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March 1st 1999

From Rocktropolis Allstars by Kevin Raub. REPUBLICA's U.S. album placed on hold. RCA Records has put the Stateside release of REPUBLICA's sophomore album, Speed Ballads, on indefinite hold, according to a spokesperson for the band. The album was originally due in January (Allstars, Aug. 10, 1998). Citing varying tastes between the U.K. and U.S markets, REPUBLICA has opted to re-enter a recording studio in England to lay down two or three new tracks for the album. The band also plans to remix a few existing tracks from the English version of Speed Ballads, which surfaced in the U.K. last October. The remainder of the album will be more or less the same. Speed Ballads was co-produced by Lightning Seeds mastermind Ian Broudie. The first U.K. single, From Rush Hour with Love, was released in September 1998. There was no word at press time which songs would be remixed or when the new version of Speed Ballads will hit stores in the U.S. View the original source.

November 15th 1998

From DeConstruction. REPUBLICA - New single and album. Their long-awaited new material gets it's first release on 21th September, with the new single From The Rush Hour with Love. Their new album Speed Ballads is out on the 5 October. REPUBLICA - Platinum album. REPUBLICA's debut album Republica has just gone platinum. The band were presented with their awards before their sell out gig at the Astoria on Wednesday, October 28th. Their follow up album Speed Ballads is out now and includes the hit single From Rush Hour With Love. REPUBLICA new website now live! The new REPUBLICA website has gone live today (September 24th) at the address http://www.republica.com/. Check out sound bites from their new album there.

November 12th 1998

By Philippe Simoutre (it's me!). MTV Europe Music Awards 1998. On Thursday evening in Milan, for the MTV Europe Music Awards 1998, Saffron and an Italian (I presume) presents the Select Central Award. The winner are Thomas D and Franka Potente for their single Wish - Komm Zu Mir. That day, Saffron was wearing a very nice red dress and jacket that suited perfectly with her hair. I could record this part of the show on an audio tape, so you can listen to the charming voice of Saffron. Listen to Saffron (38secs., 152.0 kB).

November 6th 1998

From REPUBLICA's official website. REPUBLICA release a sparkling new single on November 16th entitled Try Everything. Try Everything will be available on 2CDs and cassette. CD1 features Try Everything, Fading Of The Man and the Westside Story remix of REPUBLICA's last single From Rush Hour With Love. CD2 features Try Everything plus Drop Dead Georgeous and Ready To Go both recorded live at Radio 1's recent big freebie concert in Cardiff. Finally the cassette features Try Everything, which tells the tale of a couple trying to get back together after an acrimonious and drawn out split, is taken from REPUBLICA's latest album Speed Ballads which was released on October 5th. Competition ! Answer this simple question and you could win a signed CD of Try Everything - the new REPUBLICA single released on November 16th! Question : Which venue have REPUBLICA recently played in London? E-mail answers to : republica@bmg-backstage.co.uk

September 21st 1998

From NME Microsite. REPUBLICA release their first new single in over a year on September 21st. Entitled From Rush Hour With Love this is the first single to be taken from REPUBLICA's forthcoming album Speed Ballads which is release on October 5th. From Rush Hour With Love is produced by Ian Stanley, Andy Gray, Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley and is available on CD, cassette and limited edition red vinyl 7" all which feature brand new tracks produced by the band themselves. Tracklistings go like this : CD - From Rush Hour With Love / World Ends In The Morning / Clone My Soul Cassette - From Rush Hour With Love / Clone My Soul 7" - From Rush Hour With Love / House Special Meanwhile, REPUBLICA's second LP Speed Ballads the follow up to last years top 5 LP Republica is released on October 5th. The album has been produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, Ian Stanley, Andy Gray and Ian Broudie. Full tracklisting is : From Rush Hour With Love / Fading Of The Man / Try Everything / Luxury Cage / Faster Faster / Nothing's Feeling New / Millennium / Pretty Girl Hate / Kung Fu Movies / Pub Pusher. REPUBLICA are Saffron - Jonny Male - Tim Dorney

August 9th 1998

From Rocktropolis Allstars by Kevin Raub. REPUBLICA's ready to go with Speed Ballads. REPUBLICA have put the finishing touches on Speed Ballads, the follow-up to their 1996 self- titled debut. The album was co-produced in London by the Lightening Seeds' Ian Broudie, among others. According to a source at RCA Records, the album leaves behind a lot of the dance-oriented techno found on their debut and is a progression that's probably more rock [than REPUBLICA]. The album's first single is undetermined as of yet, but possibilities include Faster Faster, From Rush Hour with Love, and Luxury Cage. Other titles include Try Everything and Nothing's Feeling New. Although Speed Ballads is slated for an Oct. 5th release in Europe, fans on this side of the pond will have to wait untill January. Also, the band has dwindled down from a five-piece to a trio, with Saffron on vocals, Tim Dorney on keyboards, and Jonny Male (who guested on REPUBLICA and has formerly worked with Stereolab and St. Etienne) on guitar. Meanwhile, in addition to serving as the rallying cry for every hockey match in the country, REPUBLICA's breakthrough hit Ready to Go can now be heard on a commercial for the Mitsubishi Galant. Since the commercial started airing on July 26, sales of REPUBLICA have enjoyed a 150% sales increase -- not bad for a 30-second car commercial. View the original source.

April 16th 1998

From BMG. Saffron from REPUBLICA is the new face of Diet Pepsi. Saffron was chosen for her streetwise, confident image. She will lead Diet Pepsi's promotion with high street retailer, Jeffry Rogers. Shoppers receive a free can of drink with the purchase of a garment and received 5% off their next purchase. Instant win cards offer a range of prizes including tickets to the Cosmopolitan show where Saffron will open Diet Pepsi's first catwalk.

March 30th 1998

From MTV. REPUBLICA records new album, taps new drummer. British pop act REPUBLICA is currently working on the follow-up to their 1996 self-titled debut, which brought the group stateside success with the singles Ready to Go and Drop Dead Gorgeous. After a year of touring both the U.S. and abroad, the band has been holed up in a U.K. studio for some time writing and recording their new album, which hasn't been hindered by the recent turnover in personnel. A source in the REPUBLICA camp says that drummer Dave Barbarossa - the man who brought Burundi rhythms to Bow Wow Wow - is no longer with the group and that they are currently working with new drummer Pete Riley. According to the band's official website (http://www.republica.com/), co-founder Andy Todd also left the group at the end of last year to pursue other recording projects, but a replacement for him has not been named. REPUBLICA hopes to have the new record out by the end of '98, but no official date has been set. View the original source.

September 11th 1997

From Rocktropolis Allstars by Miss Truth. According to Select magazine, numerous artists have signed a Greenpeace petition to be presented to British Prime Minister Tony Blair in December, calling for Blair to invest in solar power and stop new oil exploration in the Atlantic Frontier. The artists include Blur, Bush, Manic Street Preachers, Pulp, Suede, Supergrass, Space, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cardigans, and REPUBLICA... View the original source.

June 23rd 1997

From Rocktropolis Allstars by Tina Johnson. REPUBLICA's Saffron is Thrilled to have dress in Hard Rock Cafe. REPUBLICA singer Saffron's longtime wish to have something of hers proudly displayed among the rock and roll memorabilia at a Hard Rock Cafe has finally been granted. Her long silver dress and white shoes from REPUBLICA's video for Drop Dead Gorgeous will soon be shown off in the Chicago Hard Rock Cafe. We had a great night at the Hard Rock, says Saffron. I am absolutely thrilled that my silver dress is going to be displayed alongside memorabilia from the greats of rock and roll. I remember when I was a kid and first went to the Hard Rock in London and thought, Wouldn't it be brilliant if something of mine went on these walls one day, and now they have. Drop Dead Gorgeous is the second single off of the band's self-titled debut album Republica, which was released on RCA Records in 1996. The U.K. single of Drop Dead Gorgeous also features a Way Out West Remix of Bitch, another song off the album, and the original Chemical Brothers dub of REPUBLICA's Out of This World. A spokesperson for RCA says that Chicago was the Hard Rock Cafe of choice because Drop Dead Gorgeous received a lot of airplay on modern rock station WKQX (Q101) in Chicago. View the original source.

May 20th 1997

From MTV REPUBLICA salutes Gary Numan and L7 with help from The Prodigy. When The Prodigy's Fat of the Land album hits stores later this year, fans may notice a familiar voice helping out on an equally familiar tune. I've just done some backing vocals on the new Prodigy album, on a track with Keith (Flint), REPUBLICA singer Saffron told the MTV Radio Network recently. They're very good friends, and I'm very honored that they asked me to do that. So what track brought the two British chart titans together? We did a cover version of L7's Fuel My Fire, Saffron told MTV ( Listen to Saffron : 19secs., 39.5 kB). The voice behind the songs Ready To Go and Drop Dead Gorgeous has also been busy with the rest of REPUBLICA reworking a vintage Gary Numan nugget for an upcoming tribute album to the synth pioneer. We got do Are Friends Electric? with him, so that's a great honor to be asked to do that, Saffron told MTV ( Listen to Saffron : 14secs., 29.8 kB). The REPUBLICA track will appear with contributions from Bis, Magnetic Fields, The Orb, Pop Will Eat Itself, St. Etienne, and Jesus Jones on the collection, due this month. View the original source.

October 29th 1996

From Rocktropolis Allstars. Tricky, REPUBLICA, The Prodigy are Fashionably Loud. Tricky, REPUBLICA and The Prodigy are Fashionably Loud MTV's Fashion/Music special tapes Wednesday, airs in February. For the second year in a row, MTV's House Of Style will present Fashionably Loud, a rock and roll/fashion special, which this year features Tricky, REPUBLICA, and The Prodigy. The artists will perform three songs each, while models donningclothing by Versace for Tricky's performance, Vivian Westwood for The Prodigy's set, and Ana Molinari for REPUBICA's songs prance aroundthe stage. (REPUBLICA's Saffron, by the way, recently recorded L7's Fuel My Fire with The Prodigy forpossible inclusion on the latter band's next album). Last year, the Fashionably Loud artists were Coolio, Elastica, and Filter. Fashionably Loud tapes Wednesday, Oct. 30, and is scheduled to air in February 1997. View the original source.

October 10 th 1996

From Rocktropolis Allstars by Carrie Borzillo. REPUBLICA does L7 for The Prodigy. Longtime friends Saffron (of the rock/techno amalgamation called REPUBLICA) and The Prodigy have been working together for The Prodigy's next album. Saffron sings backing vocals on a cover of L7's Fuel My Fire for the album, due in the spring on XL/Mute. It was great, I got to sing, or really shout, with Keith (Flint), says Saffron, whose old band N-joi used to open for The Prodigy back in the day. It's a great song. We had a brilliant laugh doing it. I was really honored that they asked me to do it. REPUBLICA, whose single, Ready To Go, from their self-titled debut album is all over alternative rock radio now, are on the road with Gravity Killsthrough the end of October. They head back to the U.K. for a holiday before returning to the U.S. for a West Coast tour in mid-November. Saffron says she's having a blast on their first U.S. outing : People are crowd-surfing and moshing. In England, they don't do that for us. We've got girls running up onstage here and everything. In somewhat related news, believe it or not, Bow Wow Wow has a greatest hits album coming out on RCA Records on Oct. 29 th. The hits? I Want Candy, Go Wild In The Country, and Do You Wanna Hold Me?, along with 19 other hits. The related part? REPUBLICA's drummer is Dave Barbarossa - you got it, the former drummer of Bow Wow Wow. View the original source.