{"id":1206,"date":"2008-10-20T15:51:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T14:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2008-10-20T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T16:14:41","slug":"blitz-no-future-records-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/blitz-no-future-records-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Blitz – No Future Records – 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someones Gonna Die \/ Attack<\/a><\/p>\n

Fight To Live \/ 45 Revolutions<\/a><\/p>\n

The first release on No Future Records\u00a0was the\u00a0debut release by Blitz, a band with a hard hitting sound akin to driving a truck into a brick wall, with a vocalist that sounded like he had swallowed a bag of masonary nails before the recording session. Damn fine stuff to the youth of the day, back in the day.<\/p>\n

Went onto better things in 1982 with the following\u00a0two or three\u00a0singles and the LP\u00a0 ‘Voice Of A Generation’ which is still a strong piece of work, one of the most popular bands of 1982 in\u00a0UK punk circles.<\/p>\n

Eventually in 1983\u00a0the band split into Rose Of Victory and a seperate\u00a0Blitz, both bands still released material on No Future Records, or more accurately Future Records in Blitz (mark II)\u00a0case.<\/p>\n

Blitz\u00a0(mark II) released the magnificant ‘New Age’ single which was featured on The Tube of all programmes, and then the following single ‘Telecommunication’.<\/p>\n

This ‘Telecommunication’ single,\u00a0with a more synth orientated neu romantic sound, let down the bonehead and punker Blitz following so much, that one of them felt inclined to wrote into\u00a0the weekly Sounds music paper complaining\u00a0that his recently needled on, Blitz face tattoo,\u00a0was now embarrassing him in front of his friends! Poor soul…I went out to\u00a0purchase the ‘Telecommunication’ \u00a0single straight away after that letter!<\/p>\n

Text below from All Music Guide<\/p>\n

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Oi! band Blitz helped to successfully launch No Future Records with its first EP, All Out Attack<\/em>. Fans snapped up all 1,000 copies of the first run in short order. During the summer of 1981, indie charts in the U.K. saw the release rise to the number three spot. Sales of the four-track EP, which was the first release by the new label, eventually totaled more than 20,000 copies. “Never Surrender,” a single that followed the debut’s release, climbed to the number two spot on the U.K.’s indie charts. It took the place of “Time Bomb,” a single that Blitz’s members had wanted to put out until the label nixed that idea. The group followed up with “Warriors,” which was backed by “Youth.” Critics and fans compared the single to efforts by the 4-Skins and the Business, and it, too, performed very well on the indie charts. For the second time in a row, Blitz hooked the number two spot. The group then made it onto the national charts with 1982’s Voice of a Generation<\/em>, its first album. It held steady on the charts at number 27 despite the fact that there was little to no promotional campaign from the label to back it up and grab some exposure. Still, members of Blitz did well for themselves. They embarked on a tour of the U.K. alongside Abrasive Wheels and G.B.H., but unfortunately the lineup failed to adequately fill the sizeable concert venues that were scheduled. Disappointment led to some rocky times. Mackie was the first to drop out of the band, followed by Nidge, and then Charlie. Mackie and Nidge teamed up as Rose of Victory to record another No Future EP, while Tim and Carl tried to keep Blitz going with a new lineup. They put out New Age, repeating the band’s earlier indie chart successes when the release rose to number two. Telecommunication followed, but by then fans were becoming critical of what they perceived as a change in the group’s sound. The new Blitz tried to persevere with the release of Second Empire Justice<\/em>. Nidge, along with Attak’s Gary Basset, tried to keep things going in the late ’80s with The Killing Dream<\/em>, an album put out by Skunx Records. Before things fell apart for good, Nidge brought two other musicians into the band and embarked on a European tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someones Gonna Die \/ Attack Fight To Live \/ 45 Revolutions The first release on No Future Records\u00a0was the\u00a0debut release by Blitz, a band with a hard hitting sound akin to driving a truck into a brick wall, with a vocalist that sounded like he had swallowed a bag of masonary nails before the recording […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}