You'll not see much Record Store Day coverage on Musos' Guide as, having personally been pretty disgusted by the pricing a couple of years ago & the susbsequent overloading of the release schedule with Aerosmith etc. repressings it strikes me personally that it's lost its way somewhat. Sci-Fi Steven of bis clearly captures that impression, however, so it seems only fair to publicise the fact that the band have compiled their early EPs onto one album for this year's event. RSD 2015 is on Saturday April 18 & i Love bis is limited to 1000 copies.

Steven had this to say:- "I'm proud to be part of Record Store Day as I still believe the initial concept revived the ailing music retail sector. I also firmly believe that the records bis have released as part of Record Store Day are in the mould of the original concept - either new unreleased material, hard-to-find back catalogue or deluxe vinyl editions with previously unreleased recordings. What has turned many against RSD is the pointless picture disc editions of songs released a million times that hammer at the hardcore collector's lust for completion, usually released by one of the big labels stamping their boots all over the day. It should be independent music on independent labels for independent stores, not an overnight endurance test followed by disappointment and harrowing ebay discoveries. All we have done is put together a nice package of our old EP's plus some unreleased demo's and pressed as many copies as we think we could sell. That was surely the idea of the day in the first place."

The double LP package on red vinyl combines all the early, hard-to-find EP's, from 1994's debut Transmissions On The Teen-C Tip! through to 1996's Bis vs. The DIY Corps and also includes the previously unreleased 'Nation Go Yeah! (Home Demonstrations)' – a 24 minute medley, 4-track recordings from 1993-1996.

The full track listing is as follows:-

Hamburg's Reeperbahn Festival has in the last week released its initial list of acts appearing at the 2015 event (September 23 - 26). Maintaining its renowned international flavour those named include performers from Austria, Britain, Iceland, Holland, home town boys Trümmer  and Finland in the shape of Mirel Wagner (with further Finnish acts definitely featuring following the event's partnering with Music Finland to showcase talent from there).

In full then the list of so far confirmed acts playing in and around the infamous Reeperbahn in St. Pauli is as follows:-

Ambassadeurs, Weval (Live), Vök,Adam Angst, Tom Liwa & Flowerpornoes, Tropics, Gabriel Rios, Nessi, Oso Leone, Young Kato, Bombay, Cristobal and The Sea, Eva & Manu, Zentralheizung of Death des Todes, Human Abfall, Abramowicz, K-X-P, Isolation Berlin,Milliarden, Martin Kohlstedt, Robb, Loifoir, Wanda, Sóley, Dotan and Rag 'N' Bone Man.

Ticket information (89 euros for the entire for day event) and other details can be found on the event website here.