Dolphins \/ These Frayed Edges<\/a><\/p>\nExcellent debut 12\u2033 record by Danse Society, recorded in 1980 and released on Pax Records in 1981.<\/p>\n
Nice and\u00a0gloomy, the A side clocks in at\u00a0over 12 minutes playing time.\u00a0A seriously epic dark dirge. The B side,\u00a0also recorded during the same sessions in Manchester are slightly more upbeat, but not much!<\/p>\n
Text below from personal1.iddeo.es\/blancinegre<\/p>\n
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The forerunners of The Danse Society can be found in 1979 when Steve Rawlings (voice), Paul Gilmartin (drums), Paul Hampshire (known as Bee) (keyboards), Dave Patrick (lead guitar) and Bubble (bass) formed a band simply called Y? which had the track \u2018End Of Act One\u2019 included in the compilation LP \u2018Bouquet Of Steel\u2019 released in early 1980. By 1979 Lyndon Scarfe and Paul Nash had a band called Lips-X, the mutual ideas with the people of Y? lead to the joining of both bands by June 1979 to form the real forerunner of The Danse Society, a band called Danse Crazy. This band played at the Futurama Two Festival (popular name for \u201cThe World\u2019s Second Science Fiction Music Festival\u201d) held at Queen\u2019s Hall, Leeds in September 1979. Other groups playing at that festival were: Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, A Certain Ratio, OMD, Public Image Limited, Soft Cell among others. The complete festival was filmed by the BBC and in November 1981 was aired. Danse Crazy were shown playing \u2018Sink\u2019, although they were listed as The Danse Society.<\/p>\n
A few days before they played at Futurama, the band was in studio and recorded two tracks \u2018There Is No Shame In Death\u2019 and \u2018Dolphins\u2019, shelving them for a future release.<\/p>\n
The nucleus of Danse Society was formed in January 1981 when Bee left Danse Crazy.\u00a0Bee was later involved in other bands such as Panache, Getting The Fear and Into A Circle. Patrick also left. The four remaining members went on with the band but by March 1981 they changed the name to The Danse Society. The first line-up were Steve Rawlings (voice), Paul Nash (guitar), Lyndon Scarfe (keyboards), Tim Wright (bass) and Paul Gilmartin (drums).<\/p>\n
In September 1980 they recorded their first 12\u2033; it was called \u2018There Is No Shame In Death\u2019 although it was shelved, releasing \u2018Clock\u2019 instead, on their new own label SOCIETY RECORDS.<\/p>\n
You can read on Paul Nash\u00b4s own words how the first record was released:<\/p>\n
\u201cClock \/ Continent was originally released as a one off 7\u2033 single with a pressing of just 1000 financed by the band. We each of us put in about \u00a3200 to paid for the recording, pressing etc. and I designed the sleeve which was a wrap around white card with lyrics printed by my girlfriend liz at the local college ( she later became my wife! ).This was then inserted into specially made plastic bags and had an interesting clock logo for the label of the 7\u201d. The single was subsequently re-released, with a different sleeve and label and I believe the original is still hard to come by. It was never released as a 12\u2033, although we did used to play longer versions of it live\u201d.<\/p>\n
With a contract with PAX RECORDS \u2018There is No Shame In Death\u2019 finally saw the light and the first 7\u2033 record (\u2018Clock\u2019) was re-released in March 1981. Soon after, and prior to breaking the contract with PAX RECORDS later on in 1981, the band released a 12\u2033 \u2018Womans Own\u2019 , which contains\u00a0four songs recorded originally as John Peel sessions, and a 7\u2033 \u2018We\u2019re So Happy \/ Woman\u2019s Own\u2019 , edited both by PAX and SOCIETY RECORDS.<\/p>\n
By that time they were respected by public and musical press mainly due to their great live shows. Their tunes, with Steve\u2019s typical distance voice and painful atmospheres, excited a public who found them far more accessible than other gothic bands. Their popularity quickly grew up as their shows improved. One of the reasons of their quick success was the opening of several shows for major goth bands of the day, like UK Decay, Killing Joke or Theatre of Hate.<\/p>\n
Their musical career reached mature in 1982, when a six-track album \u2018Seduction\u2019 was released by SOCIETY RECORDS. This record contained only\u00a0six songs but with the initial copies it was given a free bonus 12\u2033 with two remixes of a popular songs by the band: \u2018Danse \/ Move\u2019.<\/p>\n
A rare tape of that musical moment was edited semi-officially by the fan club. You can read Paul Nash\u00b4s comment on that:<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as live stuff goes there was only one official \/ unofficial live tape \u2013 released entirely through the fan club, of a gig at The Hague in Holland containing mainly the seduction album stuff. Again not many copies were done so it\u2019s pretty rare\u201d<\/p>\n
The success of this work was big enough to make the band a point of interest for some major labels. Soon after releasing their last independent single, the glorious \u2018Somewhere \/ Hide\u2019 (December 1982), the band signed to ARISTA in January 1983.<\/p>\n
A compilation of all their first singles was also released with the homonymous title \u2018The Danse Society\u2019. It was edited in two different versions during 1983, one in Canada with a free bonus 12\u2033 and a simple edition in France.<\/p>\n
The first singles with the new major label didn\u2019t deceive, they were even better than the past material. \u2018Wake Up\u2019 released in June 1983, and mainly the great \u2018Heaven Is Waiting\u2019 brought them to the top of their popularity.<\/p>\n
Their new major album appeared in December 1983. The record was called \u2018Heaven Is Waiting\u2019. A different edition of this record by Great Expectations Records can be found. This edition and adds four songs to the common edition by ARISTA, although it seems to be from the early 1990\u2019s. The album contained great tunes like \u2018Red Light\u2019, \u2018Where Are You Now\u2019, \u2018Come Inside\u2019, and the two previous singles \u2018Heaven Is Waiting\u2019 and \u2018Wake Up\u2019. It also contained a song which, according to musical press opinion, didn\u2019t fit with their style: the epic version of the Rolling Stones \u20182000 Light Years From Home\u2019, also edited in 1984 as 12\u2033 and as a limited edition double single.<\/p>\n
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During 1984 they toured extensively to promote their record, even playing in Madrid and Barcelona. A\u00a0highlight\u00a0performance\u00a0during this tour took place on April 7th 1984 at the Hammersmith Palais, London, sharing the night with the German band from the stable of artists on 4AD records, X-Mal Deutschland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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