Saint Etienne‘s debut album, Foxbase Alpha, turned 25 in September. It was unlike almost anything else at the time, with a crate-digger’s love of pop’s heart and fringes, not to mention dub, ...

THE trend for acts to perform entire albums track-by-track live has been embraced by everyone from Gary Numan, Ultravox, Sparks and The Cult to Manic Street Preachers and even Van Morrison. The latest ...

Saint Etienne have announced that they’re too play their debut album Foxbase Alpha in its entirety at three dates around the UK. The dates will coincide with a reissue of Foxbase Alpha. Support comes ...

With Saint Etienne all set to bring the early '90s nostalgia of their Foxbase Alpha to the stage next week, the dance pop trio have laid out the details of a rather ambitious reissue campaign. In the ...

Saint Etienne have been making and faking history in their own way for more than thirty years. And if we want to tell the story properly, to understand how they first tangled memory up with Memorex ...

THEY say you should never go back. Past glories should stay past. Try telling that to the likes of Manic Street Preachers, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd and Brian Wilson, all of whom have revisited old ...

This isn’t the first time Saint Etienne’s lush, joyous, magnificent debut album has received a rejig and reworking, but who can resist a classic? Twenty-five years on from its initial release, Foxbase ...

Having recently resurrected seminal album Foxbase Alpha for a handful of live shows, St Etienne are getting ready for a short festival tour, including Latitude 2009. Here, singer Sarah Cracknell tells ...

Cosmopolitan pop surviors Saint Etienne are set to re-release two of their LPs-- 1993's So Tough and 2000's Sound of Water-- on August 31 via Heavenly/Universal Music Catalogue. (The band's 1991 debut ...

Saint Etienne are to perform their 1991 debut album ‘Foxbase Alpha’ in its entirety at a series of gigs this May.

For all its down-tempo moments, Saint Etienne’s 1991 debut, Foxbase Alpha, is an album aglow with a pop energy, buoyed by the insistent rhythms of house music and the then nascent trip-hop genre. So, ...