Colin Potter’s First Six Albums Reissues, Reissued
10.14.14 by Mike Haley

Unless you have the reflexes of a cougar, and/or a gold plated internet connection, you probably were not one of the lucky sixty people who snagged Colin Potter’s “The First Six Albums” cassette set late last month. Reissues of the Nurse With Wound / Current 93 contributor’s long gone solo recordings from the early 80’s (“The Ghost Office”, “Two Nights”, “The Where House?”, “Here”, “The Scythe”, and “A Gain”) came and went in about an hour. Well, it looks like you’ll have a second chance to snag all six tapes, as another edition is being made available.

From Integrated Circuits:

“Due to the upsurge in interest in the cassette format, ICR goes back to it’s roots with a limited edition of Colin Potter’s first six tapes from the early 80s – The Ghost Office, The Scythe, Here, The Where House?, Two Nights and A Gain. The set is priced at £28.00 plus postage. This was a special release for Cassette Store Day (September 27th) so most of the copies went to other dealers. There were only 60 of each, but we had a small number to sell directly. The edition of 60 sets sold out within a few hours, which was a real surprise. Boomkat took a batch of them and sent out a very nice enthusiastic mailout about the release to their very substantial list of customers, which resulted in them selling out very quickly. A large number of those customers then went to the ICR website to reserve a set and before we knew it we had loads more orders than we could fulfill. After discussing the problem with various people, the decision was made to do another run of copies, which will have different coloured artwork. Apologies if this annoys anyone, who may only wish to buy this as an extremely limited edition, but hopefully the people who genuinely want to get hold of these tapes so they can listen to them will understand. If anyone who has already bought them is offended by this ‘breach of contract’ then we will be quite happy to offer them a full refund. The extra money we will make from the additional copies will not, be assured, go towards financing a luxury lifestyle. There are some new releases from ICR that can now move forward. We’ve even decided to release another cassette of unreleased and rare tracks! So if you still wish to order the set, please email colinpotter@icrdistribution.com to reserve one and we’ll email you back with shipping and payment details.”

So there ya go. Email Colin Potter, reserve a copy, and for £28.00 + shipping (about $45 + shipping) all will be right in the world. Feel free to stream a few tracks while you wait.