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Rated 111 releases, average: 4.46
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Danse Society, The - There Is No Shame In Death - 30-May-06 02:35 AM
The original six piece outfit recorded 'There Is No Shame In Death' at 'Royal' studio, Sheffield in late August 1980 and made their second live performance (as 'Danse Crazy'), alongside Soft Cell, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Echo & The Bunnymen, U2, Altered Images & Wasted Youth at the legendary Futurama2 festival in Leeds in mid September.
Immediately thereafter Paul Hampshire (keyboards) and Dave Patrick (bass) quit, leaving a line-up of Steve Rawlings (vocals), Paul Gilmartin (drums), Paul Nash (guitar) and Lyndon Scarfe (synths, keyboards) who then recorded 'These Frayed Edges' during an 8 hour studio session in Stockport, near Manchester - (the strange background sounds in that recording were interference picked up from conversations broadcast by the taxi business's transmitter in the adjacent building)
Shortly before Sheffield entrepreneur Marcus Featherby became the band's manager, a bass player, Tim Wright, was recruited for live shows and he played on January 1981's sessions at RikRak studio in Leeds which spawned the 'Clock / Continent' debut 7".
A few months later Marcus took new song 'Dolphins' plus the two earlier recordings and released a 3-track 12" 'There Is No Shame In Death' / 'Dolphins' / 'These Frayed Edges' with catalogue reference 'PAX2' on his own 'Pax' label.
The initial 200 copies were pressed on blue vinyl and that pressing is the rarest Danse Society item. A tiny number of blue and standard vinyl copies were sent out as promos in either hand folded and stapled versions of the heavy card PAX sleeve or in hand folded sleeves from a contemporary independent label compilation album called 'East Of Croydon'.
The 12" was reissued (in 1982 or 1983?) as SOC121 on Society Records in a factory manufactured sleeve.
Danse Society, The - Say It Again - 30-May-06 02:35 AM
The video for this single was notable for its pioneering use of cameras that responded to sources of heat rather than picking up light-waves, so giving impressionistic colour images that represent the heat signature of the band performing. Sadly this innovative effort was wasted when the promo video was only broadcast on children's tv rather than in the shows that the band's fans watched.
Killing Joke - Wardance - 10-May-06 12:58 PM
A small number of copies from the original Malicious Damage pressing came with a pre-typed folded form comprising military 'call-up papers' to be filled out and submitted by the purchaser. Near mint copies, in picture sleeve with this insert in undamaged condition command huge prices.
Killing Joke - What's THIS For...! - 05-May-06 04:06 PM
reviews that described this album as hailing 'a new brutalism' in music were perhaps a reaction to the dominance of the tribal drumming and hypnotic rhythm patterns that had never had such full expression in the post-punk scene of the time. again killing joke delivered a unique music and sound that would influence musicians for years afterwards.
Killing Joke - "Ha" Killing Joke Live - 05-May-06 04:06 PM
The first Killing Joke recording following the orignal band's implosion in february 1982 the reasons for which were widely reported and remain subjects of debate nearly 25 years later. Punk icon Youth was no longer present, (reports of his being found wandering naked and confused in london streets made the music press and he went on to found 'Brilliant' and tour with Bauhaus), and was replaced on bass by Paul Raven who had previously been seen wearing 'fashionable leopard skin' clothing on the sleeve of a Neon Hearts LP. Raven added a tighter and more sinuous, maybe even 'poppier' side to the band's rhythms, but debatably at the cost of a slight loss to the intensity of the live performances.
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