Featuring all Fire Engines Codex Communications/Pop: Aural recorded output.
Plus the two 1981 John Peel BBC Sessions, the latter featuring tracks unavailable elsewhere, and essential live recordings including Fire Engines debut live performance at Leith Community Centre, the bands memorable appearance at 1980s Why Does The Pope Not Come To Glasgow? Edinburgh Fringe and one of the bands legendary 30-minute sets at Edinburgh Valentinos captured during the summer of 1981.
And a track from the 2004 reformed Fire Engines; influencers now covering the influenced with 2004 Mercury Prize Winners Franz Ferdinands Jacqueline.
With a 32-page illustrated booklet with extensive sleeve notes by accomplished writer Neil Cooper together with a recent interview with all four original members (Davy Henderson, Russell Burn, Murray Slade, Graham Main).

Fire Engines life as a band might have been over before it had barely begun, but the punk sired Edinburgh bands short life blazed with incident and colour. Boredom or Fire Engines You Cant Have Both went the legend. The small and imperfectly formed back catalogue they left in their wake sounded like they had crawled out of a cellar and come blinking into the inner-city light in a parallel universe somewhere between Leith Walk and CBGBs. Boredom wasnt an option. Edinburghs incestuous inter-band family tree also included crossovers with The Flowers and Boots for Dancing, both of whom released singles on Bob Last and Hilary Morrisons Pop: Aural label. Following the release of their debut single Get Up and Use Me / Everythings Roses on the Codex Communications imprint Fire Engines too found a home with Last and Morrisons post Fast Product label.Now remastered from Bob Lasts original master tapes together with two accompanying John Peel Sessions, Chrome Dawns is the definite Fire Engines artefact including the 7 inch Candyskin / Meat Whiplash now regarded as a classic; the mini album Lubricate Your Living Room as a wilfully perverse objet dart; and the 12 Big Gold Dream best remembered by some for its sleeve. Despite such limited output, Fire Engines had a rich history the brevity of their lifespan doesnt do justice.