On November 25th EMI will release Magazine: The Complete John Peel Sessions which features 15 tracks taken from four different John Peel sessions recorded between February 1978 and January 1980.

The tracklisting is:

1. Touch and Go #
2. The Lights Pour Out of Me #
3. Real Life (Definitive Gave) #
4. My Mind Ain’t So Open #
5. Give Me Everything $
6. Burst $
7. I Love You, You Big Dummy $
8. Boredom $
9. TV Baby %
10. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) %
11. Permafrost %
12. A Song from Under the Floorboards ^
13. Twenty Years Ago ^
14. Look What Fear’s Done to My body (AKA I Love You Because You’re Frightened) ^
15. Model Worker ^

# 02.14.78 session
$ 07.24.78 session
% 05.08.79 session
^ 01.07.80 session

In other Magazinal activity, the Manchester band is reforming to play a run of shows in early 2009.  The original lineup of Howard Devoto, Dave Formula, Barry Adamson and John Doyle will be joined by an as yet unnamed replacement for guitarist John McGeoch who passed away last year.

02.12.09 – London, England – The Forum
02.13.09 – London, England – The Forum
02.14.09 – Manchester, England – Academy 1
02.16.09 – Glasgow, Scotland – Carling Academy
02.17.09 – Manchester, England – Academy 1

Here is tv footage of the classic Shot By Both Sides…