The Coral are asking you to admit to your cassette compilation mistakes and send your old mix-tape crimes to them in an anonymous amnesty, with a chance the band will return your tape cleansed of its sins. Dig around in those old boxes of cassettes and send in collections of saccharine love songs given to you by unwanted admirers and tunes chopped abruptly before a radio DJ cuts in. It’s time to put these tapes out of their misery.

The fifty most offensive cassettes will be recorded over by the band, replacing the old tracks with their new album, ‘Distance Inbetween’ (released March 4th). The reformed cassettes will then be returned to their owners.

“Home taping didn’t exactly kill music, but we know it caused some horrible collections of music to be compiled, so it’s time for an amnesty, now is the time to dig into drawers, cupboards and boxes and admit to cassette crimes, or offer up the bad decisions of friends, relatives and lovers who made tapes that should never, ever be heard again.’’ – James Skelly.

Send them to The Coral, PO Box 29479, NW1 6GG with your full name, a UK return address and contact details, plus a note fully explaining the history of the cassette in question.

• Submitted cassettes cannot be returned to their owners if they are not one of the fifty selected.
• In the event that submitted tape quality is too poor to be re-recorded then a new cassette copy of ‘Distance Inbetween’ will be sent.
• The fifty re-recorded/replaced cassettes will be sent at an unspecified date following the UK release of ‘Distance Inbetween’.
• All cassettes are sent at their owner’s risk, expense and discretion and The Coral/Ignition Records can take no responsibility in the event that any cassettes are lost or damaged.
• Only one tape entry per person.