Long out of print album now completely remastered with an entire disc of bonus material and 20pg booklet of in depth notes by Kevin Jnr & Ellis Clark and unseen photos]

Part of the on-going nikki sudden catalogue re issue campaign Red Brocade is presented in our ‘De Luxe’ card gatefold packaging

Features Jeff Tweedy from WILCO singing lead vocals on two tracks.
 
Nikki Sudden was born Adrian Nicholas Godfrey in London, England. The main influences on Sudden’s music were artists such as T. Rex, the Rolling Stones, the Faces, Bob Dylan and Johnny Thunders. Founder member of one of the U.Ks very first DIY bands the now legendary SWELL MAPS. Following the break-up of Swell Maps in 1980, he started a solo career and also released records with Dave Kusworth as the Jacobites.

Sudden collaborated with, among others, Mike Scott and Anthony Thistlethwaite of the Waterboys, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, The Golden Horde as ‘The Last Bandits’, Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones, Rowland S. Howard, Jeremy Gluck of the Barracudas, Metrophase, Joey Skidmore, Ian McLagan of Small Faces and the Faces, Phil Shoenfelt, Baron Anastis van Hustler, Big Sleep, Al DeLoner of Midnight Choir, Tom Ashton of the March Violets, members of R.E.M. and Sonic Youth. The Jacobites’ tune “Pin Your Heart” was covered on the Lemonheads’ 1997 single “The Outdoor Type”.

Having toured the world and released a staggering 15 solo albums plus 2 swell maps albums 6 Jacobites albums and still leaving at the very least 2 unreleased completed albums in the archives

Sudden also wrote for a number of music magazines, such as Spex, INTRO, Mojo, the local Birmingham based fanzine Waxstreet Dive, and Bucketfull of Brains. At the time of his unexpected death, he was writing his autobiography, as well as a history of the Wick (an estate in Richmond once owned by Ronnie Wood, currently owned by Pete Townshend), and was due to perform in London on the 29 March 2006.