Colourfield – The Very Best Of

Having left the Fun Boy Three at the end of their 1983 US tour, Terry Hall went straight into forming his next group, The Colourfield. Teaming up with former 2Tone labelmates Toby Lyons and Karl Shale (The Swinging Cats) for the band, The Colourfield launched on legendary UK TV music show The Tube, with their debut single The Colourfield in January 1984 and followed up later with their second single Take. Their debut album followed in early 1985, which contained the hit single Thinking of You, as well as subsequent single Castles In The Air. Later in the year they released a couple of non-album singles, I Cant Get Enough of You Baby and Things Could Be Beautiful (produced by longtime friend, musician/producer Ian Broudie).

By the time of their follow-up album, 1987s Deception, they had dropped to a duo. Launched with a cover of the Sly & The Stone classic Running Away and produced by Richard Gottehrer (Blondie, Go Gos, Scritti Politti), the album fared less well and its final single was a cover of the Bobby Hart/Tommy Boyce track She, made famous by the Monkees.

This RSD Black Friday release collects those singles and others, on 140g Trans Blue vinyl.