Blue Peter :: Radio Silence Reissue :: 2007

Radio Silence reissue
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Features the "Radio Silence" album along with the first EP, "Test Patterns For Living" and a live recording of "Take Me To War". Feature tracks: "Video Verite", "Radio Silence", "Take Me To War", and "Factory Living"
date: Tuesday, May 8, 2007 | catalogue #:7697425052 | format: Compact Disc | genre: ROCK | label: UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA
All of the tracks were restored from the original analogue masters and were mastered by Peter J. Moore at The E Room.

Radio Silence was recorded in 1980 and was Blue Peter's first full studio album.
The songs are about war and relationships. Tracks include "Video Verite", a song about nostalgia for the future; "Radio Silence", a dance floor friendly song about being the bombardier; and the album closer "Take Me To War", about invasion preparedness.

Test Patterns for Living was recorded in a single day in 1979, Angus MacKay and Andie Crosbie of Ready Records took the band into a studio in London Ontario and came out with this explosive collection of punk/pop, which included the underground radio hit "Factory Living" and the three minute bullet about the boredom of the scene, "Same Old Place".

Radio Silence
1. VIDEO VERITE
2. WHERE'S MY ANGEL
3. ATTRACTION
4. HESITATE
5. SHELLSHOCKED
6. RADIO SILENCE
7. NEON GIRLS
8. A.W.O.L.
9. I WALK ALONE
10. TAKE ME TO WAR

Test Patterns For Living
11. SAME OLD PLACE
12. OUT WITH THE BOYS
13. LIVING IN THE EIGHTIES
14. TIME AND MONEY
15. CLOAK AND DAGGER
16. DO THE ROBOT
17. FACTORY LIVING


Bonus Tracks
18. VIDEO VERITE (SINGLE VERSION)
19. TAKE ME TO WAR (LIVE VERSION)

CREDITS:
Radio Silence:
Producers: Kevin Doyle, Chris Wardman and Jasper
Engineer: Kevin Doyle
Recorded at Sounds Interchange 1980
Original Analogue Masters restored and mastered by Peter J. Moore at the E Room
Originally released on Ready Records (1980) (#LPRR 009)
Video Verite (Single Mix) mixed by Kevin Doyle and Chris Wardman
(Ready Records Cat # SGRR 009.5)
Cover by Sandra Shaw
Photography by Sandra & Powey
All Words and Music by Chris Wardman / Music For Masses
(SOCAN) except "Where's My Angel" by Paul Humphrey / Music For Masses (SOCAN)
Band: Paul Humphrey > Vocals and keyboards Chris Wardman > Guitar Geoff McOuat > Bass Mike Bambrick > Drums
Piano on "Take Me To War" by Ray Parker

Test Patterns For Living:
Producers: Angus MacKay and Andy Crosbie
Engineer: Kevin Doyle
Recorded at Southwest Studios, London, Ontario and Sounds Interchange, Toronto 1979.
Original analogue masters restored and mastered by Peter J. Moore at the E Room
Originally released on Ready Records (1979) (#RR005)
Cover by Sandra Shaw / Photography by Powey
Band: Paul Humphrey > Vocals & Keyboards / Chris Wardman > Guitar / Geoff McOuat > Bass / Ron Tomlinson > Drums / Backing
Vocals > Olimpio Mesquita, Chris Wardman, Geoff McOuat
All Words and Music by Chris Wardman / Music For Masses (SOCAN) EXCEPT "Out With The Boys" by Paul Humphrey / Music For Masses (SOCAN)

Bonus Tracks:
Take Me To War (Live) Recorded in 1983, Montreal, Quebec
Mixed by Kevin Doyle and Chris Wardman
Band: Paul Humphrey > Vocals / Chris Wardman > Guitar / Jason Sniderman > Keyboards / Rick Joudrey > Bass / Owen Tennyson > Drums. Words and Music by Chris Wardman / Music For Masses (SOCAN)