''7 Day Weekend'' is
the Comsat Angels' fifth album, released in 1985 on
Jive Records
Jive Records (later stylized as JIVE Records) was a British-American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary of the Zomba Group of Companies, Zomba Group. In the US, the label had offices in New York City and Chic ...
. The album was reissued on
CD with bonus tracks in
2001
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for Jive's "Connoisseur Collection".
The album was named after a song about unemployment which the band never recorded. Jive issued four singles from this album: "You Move Me" (summer 1984), "Day One" (October 1984), "I'm Falling" and "Forever Young" (both 1985).
The Comsat Angels website
In the end, only "I'm Falling" ever charted in the UK, making it to No. 90, perhaps helped by being featured in the movie ''Real Genius
''Real Genius'' is a 1985 American science fiction comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge, written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft, and PJ Torokvei, and starring Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret. The film, set on the campus of Pacific Tech, a scie ...
''.
In a 1997 interview, frontman Stephen Fellows was asked how he viewed ''7 Day Weekend'' in comparison with the band's other Jive album, ''Land
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''. He said, "I'm slightly happier with ''7 Day Weekend''. It took off in several strange directions. I'm very fond of 'Still It's Not Enough,' which is almost like blues or something. A weird soul song. And 'You Move Me' was a great live song".[Step Off, interviews, Stephen Fellows interviewed by Tony Kinson 13/3/97 ]
Fellows went through some turmoil with the record label during production of the album. On the song "You Move Me," Jive arranged for an unknown session guitarist to replace Fellows' own work. Upon receiving a recording of it, he mailed it back to them in pieces.
Track listing
Original Release – 1985
Reissue – 2001
Personnel
;The Comsat Angels
* Stephen Fellows – vocals
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, guitar
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* Andy Peake – synthesizer
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, vocals
* Kevin Bacon
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– bass guitar
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* Mik Glaisher – drums
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with:
* Pete Q. Harris – Fairlight synthesizer
* Peter Beckett – vocals on "Believe It", "Forever Young" and "I'm Falling"
* Stevie Lange – vocals on "Day One"
References
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1985 albums
The Comsat Angels albums
Albums produced by Chris Tsangarides
Albums produced by Mike Howlett
Jive Records albums