this time on the Invisible Hands label. This album was remarkable in that lead singer Broad was the sole artist to appear on the recordings, having played all musical instruments and sung all of the vocals. In spite of this, the full original line-up played at the accompanying gigs. In a more recent rare foray into the mass-media, their song "Last Day" was used on the Hollyoaks soundtrack on 24 January 2006, the band having signed a deal with the programme in 1997 allowing them to use material. Their fourth album, Dad's Weird Dream, was released in Japan on 11 September 2006. However, the decision was taken to remix it for the UK market, where it was released on 4 December 2006. One track, "Fallen" was remixed by Nigel Godrich, working with the band for the first time since their debut, and was available as an iTunes exclusive EP. Unlike its predecessor, the entire original line-up has participated in the recording, although Sayce is only credited with backing vocals, as the band used programmed drums for the album. In June 2009, Broad uploaded "The Pain Don't Come So Easy", which he describes as a "new Silver Sun song", to YouTube under his user name, "lordmelbury". In December of that year, he released a new track, "Access", as a digital only download on iTunes. Between August and October 2011, James Broad posted four songs on his SoundCloud page, under the user name "lordmelbury", and these, too, are in the Silver Sun style. In April 2012, Silver Sun released a live, digital album containing songs from their first two albums titled Live! - More Than You'll Ever Need, and in August 2013, they released a fifth studio album, also a digital-only release, A Lick and a Promise. James Broad was listed as the sole songwriter and performer. It contained one song that had previously been available on YouTube, "The Pain Don't Come So Easy", and two on James Broad's SoundCloud page, "Little Wonder" and "Small Town Affair". The original line-up of Silver Sun reformed to support Sleeper at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London on 2 December 2017. James Broad died of cancer in October 2020. Discography Studio albums Live albums Compilation albums Extended plays Singles Contributions 2006 – Asian Kung-Fu Generation presents Nano-Mugen Compilation 2006 (with "Bubblegum") References External links James Broad's SoundCloud page Britpop groups English power pop groups