Party Day: Recordings

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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
Row The Boat Ashore* / Poison	Party Day	FX 301	7” single	July 1983
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
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, My Heroine, Let Us Shine, Smile*	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
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

"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.

The Bootlegs

The Demos

Internet Auctions

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.