1998 - Calendar
9 February: EP - Masquerade 3 March: 21st John Peel Session - Calendar, Touch Sensitive, Masquerade, Jungle Rock 18 October: 22nd John Peel Session - Bound Soul One, Antidotes, Perfect Day, Shake Off "It was a very good month last week" More than four months after it appeared on Levitate, Masquerade was released as a single. Depending on whether you picked up CD1, CD2 or the 10 inch single (or all three) you had three versions of the lead track plus various extra songs. I've been warming to Masquerade since listening to Levitate and it's head and shoulders over most of the tracks that accompanied it. Calendar, co-written with Badly Drawn Boy , has its merits but Ivanhoe's Two Pence and Scareball don't do it for me while the live versions of Ol' Gang (MES sounds like he's in a different room to the group) and Spencer Must Die are for the completists. The first John Peel session of the year was recorded in February and saw the light of day i