The Week Never Starts Around Here (Deluxe Edition)

The DELUXE EDITION features a fourteen track second CD with Arab Strap's first ever Peel Session (from March 1997) with guest appearances from Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch and Chris Geddes! In addition to the Peel Session there is also Arab Strap's debut live performance recorded in all its full, ramshackle glory for the Peel Show in October 1996.

After gate-crashing the Britpop party in 1996 with The First Big Weekend, Arab Strap went on to produce eight albums (six of them on Chemikal Underground) over a period of ten years. Reflecting now, over a dozen years after the songs were initially recorded, we can start to appreciate just how influential Moffat and Middleton's output actually was. Favorites of Conor Oberst, Underworld and Helena Christiansen, they are regularly cited as primary influences for bands like The Twilight Sad and, in Aidan Moffat's lyrics, they shone a light under the rock of sexual politics with so much truth, honesty and insight that, had it not been for the fact they were so funny and, well. . . accurate all the time, we would have been barely able to look. This reissue explores Arab Strap's recorded material from their beginnings: debut album The Week Never Starts Round Here, originally released in 1996.