DUBSTAR at 30: This Is My Home 2026 Reprint
With the magic of twenty first century technology, THIS IS MY HOME has finally been moved 90% of the way towards what it always was: Lush 1990s Dreampop with a healthy dash of melancholy and Jungle Drums. Enjoy!
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DUBSTAR at 30: This Is My Home 2026 Reprint
An intervention was required, but never came.
The three songs that were recorded included swearing, a six minute long tribute to Henryk Górecki and this, a song buried in digital grit. Until today.
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DUBSTAR at 30: This Is My Home 2026 Reprint
And hanging out with elderly gangsters in cellar bars (The fabulous VATs bar, sorely missed). Is there a flaw in this plan? Nah, it’ll be alright…
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DUBSTAR at 30: This Is My Home 2026 Reprint
...by releasing three new songs that were recorded in an actual bath tub. Oh, and let’s stay in a forgotten pub in Hove (The Iron Duke) and do all our work next door at Steve’s who’s currently living in an ex-brothel.
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DUBSTAR at 30: This Is My Home 2026 Reprint
Want a window into the madness of DUBSTAR in the 90s?
We were at the height of our powers so we celebrated throwing everything into the air by moving to the other end of the country then followed up our latest appearance on TOTP...
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DUBSTAR Archive: Special February bonus release tomorrow!
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DUBSTAR Archive: Special February bonus release this Friday!
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DUBSTAR's Steve Hillier on his knees!
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DUBSTAR Archive: Special February bonus release this week!
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DUBSTAR's Steve Hillier back in one of the studios where Disgraceful was laid
18.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0DUBSTAR's Steve Hillier back in one of the studios where Disgraceful was laid
18.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0DUBSTAR's Steve Hillier back in one of the studios where Disgraceful was laid
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DUBSTAR at 30: The return to Chapel Studios
Thirty one years ago we recorded half of the first Dubstar album ‘Disgraceful’ at Chapel Studios in rural Lincolnshire. It was quite a trip that began with a MASSIVE legal problem and ended with a life changing trip to Skegness.
DUBSTAR at 30: Loppen in Christiania
It was 30 years ago this month that Dubstar first played in Denmark at this incredible venue. There are many stories I could tell about that night, some details of which I only learned years later from Solveig Sandnes and her friends who attended.
NEW MUSIC from DUBSTAR's Steve Hillier out today!
06.02.2026 12:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0NEW MUSIC from DUBSTAR's Steve Hillier out today!
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DUBSTAR at 30: Song No.9 2026 Renovation
Now, thanks to the magic of modern technology, the 1995 recording has been carefully cleaned, enhanced, and revitalized. Thirty years on—and for the very first time—Song No.9 finally sounds exactly the way it was always meant to. Enjoy!
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DUBSTAR at 30: Song No.9 2026 Renovation
Originally tucked away as a humble B-side on the CD single of Not So Manic Now, Song No.9 has gone on to become one of the finest and most enduring tracks Dubstar ever released.
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DUBSTAR Archive: Coming Soon!
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DUBSTAR at 30: MANIC the Blog Post!
So If you need a distraction from the Christmas afterglow and New Years Eve dread, read the story of how NOT SO MANIC NOW opened a world of opportunities for Dubstar thirty years ago!
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DUBSTAR at 30: MANIC the Blog Post!
Twixtmas isn’t just for eating leftovers and Netflix frustration, in the 1990s it was the best time for a breaking band to release their big single!
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DUBSTAR at 30: Not So Manic Now GDR demo
I’ll be putting up a blog post with some background gossip when I’ve cleared Christmas from my kitchen, so in the meantime sit back and enjoy this never before heard version of one of Dubstar’s seminal hits:
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DUBSTAR at 30: Not So Manic Now GDR demo
This demo, recorded with Graeme Robinson in his back room in Darlington, is the reworked arrangement of our version of the Brick Supply song. It’s very similar to the single, and Sarah’s vocal is outstanding in all senses.
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DUBSTAR at 30: Not So Manic Now GDR demo
Merry Christmas/New Year perineum everyone! It was on this day exactly thirty years ago that we released Not So Manic Now, the song that would take us into the Top 20 for the first time and our debut on Top of the Pops just a week later
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A song a day #1450
Stephen Hillier - The Chimes of Christmas
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A song a day #1450
Stephen Hillier - The Chimes of Christmas
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DUBSTAR Archive: Merry Christmas!
But today, it felt right to return to the most popular Dubstar release of the year: WINDOW PAIN — the song that was to mark the act’s comeback in 2013.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
With love, DUBSTAR Archive
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plus the release of the original GDR demo of NOT SO MANIC NOW on 27th December 2025, exactly thirty years to the day since Manic first came out as a single in 1995. Watch out for that as the Boxing Day blur subsides.
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DUBSTAR Archive: Merry Christmas!
It’s been a busy year at the Dubstar Archive and 2026 is shaping up to be even bigger. We’ve got another dozen previously unheard Dubstar songs on the way,
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DUBSTAR Archive will return with NOT SO MANIC NOW on Saturday December 27th!
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