Dubversive featuring Boy George - Demographics (1997)

In 1995 Boy George released the rock-driven album 'Cheapness And Beauty', which moved away from the electronic sound of his previous records, and gave us some rock-oriented tracks with a glam-rock edge. One of the reasons he cited for this change in style was the fact that he was revisiting his teenage years while writing his autobiography, 'Take It Like A Man', which was released around the same time as the album. The record peaked at number 44 in the UK album chart, and the single taken from it, 'Same Thing In Reverse', became a Top 30 hit in the US. Having got that out of his system, in 1997 he started a new project, joining up with two long-time musicians, John Themis and Ritchie Stevens, and forming a group named Shallow, which was later changed to Dubversive. The original idea was to make music which incorporated trip-hop, dub and reggae, but despite one single released in 1998, which was a multi-mix version of the Junior Murvin classic 'Police And Thieves', and which featured Mica Paris, the project was not picked up by any major labels, and so it was quietly abandoned. Before that happened, however, the trio went into the studio and recorded an album's worth of material, which was then shelved, with some of the songs later being included on the 2002 Culture Club Box Set. The album is best known as the 'Dubversive' album, but the original title was to have been 'Demographics', and so that's what it's called for this post of an extremely obscure part of the Boy George discography. 

Track listing

01 Police & Thieves
02 Armageddon 
03 Hiroshima 
04 Shoreline 
05 Run Run Run
06 Children 
07 Righteousness 
08 I Could Be Someone 
09 Petrified