- The album Our Secrets Are The Same was recorded between July
and August 1999. Chrysalis quickly selected Jeweller To The Stars
and Space as potential single material. But the financial concerns with the company,
and of its parent EMI, put the album and single on hold until the next year.
- Gary Wilkinson, producer of Badly Drawn Boy and Sophie Ellis Bextor,
was first commissioned to produce a single mix. He booked time at Sarm Studios in London in March 2000 to work on a new mix of Space.
- This was followed up by another session in April 2000, this time with Phil Bodger at the controls, remixing
Jeweller To The Stars at Whitfield Street Studios.
- The album was eventually shelved after disagreements between the record company and Simple Minds and so the
single was cancelled.
- A 12" acetate featuring a radical reinterpretation of Alive And Kicking
also surfaced from Whitfield Street in 2000. This was assumed to be part of the aborted single and suggested
Chrysalis were considering issuing the new material backed with contemporary remixes of older material – the same strategy as
the previous Neapolis single campaign.
- Nothing else has ever surfaced and both Phil Bodger's and Gary Wilkinson’s remixes remain unreleased.
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space/jeweller to the stars: quick reference
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Space/Jeweller To The Stars |
Chrysalis |
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| | Space | [Gary Wilkinson Single Mix] | (5:43) |
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| | Jeweller To The Stars | [Phil Bodger Single Mix] | (3:30) |
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| | Alive And Kicking | [Acetate Remix] | (8:32) |
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