Band members:
Bruce Woolley: vocals (all), guitar (15, 16, 38), occasional guitar (47-58), unspecified (23, 24)
David Birch: guitar (1-13, 17-19, 21, 28, 31, 32?, 33, 35, 40, 42, 44, 45, 47-69), backing vocals (42, probably more)
Rod Johnson: drums (1-13, 17-19, 27, 59-69)
Matthew Seligman: bass (1-13, 27, 38)
Thomas Dolby: keys (1-13, 17-19, 30, 59-69), electric piano (47-58), Roland Jupiter 4 (47-58), unspecified (27)
Trevor Horn: bass (15, 16, 21), keys (15, 16), unspecified (23, 24)
Rod Thompson: keys (15, 16), unspecified (23, 24)
Geoff Downes: keys (21)
Nigel Ross-Scott: bass (28, 31, 33, 35, 40, 44, 45, 59-69)
Nigel Glockler: drums (28, 31, 33, 35, 40, 44, 45)
Simon House: keys (28, 31-33, 35, 40, 44, 45)
Richard Wernham: drums (47-58)
Marion Fudger: bass (47-58)
Mike Howlett: sequencer (38)
Paul Turner: drums (38)
Richard Thompson: cymbalon (45)

Unspecified but presumably Seligman or Ross-Scott: bass (17-19)
Given as unknown: bass (42), drums (42)

Produced by Mike Hurst (1-14, 21), Trevor Horn (16, 17, 25), John Wood (28, 31, 33, 35, 40, 44, 45), Mike Howlett (27, 36, 38)
Mixed by Ben Darlow (14, 26, 33, 35, 41), Wood (45); mix enhancements by B Darlow (34)

(47-58) recorded live at High Wycombe Town Hall, 6 May 1979, by Steve Warren
(59-69) recorded live at My Father's Place, Long Island, USA, 25 March 1980

Compilation by Woolley/Birch/Andy V Smith
Project coordination by Danny Keene
Design by Paul Sizer/Chris Richards/Dan Woolley
Layout by Keith Davey
Mastered by Nick Watson (CD1, CD3), B Darlow/Woolley (CD2)
Sleeve notes by Lois Wilson with Woolley

The liner notes are somewhat incomplete, but I have done my best to sort through the material and included details from elsewhere.

Tracks:
All tracks by Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club unless otherwise specified.

CD1—English Garden

1. "English Garden" [Woolley]
2. "Video Killed the Radio Star" [Downes/Horn/Woolley]
3. "Dancing with the Sporting Boys" [Woolley]
4. "Johnny" [Woolley/Horn]
5. "No Surrender" [Woolley]
6. "Flying Man" [Woolley]
7. "You Got Class" [Woolley/Stuart Gent]
8. "WW9" [Woolley/Dolby]
9. "Clean Clean" [Woolley/Horn/Downes]
10. "Get Away William" [Woolley/Birch/Dolby]
11. "Goodbye to Yesterday" [Woolley]
12. "Goodbye to Yesterday - Reprise" [Woolley/Birch/Dolby/Seligman/Johnson]
13. "You're the Circus (I'm the Clown)" [Graham Adcock/Woolley]
14. "News (Eden Studios)" [Woolley/Adcock]
15. The Killers: "No Surrender" [Woolley/Thompson, but credited just to Woolley on the original single release]
16. The Killers: "Killer on the Dancefloor" [Woolley/Thompson]
17. "Clean Clean (US Version)" [Downes/Horn/Woolley]
18. "Video Killed the Radio Star (US Version)" [Downes/Horn/Woolley]
19. "Goodbye to Yesterday (US Version)" [Woolley]
20. Bruce Woolley: "Bobby Bad" [Woolley]
21. Bruce Woolley: "You're the Circus (I'm the Clown)" [Woolley/Adcock]
22. Bruce Woolley: "You Got Class (Soundsuite Studios)" [Woolley/Gent]
23. Bruce Woolley: "Going to the City" [liner notes list this as Downes/Horn/Woolley, but the narrative section says it was written by Woolley/Thompson/Horn, which seems more likely]
24. Bruce Woolley: "Needletime" [Woolley/Thompson/Horn]
25. Bruce Woolley: "Sugar Daddy (8 Track Demo)" [Woolley]

CD2—Polaroid – Snapshots of Sound:
26. "I Set Fire to You" [Woolley]
27. Bruce Woolley: "Ghost Train" [Woolley/Dolby]
28. "Killer on the Dancefloor (Olympic Studios)" [Thompson/Woolley]
29. "Trouble is" [Birch/Woolley]
30. "Only Babies Can Fly" [Woolley]
31. "All Real Americans" [Woolley]
32. "Morning Shadows" [Woolley]
33. "Ghost Train (Olympic Studios)" [Woolley/Dolby]
34. "All at Once" [Woolley]
35. "Warning Shadows" [Woolley]
36. Bruce Woolley: "Blue Blue Victoria" [Woolley]
37. Bruce Woolley: "1000 MPH" [Woolley/Guy Woolley]
38. Bruce Woolley: "The Black Girls Understand" [Woolley]
39. Bruce Woolley: "Ghost Train (Club Mix)" [Woolley/Dolby]
40. "How Do You Say Goodbye?" [Birch/Woolley]
41. "Too Late for Tears (Demo Version)" [Woolley]
42. Bruce Woolley: "Blue Blue Victoria (Demo Version)" [Woolley]
43. Bruce Woolley: "You Got Class (Revox Demo)" [Woolley/Gent]
44. "News (Olympic Studios)" [Woolley/Adcock]
45. "House of Wax" [Woolley/Birch]
46. "Radio Pictures (Bye Bye Love)" [Simon Darlow/Woolley], not listed in the liner notes

CD3—In Concert
47. "You're the Circus (I'm the Clown)" [Adcock/Woolley]
48. "You Got Class" [Woolley/Gent]
49. "Too Late for Tears" [Woolley]
50. "Clean Clean" [Downes/Horn/Woolley]
51. "The Problem" [Horn/Woolley]
52. "Goodbye to Yesterday" [Woolley]
53. "Johnny" [Horn/Woolley]
54. "Video Killed the Radio Star" [Downes/Horn/Woolley]
55. "No Surrender" [Woolley/Thompson]
56. "Dancing with the Sporting Boys" [Woolley]
57. "News" [Adcock/Woolley]
58. "Flying Man" [Woolley]
59. "You're the Circus (I'm the Clown)" [Adcock/Woolley]
60. "News" [Adcock/Woolley]
61. "You Got Class" [Woolley/Gent]
62. "Trouble is" [Birch/Woolley]
63. "Johnny" [Horn/Woolley]
64. "Get Away William" [Dolby/Woolley/Birch]
65. "Dancing with the Sporting Boys" [Woolley]
66. "I Set Fire to You" [Woolley]
67. "No Surrender" [Woolley/Thompson]
68. "English Garden" [Woolley]
69. "Video Killed the Radio Star" [Downes/Horn/Woolley]

Notes: Tracks (14, 22-26, 28, 31-33, 35, 40-44, 45, 47-69) were previously unreleased. (1-13) is the original album English Garden, although some of the writing credits are different to the Rewind CD edition of the album. (14) was recorded at the same time, but not used on the album. It was mixed for this release by Ben Darlow (who I presume is related to later Buggles member Simon Darlow). (41) is described as having been found with the tapes for English Garden, so is presumably from the same period.

(43) was recorded in 1975. (15, 16) is a 1978 single by The Killers. (20, 21) is a 1979 Bruce Woolley single, also previously released on the 2009 expanded version of English Garden. (27, 39) is a 1981 Bruce Woolley single, also previously released on the 2009 expanded English Garden. (36, 37) is a 1981 Bruce Woolley single, also previously released on the 2009 expanded English Garden. (A Swedish cover of (36) by Magnus Uggla, under the title "IQ" and with new lyrics in Swedish, was very successful, making #2 on the Swedish singles chart. It was included on his 1983 album Välkommen Till Folkhemmet.) The co-writer on (37) is Bruce's brother. (45, 34) is a 1980 Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club single, also previously released on the expanded English Garden. (29) is a 1980 single.

(47-58) were recorded live in 1979. (59-69) were recorded live on tour in the US in 1980 by WLIR radio.

After growing up in Loughborough and playing in various bands, Woolley moved to London in 1976 and was hired as a songwriter by publishing and production company Everblue Music, run by Alex Everitt. He started co-writing with Rod Thompson, while Trevor Horn became the in house producer. Neither Horn nor Downes were signed as writers at Everblue, but they worked there in a session capacity, according to Woolley. Woolley and Horn started writing together. Their first song was "Clean, Clean" and "Video Killed the Radio Star" soon followed. (51) has no description in the liner notes, but the songwriting is credited to Woolley and Horn, so presumably the song dates to the same time. Woolley's live introduction to the track seems to say that the song is some sort of continuation to the story in "Clean, Clean". "Baby Blue", a hit for Dusty Springfield in 1979, was co-written by Horn, Downes and Woolley in this period too.

Financed by Tina Charles, Woolley, Horn and Geoff Downes demoed "Video Killed the Radio Star" in 1978. Charles also provided backing vocals. Horn, Downes and Woolley were all in Charles' backing band. However, Woolley left the nascent Buggles. (22) and (25) were demos at Everblue from around this time (Woolley notes (22) was before the Camera Club was formed). (20) got A&R boss Muff Winwood to sign Woolley to CBS.

(23, 24) were co-written and demoed by Woolley, Rod Thompson and Trevor Horn for a punk rock musical called "Killer on the Dancefloor". Another song for this musical was the titular "Killer on the Dancefloor". According to Woolley in a Nov 2024 interview with the Strange Brew podcast, Horn "became obsessed with" the song, spending months and months working on it. Horn wouldn't finish it and the studio bills put Everitt out of business. Everitt couldn't get a deal on it, so he sold the masters to Henry Hadaway and his Satril Records, who edited the tracks. Woolley had asked his name not be put on the tracks when they were sold, thus the new label came up with The Killers as a band name. This led to the 1978 single "Killer (on the Dance Floor)" (16), backed with "No Surrender" (15). The versions that were released were "[b]rutally edited", Woolley describes. Thompson and Pip Greasley later staged the musical at Leicester Phoenix Theatre in summer 1980.

Woolley formed the Camera Club in 1979. He was joined by his old school friend Dave Birch (Woolley had dated his sister), who had been playing guitar in punk group The Vibrators. Birch brought along Richard Wernham (a.k.a. Ricky Slaughter), who drummed in The Motors. Wernham's girlfriend Marion Fudger joined on bass; she had played in a pre-Vibrators band called Lipstick, as well as in The Derelicts and in The Art Attacks. Finally, Dolby joined on keys. It is this line-up on tracks (47-58) and the punk sound of this live band is one of the most interesting parts of the release. Woolley had signed to Mike Hurst and Chris Brough in spring 1979, who signed him to CBS Records. CBS Records provided funding that allowed for touring. The band toured in support of XTC and the recording here was only their third or fourth gig. The show was recorded by XTC's sound engineer.

The band recorded their only album, English Garden, released 1979 by CBS. They went into the studio with Wernham and Fudger, but Hurst wanted Fudger sacked, and Wernham followed his girlfriend out. In came Seligman and Johnson. The album included Woolley's versions of "Video Killed the Radio Star", "Clean, Clean" and "Johnny on the Monorail" (in a very different version called "Johnny") that were later included on The Buggles' The Age of Plastic. The first public outing for "Video Killed the Radio Star" was on the Camera Club's 1979 tour plus a Jul 1979 Radio 1 appearance by the band, although The Buggles got their version released sooner. Ultimately, Woolley feels the Camera Club were "overshadowed" by the success of The Buggles' version.

(17-19) were re-recordings for the US release of English Garden. (30) was recorded at the Soundsuite Studios, one of the last with Dolby on keys. I presume it fits somewhere around here in the chronology. (41) seems to be from the same sessions.

By the 1980 tour, Seligman was replaced by Nigel Ross-Scott. Thompson went "off the rails" while touring, according to Birch, and tried to strangle Dolby on the flight back to the UK. Dolby left the band; he'd already set his eyes on working with Lene Lovich instead. Johnson was sacked. Nigel Glockler, later of Saxon, GTR and Asia, joined on drums, while Simon House joined on keys. The band started recording a second album under producer John Wood at Olympic Studios, but CBS refused to release the album. A version of "I Set Fire to You" was recorded during these second album sessions, but the version of the song included here as (26) is an earlier demo. (29) was the last single CBS released under the Camera Club name, before dropping the band. Its b-side was (34), here with mix enhancements by B Darlow. The previously unreleased second album material has been mixed for this release by B Darlow. With the second album not coming out, there was no money coming in and the band split up.

(1) references The Beatles "I am the Walrus". (4) was loosely based on "our carefree experiences as Mecca Circuit Night Club musicians!", Woolley explains in the liner notes. (5) was influenced by Woolley's parents' divorce. (7) was written in 1975 with Woolley's first lyricist partner, Stuart Gent (a.k.a. Stuart Lennon). Graham Adcock was a later lyricist from Loughborough. (9) is described by Woolley as a "dystopian, Ballardian adventure", inspired by a sound engineer. Horn and Woolley had travelled to Bangkok as part of Tina Charles' backing band and the sound engineer was a "crazy Vietnam veteran". For (12), Woolley describes as a "diplomatic (but ultimately misguided) attempt to redistribute some writing royalties to the guys in the band". (25) was Woolley's first demo of this song, and he describes being "Trevor Horn's vocal guinea pig" for the recording. He re-recorded the song on three subsequent occasions with three different producers. (27) was recorded after the Camera Club split up, with Mike Howlett, formerly of Gong, producing. (45) was influenced by Joy Division's "Love will Tear Us Apart". (46) has songwriting credits given, but isn't listed or described otherwise; the title comes from iTunes data. (HP, 25 Nov 24; updated 1 Dec 24)