THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE
There’s a lot more to come from the label’s catalogue…
Vashti Bunyan
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HE Autumn Stone is just the latest in an ongoing series of Immediate reissues overseen by project manager Rob Caiger. “Having spent years tracking down tapes and masters, then going through what Kenney had – Small Faces and Faces and a lot of sessions that he did for other Immediate artists – we started to build up this catalogue,” he says. “So we’re now in a position where we can basically present the whole of Immediate.” While there are (sadly) no more undiscovered Small Faces nuggets in the vaults, there is plenty of unheard Humble Pie material (mostly recorded live in America), a whole series of multi-tracks for Billy Nicholls’ 1968 cult classic Would You Believe – earmarked for a boxset – unreleased PP Arnold sessions featuring Mick Jagger, rarities from Marianne Faithfull, Rod Stewart and Fleetwood Mac, plus a ‘lost’ Vashti Bunyan compilation that includes “I’d Like To Walk Around In Your Mind” with Jimmy Page and Big Jim Sullivan. As for reissues of original Immediate albums, Caiger is planning remastered vinyl editions by the likes of Duncan Browne, Twice As Much, The Nice and Humble Pie. “It’s going to be artist-led where possible, because they still have their material in their own archives,” he says. “And we’d like to do seven-inch singles boxsets to mark the 60th anniversary of Immediate. Everything you can imagine, basically. It’s very exciting.”