© Fotos & Words by Steve Drury

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“2021 was a great year for the band. Who knew we struck a chord with so many people.

Firstly, thanks to the faith that Optic Nerve Recordings had in Party Day. SORTED! Was released on various formats resulting in reviews, playlists and sales . . . Wow! Thanks to everyone. We believed in the music, but it feels so good that others do too.

Firstly about SORTED! -

• The SORTED! Reviews to date:

• 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
• Penny Black Music

• Sorted! Interviews:
• Skylight Magazine (online) interview with the band - The Goth Chapter of the 80s (Sept 21)
•  Penny Black Music’s Albums of the Year selection
• Online Radio Playlist/Livestreams:

• Marco Rocha’s Transmission Lima Show. Party Day become regulars on the show:- ‘Rabbit Pie’ (27 Sept 21), ‘The Other Side’ (11 Oct), ‘Boredom’ (18 Oct) ‘Career’ (1 Nov), ‘Grace’ (15 Nov), ‘Simplicity’ (29 Nov), ‘A Passing Pain’ (6 Dec 21). 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)
• DJ Kat E of Alternative Frequencies Rock Show played ‘Row The Boat Ashore’ (6 Oct 21) and then ‘The Spider’ (27 Oct 21)
• 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)
• 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)
• C86 Radio show. Interview with Carl Firth. He speaks! [Audio file] to David Eastaugh (Sept 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 12)
• Sorrow Vomit Mixcloud and ‘Rabbit Pie’ (Jan 21)

• Subculture Vinyl PostPunk Show, mixcloud, aired ‘Glasshouse’ (Jan 21)
• DJ Dragnet streaming with In Depth Music No.29 with ‘Boredom’, (Oct 2020) and with In Depth Music No.11, ‘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)

• Club Playlists:

• DJ Kannibal at Stitches, The Clark Bar, Champaigne, Illinois spins ‘Atoms’ (Jul 10)
• L'Heure du Loup at Meilleurs, Voeux brought in the new year with the ‘Atoms’ (Jan 2016)
• Top 36 Goth / Death Rock online survey and PD gets listed (May 21)

• Dutch Music-Meter blog and the delights of Glasshouse (Dec 21)
• 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
• 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)
• 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!)
• 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)
• Fanzine Round-Up:

• Kiss the Carpet fanzine and a chart listing from Dec 1983
• Whippings & Apologies interview (1983)

• Sheffield’s fanzine Wagging Tongues interview (late 1983)

• Advert from Leeds Student for La Phonographique gig, May 1983
• 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.

“ See them standing on the hlll top”