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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. (Vol.3 Track list).

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.

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!.

Glasshouse album - This album refuses to sleep;

• 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).
• Ranked 93 in the Top 100 Greatest Post-Punk Albums (site: Best Ever Album's Ever).
• Top 36 Goth / Death Rock online survey. (May 21)
• Dutch Music-Meter blog and the delights of Glasshouse (Dec 21)

Simplicity album: And here’s a great advert and recommendation - Best Kept Secrets (June 2008).

Sorted! Included within Penny Black Music’s Albums Of The Year, (Dec 21)

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.

          Raging Sun         Cassette Promo       

Compilations: Party Day have appeared on a few of these over the years (as listed here). So if you want to know more about them - here is the Full Official Compilations track list, showing what else was on the product.

As we now know, those clever chaps from Optic Nerve Recordings have put together the finest collection to date, SORTED! - (CD Sold Out).

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.