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Sunnyboys - Sunnyboys 45th Anniversary Vinyl Box Set

Box set include

• 4 x 12” vinyl
  
• 32 page booklet
  
• 8” x 10” promo photo, original band bio, 
  
• Fan Club membership card
  

Sunnyboys classic 1981 debut LP reimagined as a 4LP box set!

·       The original album with bonus track Tell Me What You Say and a 1981 Triple J interview with Jeremy and Peter Oxley spliced between track to give the listener a whole new listening experience and perspective.

·       The 17 track 1981 New Kicks demo session on vinyl for the first time

·       The remixed 1981 yellow EP. Includes the original recording of Alone With You

·       The full 1981 Triple J ‘Live at the Rocks’ set from the Governors Pleasure, February 1981. Released on vinyl for the first time.

·       Pink and grey transparent vinyl!

·       32 page 12” x 12” full colour booklet charting the rise of Sunnyboys through 1981 via archival press clippings, venue ads, rare photos and reviews

·       The original Mushroom records press release

·       The original Mushroom records promo photo

·       A 1981 band Q&A

·       Sunnyboys Fan Club membership card.

"A GREAT ALBUM BY A GREAT BAND"

So read the Mushroom records promo back in 1981. They weren’t wrong. That the Sunnyboys eponymous 1981 debut was an instant and enduring classic has never been in doubt. And now that great album by a great band is available in box set form.

The original September 1981 release has not just been remastered but now an includes an extra track; Tell Me What You Say, only available initially as a bonus track on a limited edition 1981 yellow vinyl issue of the debut. Additionally, the remastered album now features a 1981 Triple J interview with Jeremy and Peter Oxley spliced between the tracks giving the listener an entirely new listening experience and perspective.

Albums 2 & 3 of this 4 x 12” box set release include the Studio 301 demos recorded earlier in that same year. Raw and alive they capture just the band’s 2nd foray into the studio and it is electric! 

Side 2 of disc 3 meantime, features the band’s 1980 debut 4-track in its 1981 remixed form including the original version of the all-time classic Alone With You.

Finally on disc 4 we get the long lusted after first-ever-vinyl-release of the Triple J live recording of the band in full flight at Sydney’s Governors Pleasure in February 1981.

“At times, some shows crossed the threshold into magic. There were a few times, a handful at best, when it was so strong I would have sworn there were five of us on stage. I don’t know what that extra person was or what they played, I just felt an extra presence on stage that was playing a part in all we did, and that part was adding to the intensity, the strength, the joy and the moment. One of those shows was the JJJ live to air recording at the Governors Pleasure in February 1981”. Richard Burgman

All up this 4 album set includes 44 tracks, 25 different songs in album, demo and live form, 19 of them having never before been released on vinyl while 14 of them do not feature on the album proper and all bar 3 of the 25 written by singer-guitarist Jeremy Oxley in the previous 12 months when he was just 18-19 years old. Enough material to fill two studio albums and all of it top shelf.

Also included is a 32 page 12” x 12” full colour booklet detailing the rise of Sunnyboys throughout 1980-1981 via a series of archival press clippings, gig listings, promo artwork and reviews, an original 8” x 10” promo photo, the original Mushroom records press release, a personal band Q&A from the time PLUS a bonus Sunnyboys fan club card.

“We were always after world domination and Australia is the world to me.. so I’m grateful that we haven’t been forgotten !” – Jeremy Oxley

See the Sunnyboys live! When they perform a special one-off appearance Oct 23 at Brisbane’s Roma St. Parklands. Special guests The Clouds, vSpy v Spy and Mick Medew and the Ursula 4. Tickets via feelpresents.oztix.com.au

Tracklist:

1. I Can't Talk to You
2. My Only Friend
3. Trouble in My Brain
4. Gone
5. It's Not Me
6. Happy Man

1. Alone With You
2. Tunnel Of Love
3. Liar
4. Let You Go
5. I'm Shakin
6. Tell Me What You Say

1. I Can't Talk to You
2. Tunnel Of Love
3. Physical Jerk
4. Gone
5. Thrill
6. I Don't Want You

1. Guts Of Iron
2. Individuals
3. Catch My Heart
4. Strategy Idol
5. My Only Friend
6. Happy Man

1. New Kicks
2. Tomorrow Will Be Fine
3. I Wann be Alone
4. Let You Go
5. I'm Shakin

1. Love to Rule
2. The Seeker
3. Alone With You
4. What You Need

1. Alone With You
2. What You Need
3. I'm Shakin'
4. Tunnel of Love
5. I Don't Want You

1. Happy Man
2. I Can't Talk to You
3. The Seeker
4. I Wann be Alone
5. Let You Go
6. Thrill

This item will ship on Nov 6, 2026, however due to supplier delivery delays, this date may change. Items that are ordered together, will ship together.