The October 14th 2017 installment of Cherry Red Records' Residents email newsletter was sent to subscribers with the subject line "I Am A Resident... Are You?? The Residents launch a new Pleadge campaign and unleash 80 Aching Orphans - a new 4CD anthology for Friday The 13th 🎩".
The below text has been transcribed from a copy of the original newsletter kept in the personal archives of a Mysterious Spanish Lady.
The newsletter
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So who are The Residents, and what’s happening with them right now?
Well, I just found out I AM A RESIDENT – check out the Pledge campaign for the forthcoming new Residential release and contribute your version of a Residents tune. Polish those panpipes, retune those steel drums and drag that synthesiser down to the repair guy - you gotta be in it to win it and stand a chance of featuring on the Eyeball Entities’ next album. There’s also a little teaser for INTRUDERS – another new set of songs – in there too… find out more here!
But, before you hit the studio, check out this promo clip for 80 ACHING ORPHANS – the brand new collection of Residents oldies, goldies, live diversions and rarities. Featuring eighty slices of juicy Rez pie across four CDs - including all your favourites and a handful of new curios - and compiled by the band themselves and a couple of dozen of their closest friends, this hardback book package is sure to set your season off with a bang. The signed copies are all sold out, but hell – sign them yourselves, ask a stranger to do it, send a copy to The Cryptic Corporation and see if anything comes back…. What’s the difference?
And you may like to know that the first two releases in The Resident’s PresERVED series of reissues are in production as we speak. That's MEET THE RESIDENTS and THE THIRD REICH 'N ROLL as you’ve never heard them before – 2CD sets remastered from the original tapes and featuring more unreleased outtakes and weird stuff than even The Residents realised they were sat on, along with singles, live recordings, offcuts and whatever else they can squeeze in there. Watch the skies for an official announcement this November, and more to follow throughout 2018. Seriously – these are going to be great. Trust me, you’re going to love The Residents so much you’ll be tired of loving The Residents. We’re going to win, The Residents are going to win and it’s going to be great. We’re all going to be great
