The Bureau

Before the end of 1980, which would have been about the time of the
release of Keep It pt2, the original Dexys spilt - some of them went
onto form The Bureau. Two singles were released in the UK but the
album was only ever released in Canada and Australia.
If you want to know what they sounded like ? - check out the
audio pages for some MP3 files

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UPDATE: NOVEMBER 2004:
OFFICIAL BUREAU WEBSITE

The Bureau - lined up like this
Andy Growcott - percussion
Pete Williams - bass
Rob Jones - guitar/trumpet
Archie Brown - lead vocals
Mick Talbot - keyboard
Paul Taylor - trombone
Steve Spooner - sax
J B Blythe - sax

These are the sleeve notes from the album -
"all together, looking tough and taut, meaning business, working off traditions,
going for the jugular, the bureau have the power. musically you see the connection with
dexy soul vision and the soul itself, but the way it comes out is fiery and original.
breaks on sax that have a wildness wailing back across generations of black american
music - chords that build and build to suddenly BAAAAOWWWW out of the speakers
like nothing you've heard outside of the movies, and archie brown stamping on the
monitors and crying-shouting-testifying"

This is the track listing of my own personal CDR copy of all The Bureau stuff ever released.

Only For Sheep
The First One
Sentimental Attachment
Got To Be Now
Looking For Excitement
Let Him Have It
Find A Way
Bigger Prize
The Carpetbaggers
Helpless
The Noose