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Thanks to those charming lads at Optic Nerve Recordings, Party Day have released the Complete Collection, Limited Edition, SORTED! (Available as double Vinyl,  double CD and digital).

Features both LP’s, the singles, the EP plus several demo tracks.

Release dates:

• CD  - 25 Sept 21 / Digital  - 22 Oct 21
• Vinyl - Major supply problems has pushed the release date back to mid-to late Jan 2022

Previous uploads included:

• There is now a SORTED! Reviews Page, with the following;

• Fear and Loathing Fanzine Review of Sorted! (Jul-Dec 21)
• FATEA Magazine review, also seen in Time Past and Time Passing Review - Sorted! (Oct 21)
• Pulse Alternative Magazine
• Louder than War and  [distributed to MimicNews, 192kb.com and Melody Maker Magazine]    
• RPM Online
• Vive Le Rock
• Whisperin and Hollerin

• Barnsley Chronicle notice the bones of Party Day Rising (Oct 21)
• FamousFix.com provides an Essential list to the Post Punk Groups of Leeds. And Party Day are included. (Oct 21)
• Name checked again for the Sheffield Festival Against Unemployment (Sept 1982), this time on Leadmill’s History page
• Live Review found from Leeds Student magazine, of Party Day at the 1983 fringe Festival
• Kiss the Carpet fanzine and a chart listing from Dec 1983
• Sheffield’s fanzine Wagging Tongues interview (late 1983)
• Chicken Wardance fanzine No.2 (July 1983)
• Barnsley Chronicle feature heralding the last incarnation of the band, and its raw move to punk (1988)
• Glasshouse LP review from New Wave & Post-Punk Reviews WordPress Dutch site (2018)
• Advert from Leeds Student for La Phonographique gig, May 1983
• Dig Vinyl in Liverpool, selling The Spider for £10.00 (2020)
• Wakefield’s Tongue In Cheek fanzine, (July 1984) PD interview - Let’s have A Party (Day!)
• Whippings & Apologies interview (1983)
• Time for a new video from sdtfoto. It’s been a while. This time it’s the one and only . . . Atoms. Go to YouTube Page - hope you like it

• Darkwave Trivia: 25 Interesting Facts about the Music Genre! . . . And the band gets a mention (May 2017)
• Club Playlists: L'Heure du Loup at Meilleurs, Voeux brought in the new year with the ‘Atoms’ (Jan 2016)

• Streaming Radio Shows:

• Michael Mulholland’s fantastic and enthusiastic Junkyard Radio Show - with a Party Day 1 hour Special featuring 12 tracks. Melbourne (21st Oct 21)
• MMH Radio - Heresy with Adz Radio Show with ‘Row The Boat Ashore’ (Oct 21)
• C86 Radio show. Interview with Carl Firth. He speaks! [Audio file] to David Eastaugh (Sept 21)
• Alternative Frequencies Rock Show with Kat. E plays ‘The Spider’ (27 Oct 21)
• Different Noises Blog - Aural Delights on the Overflow No. 86 airs ‘Rabbit Pie’, plus a brief summary of the band, and No. 461 has ‘Firehorse’. (Oct 21)
• The Blackout Radio Show with Mike Pougounas with ‘The Spider’. And its syndicated to California, Cyprus, Greece and the UK! (Oct 21)
• Pulse Radio Show 5 (UK) played ‘Atoms’ (Oct 21)
• Bob Osborne’s Aural Delights 461, with ‘Firehorse’ (Sept 2021)
• Limeygit’s ‘Much Ado About Bugger All’ (Canada) with ‘Row the Boat Ashore’ (Sept 2021)
• Happy Medium with ‘Glasshouse’ (Aug 2012)
• Sorrow Vomit Mixcloud and ‘Rabbit Pie’ (Jan 2021)

• Subculture Vinyl PostPunk Show, mixcloud, aired ‘Glasshouse’ (Jan 2021)
• DJ Dragnet streaming with In Depth Music No.29 with ‘Boredom’, (Oct 2020)
• DJ Dragnet streaming with In Depth Music No.11  with ‘Rabbit Pie’ (June 2020)
• DJ Mix from Benny Blanco (Multi-Talented DJ) on World Goth Day aired ‘Atoms’ (May 2020)
• Carlos Paredes (Spotify) 70s/80s (Post-Punk, Darkwave, Goth, Synth) spins ‘Let Us Shine’ (May 2016)

• YouTube:

• Invisible Guy Recommends 80s Gothic Rock - 1983-84 (Part 3), and here’s ‘Row the Boat Ashore’ (Sept 2012)

• Celebrity MixTape Party #3 from Dagger Zine, which included ‘Carousel’ (2018)
• Hidden amongst odds and sods was this advert/flier (see Left) from A Battle of The Bands comp that Party Day took part in Sheffield, 1982. It shows the track list on the handout, that I’d prepared roughly!! for fanzine writers.

The sound was sabotaged and an ABC looky-soundy-likey band won. Dreadful.

And More News -

• Skylight Magazine (online) interview with the band - The Goth Chapter of the 80s (Sept 21)
• Penny Black Music Sorted! Review AND included in PBM’s Albums of the Year
• Online Radio:-

• Marco Rocha’s Transmission Lima Show. Party Day become regulars on the show:- ‘Rabbit Pie’ (27 Sept), ‘The Other Side’ (11 Oct), ‘Boredom’ (18 Oct) ‘Career’ (1 Nov), ‘Grace’ (15 Nov), ‘Simplicity’ (29 Nov 21), ‘A Passing Pain’ (6 Dec). Fantastic. (Peru and Ohio, USA)
• Pulse Beat Radio Show No.236 aired ‘The Spider’ (14 Dec 21)
• DJ Marcel P with Black Angel Gathering No.116 [Ghost Wave Radio] plays ‘My Heroine’ (Dec 21)
• Go-Go Magic Radio Show - the band was featured twice, ‘Glasshouse’ (5 Nov) and unknown (19 Nov 21)
• Dead City Radio / Church of Noise plays ‘The Spider’, (3 Nov 21) (Austria)
• More from Kat E, Alternative Frequencies Rock Show with ‘Row The Boat Ashore’ (6 Oct 21)
• Top 36 Goth / Death Rock online survey and PD gets listed (May 21)

• DJ Kannibal at Stitches, The Clark Bar, Champaigne, Illinois spins ‘Atoms’ (Jul 10)
• Dutch Music-Meter blog and the delights of Glasshouse (Dec 21)

“ The smashed up memory left no trace”