In news that will delight pale, sullen types the world over, the UK reissue label Renascent have set the date for the release of their four Comsat Angels reissues as Mon 3rd April 2006. They include repackaged versions of the Sheffield gloom-merchants’ first three studio albums Waiting For a Miracle, Sleep No More and Fiction and the collection of BBC sessions Time Considered As A Helix of Semi Precious Stones.

There’s a very good Q & A with the band on the Renascent Website’s Comsat Angels section, which reveals among other things the full story behind the Sleep No More drums-in-a-lift-shaft thing and that Steve Fellows likes 50 Cent.