Just One More Chance: Anthology 1965-1968 [2CD] features Leeds based cult mod band The Outer Limits’ complete recordings including their rare, sought after pop soul singles When The Work Is Through and Just One More Chance plus freakbeat flip Help Me Please and the psychedelic pop gem Great Train Robbery.

Featuring 14 previously unreleased demos from the vaults of The Outer Limits’ singer songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist Jeff Christie was the one who has lovingly compiled this set.

Alongside the recordings from their three singles; When The Work Is Through originally issued on an impossibly rare 1965 Leeds Students Charity Rag flexidisc, Just One More Chance released in 1967 on Deram and Great Train Robbery recorded for Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham’s Immediate label in 1968, there are 31 nuggets unearthed here that were recorded in the same time period.

The hard-working band paid their dues playing legendary venues such as Liverpool’s The Cavern, Newcastle’s Club Gogo and Sheffield’s Mojo and these impressive songs prove they would have made a great album if given the chance.

Jeff Christie, who later found fame with the band Christie that topped the charts in 1970 with Yellow River, has been newly interviewed for the booklet notes by MOJO magazine’s Lois Wilson.

Disc One:
1. When The Work Is Through
2. My Baby Loves Me*
3. Anna *
4. She Said *
5. Just One More Chance (Demo) *
6. Misery *
7. But Not For Me *
8. Sweet Freedom (Demo) *
9. Great Train Robbery (Demo) *
10. The Dream (Version 1) *
11. Time Stands Still *
12. Chinatown *
13. Chinatown (Instrumental) *
14. Keep On Dreaming *
15. Someday Somehow *
16. Help Me Please
17. The Dream (Version 2)
18. Just One More Chance (Single Version)

*Previously unissued

Understandably, Jeff Christie will forever be associated with the country pop rock smash hit Yellow River which hit the top spot across the globe in 1970. However, his career in cult sixties band The Outer Limits and subsequent releases demonstrate that to pigeonhole him would be to greatly underestimate one of the most talented songwriters of the era.

The new collection opens on the formative psych pop sounds of When The Work Is Through, the massively underrated tune My Baby Loves Me and the pleasing to hear Anna and then we get brought forth the vibrant She Said, the infectiously riffed title track of this set Just One More Chance (Demo), the forlorn rock of Misery, the free flowing pop rocker But Not For Me and both the pleasing pop of Sweet Freedom (Demo) and a languishing Great Train Robbery (Demo).

Along next is the confident sound of the band clearly evident on the first version here of The Dream, the gentle psych rock of Time Stands Still, a rocking Chinatown (and then its instrumental version), and a rousing Keep On Dreaming, and then we get their flexing musical attributes showcased on both the brilliant Someday Somehow and the forceful Christie-written Help Me Please, the first disc rounding out on their second version of The Dream and the single version of Just One More Chance.

Disc Two:
1. Great Train Robbery (Single Version)
2. Sweet Freedom (Single Version)
3. Stop
4. Everything I Touch
5. Any Day Now
6. See It My Way
7. Funny Clown
8. Listen
9. Paper Jake
10. Days Of Spring
11. Epitaph For A Non Entity
12. Man In The Middle Of Nowhere
13. It’s Your Turn Now
14. Dancing Water
15. Look At Me
16. Run For Cover
17. Mr. Magee’s Incredible Banjo Band
18. Tomorrow Night

By the dawn of the seventies, Jeff had played in bands throughout the past decade and had already released classic singles as lead singer and songwriter of The Outer Limits including the aforementioned Just One More Chance and the track that opens this second disc, their languishing cover of Great Train Robbery.

Along next is the rambunctiously poppy Sweet Freedom (Single Version), the melodic Stop and the reverberating Everything I Touch and then we get the hard nosed piano points that drive Any Day Now, the rhythmical See It My Way, the Beatles-esque Funny Clown and both the enjoyable Listen and the old school vibe of Paper Jake.

Along next is the languishing Days Of Spring, the psych-pop of Epitaph For A Non Entity and the mid-tempo rocker Man In The Middle Of Nowhere and then we get the effervescent It’s Your Turn Now, the trippy pop sounds of Dancing Water, the early Mod sounds of Look At Me, the preppy rock of Run For Cover, the set rounding out on the funtastic sounds of Mr. Magee’s Incredible Banjo Band, closing on the absorbent Tomorrow Night.

The band played alongside almost all the big sixties acts, including the famous 1967 tour with Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, before their disintegration was captured in the television documentary Death of a Pop Group in 1969.

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