The Rollo Cheeky Standard: News

Latest update: November 17, 1999.
Comments, additions, & corrections to: mattski@mit.edu


Please find Faithless News items on the Faithless page from now on.


The London Suede (the official U.S. name of the U.K. band known everywhere else as Suede) released a single for 'Everything Will Flow' on CD and 12" vinyl in the U.S. on November 16, 1999. The CD includes three mixes by Rollo & Sister Bliss, including the the previously unavailable Rollo Radio Edit (an edit of the Rollo Vocal Mix), the full Vocal Mix and the Dub Mix (previously only on promotional vinyl in U.K). I have not confirmed the U.S. vinyl track listing. The Vocal Mix had already been released in Europe on CD and in U.K. on promotional vinyl. The Vocal Mix came out officially in U.K. on November 8 as a b-side to Part 3 of the CD single release of 'Can't Get Enough'.

The Suede website calls the Rollo Vocal Mix an epic house mix, and it is that, an excellent remix. It is the first Suede remix ever to be made officially available. The Dub retains some vocals to great effect, mainly the title of the song is repeated at intervals established in the Vocal Mix. This is the best Rollo mix in a long time, not counting his work with Faithless.

Rollo produced the very Suede-like song, 'Boy Strange', for the Pet Shop Boys on their "Night Life" album. Hey, Rollo & Sister Bliss, have you got an epic house take on that track lying around?[NOVEMBER 17, 1999]


The Cheeky Records website has opened its Merchandising section for business: lots of cool imprint clothing and accessories for sale. [NOVEMBER 4, 1999]

Pauline Taylor's single, 'The Letter' is due out soon-ish, November-ish. [23OCT98]

Skinny will release their second single, 'Friday', in October/November. [23OCT98]

Thanks to Sjoerd Visser and Branislav Suplata, who have both been sending me much appreciated updates for these Rollo pages. [I've got to set up that acknowledgements page soon.] [23OCT98]

Champion Records and Cheeky Records now have an official web site. [21Sept98]

Rollo and Sister Bliss have remixed Moby's single 'Honey' that came out on 2 CDs and a 12" on August 24 in U.K. [04Sept98]


Dido has a song called 'Thank You' on the soundtrack to the motion picture, "Sliding Doors". She wrote it with Paul Herman of Skinny and produced it with her brother Rollo.

Sister Bliss is featured along with other female DJs in article in late April/early May issue of DJ Magazine.

Skinny released their debut album, "The Weekend", on April 20 in the U.K.

Frankë's 'Understand This Groove' has been released by Mo's [Records?] on April 20, 1998, in U.K. as a white label 12" limited to 300 copies, according to The Dance Music Resource Pages.

According to Ian M on his Hot Trade Tips page, Cheeky Records has been developing tracks for the Trade (a London club) crowd. One of these tracks is Basscamp's 'Find Me A Love', which has been mixed by Knuckleheadz. This may be released on Cheeky Junior or Champion.

Rob Dougan has produced and co-written the song 'Jump' on the Kylie Minogue album due out March 23, 1998 in U.K. The album is already out in Japan. [16 March 98]

Copies of Sister Bliss' 'Badman' CD single from Champion Records (U.S.) have shown up at a Boston store as of February 28, 1998. Is this the first commercial U.S. release of 'Badman'? [02 March 98]

Furious Angels cover art Failure cover art

See the Cheeky Records page for information on the following releases:

Rob Dougan's single for 'Furious Angels' is out March 23, 1998, with an album to follow;

Skinny's first single, 'Failure', is due out March 30.

Rollo and Sister Bliss are interviewed as part of a Faithless profile in the January 1998 issue of Future Music magazine (U.K.). There are interesting details in the article about how some of the members of the group met, how the first and second Cheeky releases came about, and how Maxi Jazz's vocals replaced a Nina Simone sample on the first ever Faithless track that later became Salva Mea.

[Pure speculation: could the first ever Faithless track with the sample of Nina Simone be the white label release known as "The Scream"? Could the November/December 1997 Huff and Herb release on Planet Three Records (that uses a Nina Simone sample) have anything to do the that earlier Faithless track? Is the Huff of Huff and Herb the same Huff (a.k.a Ben Huff) as in Huff and Puff? Questions, I've got questions!] [26 Jan 98]


The Rollo Goes Mystic single, 'Love, Love, Love - Here I Come', was re-released on January 5, 1998, in U.K. on 12" vinyl and later on CD, probably in February. There's a 2x12" vinyl promo kicking around also.

There's a Cheeky Records single by Beatnik called 'From The Dizzy Heights Of Love'. This was mentioned in a chart in DJ magazine, issue 200. It's out on 2x12" vinyl promo. Commercial release had been scheduled for a November 3, 1997, but no word on that yet. [14 Nov 97]

Dusted's 'Deeper River' came out as a single on November 24, 1997 on Cheeky Records. It's a great track with great mixes, all different from version on the soundtrack to the film, "A Life Less Ordinary".

The Rollo and Sister Bliss remix for Black Grape's "Get Higher" single came out October 20, 1997.

According to Musik, No. 30, November 1997, news column:

Mentioned in context of resurgence of 7" singles: "...Rollo's done a secret one-sided white label one as Skinny which is threatening to be massive...".

"...Rollo and Sister Bliss have remixed a forthcoming Black Grape single...".

"...Faithless are to write music for the forthcoming 'Avengers' movie ...". [This movie will star Uma Thurman as Emma Peel, Ralph Fiennes as John Steed, and Sean Connery as the nemesis.]


Sister Bliss has been rated 59 out of 100 in article, "The Best 100 DJs In The World", in DJ Magazine, No. 200, 11-24 October 1997, p. 58. There is a short profile with a picture.


Created January 1997 by Matthew Sikorski, Copyright 1997