In the midst of all the Saint Etienne re-examination I did a while back, I forgot to mention a few things. First off, the Saint Etienne MySpace page contains a preview of the Mervyn Day soundtrack, “Sugarhouse Lane.” It’s a short instrumental piece of ear candy; can’t wait to see what the full soundtrack brings. Second, YouTube is a goldmine for videos and live performances, including this fantastic festival performance of “Goodnight Jack,” a Live with Jools Holland performance of “La Poupee Qui Fait Non,” a chat and performance of “Filthy” at V2000, and finally the oddity of Saint Etienne closing out a British breakfast show at Halloween with “He’s On The Phone.”

Finally, there’s “Angel,” a track that falls in the lengthy transition period between 1994’s Tiger Bay and 1998’s Good Humor. Released as a radio single in 1996 and presumably intended to promote the double remix album Casino Classics, “Angel” had been in the works for a while but seemed to be a track that wouldn’t quite come together properly. On the fan club odds-and-ends release Nice Price, you can hear the original mix from 1995 that the band appear to still be quite fond of. According to the liner notes of Nice Price, no one else seemed to appreciate it as much as they did. In hindsight, what their original mix really needed was a good edit; at seven minutes long, “Angel” just took too long to get to the beats, distracted as it was by the electronic noodling at the beginning. Trim all those bits off and pump some vitamins into the remainder and you get this mix by Bristol house duo Way Out West, a lesser-known but still essential Saint Etienne track.