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“Cashmere If You Can” is now available in the Double Whammy, Best Of Both Worlds format – which means that you can now get the SMMC version, with all the digital content previously available from Saturday Morning Music Club, as well as the physical CD Digipak, to have and to hold.

We will deliver the SMMC App to you immediately, where you can access all 37 songs in the original release, and we will post you the “Cashmere If You Can” digipak CD – which now include the lost track “Goldfish”.

The Difford Double! Get it while you can.

We at SMMC and Squeeze Towers, after an autumn of r&r (research & relentless development) – are more than delighted to be able to announce that in the very near future we will be launching 2 incredibly exciting initiatives based around the awesome SMMC App, and of course our flag-waving standard bearers, SQUEEZE.

In association with our friends at Fred Perry, and their fantastic Sub-Culture website, we will be bringing you an “up close and personal” so intimate it should come with a personal space warning. Every single day of the tour, resident video blogger and occasional drummer Simon Hanson will be bringing us his unique take on the tour happenings, in the form of a short movie ….. delivered direct to the SMMC Subculture App.

Along with this, Captain Alice will be bringing us the Captain’s Blog – the diary of a tour manager. Alice will give us her insight and stories and experiences of how its going on the road, and is even threatening to throw in some pictures.

And finally – the inimitable and incomparable Chris Difford will be bringing us his bird’s eye view of the tour, daily – with Diff’s Pics, his choice of documentation from his very own camera.

All brought to you by Fred Perry Subculture. Every Day throughout the tour.

We aim to please.

Another exciting announcement to follow.

We have been literally inundated with orders for the Ltd Edition signed and numbered CD of “Cashmere If You Can”.

True to our word these originals will NOT be remanufactured, as we move on to finished CD copies with new artwork. We are running out fast – so now’s the time!

It finally time for us to be able to tell you that as per SO MANY requests, the official CD release of “Cashmere If You Can” has been confirmed for mid November. The CD will come with brand new artwork, in a lavish digipak.

The CD will be made available very exclusively – at the merch stands on the Squeeze tour, and direct from this website, and the Squeeze website.

We will also be releasing a new SMMC version of full album, with the new artwork.

Chris is delighted. So are we.

And we hope you will be too.

John Bentley says …..

Well, its all gone a bit manic … the You-Tube film of Pulling Mussels on the Late Show with Jimmy Fallon has had over 35,000 hits! (ouch) … Fame at Last! … Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! (megalomaniac having a laugh)But thats NOTHING! …. Check this out …..

On Wednesday Squeeze played a ‘secret’ gig in Bryant Park – bang slap in the middle of New York…. Bang-Slap? ..  Is that a combination of Bang Bang & Slap ‘n’ Tickle!?

So how come there were thousands of people there if it was a SECRET gig – I hear you ask?

Well – SoMeBoDy must’ve let the cat outa the bag…… BIG-TIME!

Anyway, there I was .. or should I say – there we was – doin’ our thing AND being filmed by the Artists Den!

Who? …. Oh some big-shot Internet Public TV Company with a lotta dough …. But what a show! ….

The gig was probably the best gig ever  -  since the Big Bang – Bang,  and all the hipsters & shicksers of New York turned out to see us… Phew!  ….. I wish I’d been there!

(from Bentley’s Blog on “Spot The Difference” Pre-Order App)

Today sees Chris with Squeeze in Columbus, Ohio, playing the first date of their US tour.  But don’t worry – its business as usual for Saturday Morning Music Club as we get ready to launch Chapter 4.

This week’s installment of Cashmere If You Can sees a song very personal to Chris – the story of his father going off to World War 2. “Sidney Street” is a touching and rousing piece of music with an anthemic chorus.  To counter balance it there is also a surprisingly “Barry White–esque “ number, and a great live acoustic rendition of a Squeeze classic.  With our special guest appearance from the wonderful Chris Sheehan, the total number of songs so far will climb to 19!

Along with the live video performance of “On My Own (I’m Never Bored)”, photos old & new, and the lyrics and notes from Chris, its another week of bumper fun and frolics all round. We really hope you enjoy it – and if you haven’t joined us yet…. Well, you know the score – we don’t need to say it. (Click Here!)

Our “Spread The Word” scheme is running really well, many members are now part of the virtual promo team – with banners and links appearing far and wide. Our community keeps on growing, we received emails from all over the world last week, and we love finding new ways of introducing people to the club.  Later today our members will receive a separate email with details our latest offer – a Gift Voucher scheme where they can invite up to 5 friends to join with a discount – and still get their “Spread The Word” reward. It just keeps getting better and better.

So that’s it for this week. The big red virtual button in the SMMC Control Room will be pushed at 12.01am South East London time …. We hope you enjoy, or we hope you join us …. Either way, See You On Saturday!