in print. A 4X CD set will also be available.

Box Set Track Listing

Singles and B-sides

1 All Night Party

2 The Thin Boys

3 Blown Away

4 Son And Heir

5 Waterline

6 Funaezekea

7 Abracadubra

8 Sommadub

9 Guess Who?

10 Tumba Rumba

11 Knife Slits Water (12″ version)

12 Kether Hot Knives (Mix In Special)

13 I Need Someone Tonight

14 Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing

15 Life’s a Scream

16 There’s Only This

17 Si Fermir O Grido (Touch Cassette Version)

18 Brazilia 6.10

19 Sounds Like Something Dirty

20 The Runner (Greetings Four Version)

21 Inside (Greetings Four Version)

22 Bootsy (Greetings Four Version)

23 Fever 103 (Greetings Four Version)

24 Loosen Up Your Mind

25 The Planet

26 Turn Me on (7″ Edit)

27 27 Forever (Jon Dasilva’s Testimonial Mix)

28 Shack up (Electronic Radio Edit)

Unreleased

29 Houses In Motion (Demo Version 1)

30 Houses In Motion (Demo Version 2)

31 And Then Again (Another version)

32 Piu Lento (John Peel Session)

33 Nostromo A Go Go (Demo)

34 Force (Demo)

35 Backs to The Wall (Demo)

36 The Big E (Demo)

37 Every Pleasure (Demo)

38 Rivers Edge (Demo)

39 Stadium (Demo)

40 Thin Grey Line (Demo)

41 Repercussions (African Mix)

42 BTTW 90 (Demo)

43 Spirit Dance (Demo)

44 Bitter Pill (Never Released)

45 It’s Trippin When I’m Fine (Previously Unreleased)

46 Mello (JD 800 Perc Mix)

47 Tekno 4 an Answer (120bpm)

48 Samba 123 (Demo)

49 Some Day (ACR rework)

50 Happy Meal (Working Title)

51 Flight Won’t Stop (Unfinished Demo)

52 Fruit Song (Unfinished Demo)

53 Say What You Mean (Unfinished Demo)

54 W.S.L.U.

Tour Dates

The band will also be touring to commemorate the anniversary.

APRIL

27th Barrow-In-Furness, Barrow Underground Music Society

MAY

4th London, Islington Assembly Hall



10th Wolverhampton, Newhampton Arts Centre

11th Belfast, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

23rd Liverpool, Phase One

24th – 25th Manchester, Yes

30th Sheffield, Leadmill (steel bar)

31st Newcastle, Riverside

JUNE

1st Edinburgh, Voodoo Rooms

2nd Leamington Spa, Zephyr Lounge

AUGUST

16th We Out Here Festival

17th Green Man Festival

18th County Durham, Hardwick Live Festival

OCTOBER

24th Liège, Belgium, Le Reflektor

26th Den Haag, Netherlands, T’Paard

27th Cologne, Germany MTC

28th Berlin, Germany Columbia Theatre

29th Hamburg, Germany Uebel und Gefrahrlich

NOVEMBER

2nd Dublin, Sugar Club

8th Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach

9th Birmingham, The Crossing Digbeth

15th Stoke-On-Trent, The Sugarmill

16th Glasgow, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut

17th Huddersfield, The Parish

DECEMBER