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Turn All The Lights Out

by Gods Gift

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1.
Discipline 04:27
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2.
Jaqueline's Admission 05:41
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3.
Good and Evil 04:35
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4.
Plague of Dreams 04:59
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5.
Anaesthetic 04:06
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6.
Clamour Club 02:32
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7.
Creeps In 03:04
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8.
Anthony Perkins 02:49
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9.
These Days 03:15
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10.
Phone Call from the Future 02:49
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11.
Revelations 07:21
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play loud! releases the entire recordings (see list below) of the Manchester post-punk band GODS GIFT (1979-1985), some for the first time ever. Mark E. Smith was a fan. Gods Gift guitar player Steve Murphy compiled 11 songs for what will be their first LP ever. Includes DVD with a live show in Rotterdam and extensive liner notes plus a postcard.

"Gods Gift were around when lots of Manchester groups were gaining fame and fortune. Manchester spawned a bleak soundtrack for the music loving youth of the time. The Gothic catacombs were the breeding place of much anger and consternation. Some groups wanted to be amusing, some wanted to be arty, some wanted to be doom-laden, but most wanted to be famous. Gods Gift wanted to shout their rage and hatred at a world that wasn’t listening to anything as irrelevant as people. Too many groups chose the route of audience appeasement but GG never had any intention of doing that, choosing to harangue and assault the audience. When people cooly chattered whilst they played, the volumes were turned to ear bursting volumes, creating a wall of dissonant noise punctuated with the anthemic shouting of another livid chorus. GG played a club in Manchester that was the spiritual home of whatever was the topical sound that week. Surrounded by inestimable numbers of David Bowies and Gary Numans, the singer stopped the group and decided he would tell them that he looked more like Bowie than they did. He didn’t; he had an ill-fitting work suit on. The room emptied of the fakers, but those who stayed appreciated it. The infamous rant, at people dancing in very cool London, to a 40-minute version of White Light / White Heat. “What you dancing for, it’s tuneless you pillock”. The huge fight at the Mayflower, when supporting the Dead Kennedys. The singer gleefully telling an identi-punk audience that the DKs didn’t care and were being paid a fortune, whilst the group hammered through Discipline. The singer always maintained that it was a fair fight “1500 onto 1”. It seems that some people have caught up with what the group was. Never a stance, never fancy haircut or fancy clothes, never a nod to their betters. GG were honest, committed and angry. Anti-authoritarians who didn’t break rules. They completely ignored them. Gods Gift NEVER backed down to anybody or anybody’s attempts to intimidate them. Their daily work in psychiatric hospitals made them unafraid of anything or anyone. The songs on this new album were a long time in the making. They are angry songs and anti-everything. The entire back catalogue of Gods Gift songs and a video will be available as digital downloads very soon through the German outlet play loud! They are priceless jewels from a group that cared and mattered. Buy them, listen to them as loud as you can and go out and demand to be heard!" (Steve Murphy, June 2023)

DIGITAL ONLY RELEASES:

pl-150 GODS GIFT: These Days (1979, 7" Single)
pl-151 GODS GIFT: The Original Group (1979-1980, never-before-released)
pl-152 GODS GIFT: The Greatest Story Ever Told (1980, Cassette)
pl-153 GODS GIFT: 12" EP (1981, 12" EP)
pl-154 GODS GIFT: Clamour Club Tapes (1981, never-before-released)
pl-155 GODS GIFT: Discipline (1982, 7" Single)
pl-156 GODS GIFT: Live In Rotterdam (1984, never-before-released, now also on DVD)
pl-157 GODS GIFT: Folie a quatre (1984, Cassette)
pl-158 GODS GIFT: The Todmorden Event (1984, never-before-released)
pl-159 GODS GIFT: The Final Recordings (1984, never-before-released)
pl-160 GODS GIFT: Rehearsal Tape (1985, never-before-released)

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released October 27, 2023

Artist: GODS GIFT
Title: Turn All The Lights Out
Label: play loud! productions
Genre: Punk, Post-Punk
Catalogue number: pl-138
Label Code: LC 15308
EAN: 4042564231618 (vinyl LP), includes a DVD of a gig in Rotterdam in 1984, the only footage of a Gods Gift live show ever (NTSC, region-free)
Release date: 10/27/2023 (Vinyl and digital)
Pre-order: www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/vinyl-12/829-gods-gift-turn-all-the-lights-out.html
Video: Live in Rotterdam, 1984
Distribution: ALIVE (GAS), Forced Exposure (USA)
Promotion: dense pr / ed@dense.de / www.dense.de

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Gods Gift were around when lots of Manchester groups were gaining fame and fortune in the 80s. The Gothic catacombs were the breeding place of much anger and consternation. Gods Gift wanted to shout their rage at a world that wasn't listening to anything as irrelevant as people. These angry songs are priceless jewels from a group that cared and mattered. ... more

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