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Titles |
Record Label |
Cat. No. |
Format |
Release Date |
Taster* |
Party Day on– ‘Real Time 5’ |
Unlikely Records |
No.5 |
cassette |
March 1983 |
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Row The Boat Ashore* / Poison |
Party Day |
FX 301 |
7” single |
July 1983 |
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Rabbit Pie* on ‘Giraffe in Flames’ |
Aaz |
Aaz 001 |
12” Compilation LP |
January 1984 |
|
Rabbit Pie |
Band-It, Germany |
No.14 |
Cassette Magazine |
March 1984 |
|
Spider* / Flies |
Party Day |
FX 302 |
7” single |
April 1984 |
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Athena* on ‘Four Your Ears Only’ |
Play it Again Sam. Belgium |
BIAS 02 |
12” Compilation EP |
Summer 1984 |
|
Opium Gathering on ‘Raw Red Heat’ |
Flame Tapes |
FLAME 1 |
Compilation Tape |
Autumn 1984 |
|
Glasshouse |
Party Day |
FXLP 401 |
12” Vinyl LP |
1985 |
|
Glasshouse, |
Rouska |
Come 1T |
12” single |
October 1985 |
|
Spider on– – ‘Raging Sun’ |
Rouska |
RANT 01 |
12” Compilation LP |
1985 |
|
Spider on– – ‘Raging Sun’ |
Rouska / Flame |
RUSK 006 |
Cassette (promo) |
1985 |
|
Borderline on ‘Bites and Stabs’ |
Torment |
TOR 001 |
12” Compilation LP |
1985 |
|
Simplicity |
Party Day |
PDLP 501 |
12” Vinyl LP |
1986 |
|
Let Us Shine on ‘Torn in Two’ |
Torment |
TOR 002 |
Compilation LP |
1986 |
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Let us Shine on 'Zarah Leander's Greatest Hits' |
Rouska |
CONCORD 18CD |
Compilation CD |
1987 |
|
Atoms* on 'Strobelights Vol.3' |
Strobelight Records, Austria |
STROB 020 |
Compilation CD |
2006 |
|
Atoms on– ‘Return of the Batcave’ Vol. 1 (CD 2) |
Internet Only |
n/a |
Compilation CD |
2008 |
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"Fall down on bended knees and hope for compassion"
2015: Party Day Records gets a new listing, within They Could Have Been Bigger Than EMI: A discography of now defunct independent record labels that released vinyl (3rd edition Part 1 - Europe) Fall 2012
Many thanks to Mick Mercer and his review of Strobelights Vol.3 and his unfailing interest and support of Party Day.
The recently unearthed first Party Day release on the Real Time 5 compilation cassette was a stop gap while the first single was being put together. It seemed a good idea at the time, to keep the momentum rolling forward. Do any copies still exist? There can’t be that many.
Unless anyone else wants to release some Party Day material, then this is it so far . . . but who knows what the future reveals.
Here is the most comprehensive list to date of Party Day’s musical output, and it includes Bootlegs, Demos and what’s on the web auction sites… crumbs is there nothing sacred!.
Simplicity album: And here’s a great advert and recommendation - Best Kept Secrets (June 2008).
Compilation Sleeves shown below
In addition, while I was searching the web, it was weird to find certain tracks being for sale on amazon and itunes, most notably due to the IDA, there was Rouska’s Raw Red Heat compilation tape.
Glasshouse album: gets a ranking of 32,514 in the ‘Best Ever Album’s of all time’ list, as it shows in three lists on their site. So considering the millions of records produced, that can’t be that bad. (March 2016). Also ranked 93 in the ‘Top 100 Greatest Post-Punk Albums’ (site: Best Ever Album's Ever).
Raging Sun Cassette Promo
The Bootleg Section is as complete as it can be of the early period, but there maybe later material that will surface - that’s if Dean has or knows of anything gathering dust from the later period. So listed in this section are a set of dusty recordings, containing a collection of raw material, which grasped the beauty and passion of Party Day live, along with a few radio interviews - 'Party Day Speak!' no less. And a few sound bites. So stand up and enjoy the white knuckle ride that was Party Day.
The Demos’ Section has meant a bit of a trawl through the dusty archives of those heady early days, but it was worth it.
Compilations: Party Day have appeared on a few of these over the years (like ‘Band-It’ No.14). So if you want to know more about them - here is the compilations track list, showing what else was on the product.
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