Career-spanning compilation on 2CD or green coloured LP
The Essential Nick Heyward, a new compilation covering Heyward’s solo and Haircut One Hundred material will be released in November.
It will be the first Heyward and Haircut One Hundred compilation since 2009’s 2CD Favourite Songs: The Best Of and the first covering Heyward’s entire career to be released on vinyl (green coloured). This set differs from previous comps by leaning more heavily on Heyward solo material, featuring songs right up to 2017’s Woodland Echoes.
In terms of Haircut tracks, it includes all four of their Top 10 singles – ‘Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)’ (No 4, 1981), ‘Love Plus One’ (No 3, 1982), ‘Fantastic Day’ (No 9, 1982) and ‘Nobody’s Fool’ (No 9, 1982) – as well as two recent reunion singles ‘The Unloving Plum’ (2024) and ‘Dynamite’ (2025), which both featured on the June 2026 album Boxing The Compass. The solo material includes six Top 40 singles, including ‘Whistle Down The Wind’ (No 13, 1983), ‘Take That Situation’ (No 11, 1983) and ‘Blue Hat For A Blue Day’ (No 14, 1983).
The Essential Nick Heyward on green vinyl
The 2CD set offers a significantly deeper dive with 31 tracks, compared to 14 on the vinyl. The release of The Essential coincides with the publication of Heyward’s autobiography Fantastic Days, which is out in November on New Modern books.
The Essential Nick Heyward is out on 27 November 2026 via Demon Music.
Tracklisting
2CD
CD1
Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)*
Fantastic Day*
Love Plus One*
Nobody’s Fool*
The Unloving Plum*
Dynamite*
Take That Situation
Blue Hat For A Blue Day
Whistle Down The Wind
On A Sunday
Atlantic Monday
Love All Day (& Night)
Warning Sign
Laura
*with Haircut One Hundred
CD2
CD2
Over The Weekend
Goodbye Yesterday
You’re My World
Tell Me Why
Traffic In Fleet Street
Kite
He Doesn’t Love You Like I Do
Caravan
The World
Rollerblade®
Carry On Loving
The Man You Used To Be
Today
Stars in Her Eyes
Baby Blue Sky
Perfect Sunday Sun
The Stars
LP
Side A
Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)*
Love Plus One*
Take That Situation
Blue Hat For A Blue Day
Whistle Down The Wind
Love All Day (Single Edit)
Warning Sign
*with Haircut One Hundred
Side B
Over The Weekend
You’re My World
Kite
He Doesn’t Love You Like I Do
The World
The Man You Used To Be (Single Edit)
Baby Blue Sky
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