The Comeback Special (Live) The The

• 1 Global Eyes (Live) 05:46
• 2 Sweet Bird of Truth (Live) 04:19
• 3 Flesh & Bones (Live) 03:48
• 4 Heartland (Live) 05:29
• 5 Beat(En) Generation (Live) 04:18
• 6 Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) (Live) 05:30
• 7 A Long Hard Lazy Apprenticeship (Live) 00:41
• 8 We Can't Stop What's Coming (Live) 04:05
• 9 Phantom Walls (Live) 04:33
• 10 Love Is Stronger Than Death (Live) 05:00
• 11 Dogs of Lust (Live) 03:42
• 12 Helpline Operator (Live) 04:26
• 13 This Is the Night (Live) 03:50
• 14 This Is the Day (Live) 04:17
• 15 Soul Catcher (Live) 05:24
• 16 Bugle Boy (Live) 03:53
• 17 Beyond Love (Live) 04:40
• 18 Slow Emotion Replay (Live) 04:09
• 19 Like a Sun Rising Thru My Garden (Live) 04:07
• 20 Infected (Live) 04:49
• 21 I've Been Waiting for Tomorrow (All of My Life) (Live) 06:26
• 22 True Happiness (Live) 04:08
• 23 Uncertain Smile (Live) 09:52
• 24 Lonely Planet (Live) 05:56
• Total Runtime 01:53:08

Info for The Comeback Special (Live)

What started as an unforgettable live experience, and one of the band’s first performances after 16 years, now turns into an extraordinary live album, film & book as Matt Johnson’s London-based Cinéola label teams up with Hamburg-based international label, earMUSIC for a series of exciting and exclusive releases.

The Royal Albert Hall concert was the first of a trio of London shows — the others taking place at Brixton Academy and the Troxy — all of which sold out within minutes of going on sale.

Performing live for the first time in 16 years with a headline appearance at Denmark’s Heartland Festival a few days before the Royal Albert Hall concert, the rejuvenated THE THE, which featured previous members James Eller on bass, DC Collard on keyboards and Earl Harvin on drums and new member Barrie Cadogan on guitar alongside Matt Johnson, would go on to play sold-out shows and make festival headline appearances across the globe throughout 2018.

“Part comeback, part requiem, all extraordinary” – James Hall, The Telegraph

“Johnson’s great achievement is to have made a body of work that is completely original, yet flows smoothly into the slipstream of accessible, socially conscious alternative rock.” – Will Hodgkinson, The Times

“Johnson retains a gravel-voiced gravitas, and his band are taut and kinetic on barbed missiles such as ‘Armageddon Days (are here again)’… THE THE really shouldn’t leave it 16 years until their next tour.” – Ian Gittins, The Guardian

“THE THE sound very much like a band revitalized… Johnson may not have sung publicly for years, but there’s little doubt he’s been practising his scales in private.” – Jeremy Allen, The Independent

THE THE

The The
Founded in 1979, the band has been a guarantor for unique, prescient, fevered songs that resonate with basic truths about the human condition and seem to exist beyond the perishable dictates of fashion and style. Getting worldwide attention with the most critically acclaimed album of the year, 1983 ʼs synth noir classic "Soul Mining", The The finally made their global breakthrough in 1986 with their album "Infected" which featured two of the band’s groundbreaking political singles "Sweet Bird Of Truth" and "Heartland".

Matt Johnson continues to deliver music that speaks to a patiently waiting audience, music of today and the future, and after focusing on solo projects for over 20 years now finally makes the big step back into the limelight with The The.

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