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- | What of the Night recorded a demo at BBC Radio Bristol Studios in 1979 which won the Best New Gospel Band in the UK award that year. They spent most of the year recording their excellent LP which was released during christmas 1979. | ||
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- | The album is an inventive mix of punk and garage rock in interesting arrangements and with psychedelic edges -- it could be seen as an early example of neo-psych -- but it's let down by poor production. It was released on the Ballymena-based xian label [[Budj Records]]. It's difficult to track down but not expensive and is recommended." | ||
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- | In early ‘79, What Of The Night recorded a demo tape at the BBC Radio Bristol studios. This helped them to win the title of ‘Best new gospel band in the UK’ after entering a competition to find the best new gospel bands in the UK on Anne Nightingale’s BBC Radio One show. Their reward, to gain exposure through national airtime on Radio One. The rest of '79 was then spent recording material for their debut album, at a studio near Glasgow, in Scotland. | ||
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- | Their self titled album was released on Coulter’s newly formed Budj label, amid a flurry of publicity in the local press, at Christmas ’79, and immediately came under fire from Christian fundamentalists who believed Punk and Heavy Metal to be the ‘music of the devil’, so they waved placards and boycotted the shop selling the records in Ballymena. The band also came under attack from punk purists who regarded it with suspicion due to its Christian sentiment! Despite the opposition, the three thousand copies of the album which were made (50% on vinyl and 50% on cassette) sold enough copies to enable Budj to record and release more artists." | ||
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