FOREIGN PRESS - Downpour - Original UK 7" Single - Private DIY Post Punk

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FOREIGN PRESS

Downpour

Original UK 7" Single released on Streets Ahead Records in 1979.
Wraparound picture sleeve.

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Foreign Press were formed in Manchester in January 1979 by brothers Ralph and Stuart Bowe, Dave 'Chubb' Murray, and Dave and John Midwood. The quintet had previously played as Emergency, but as Ralph Bowe recalls: 'We had punk attitude but more of a pop sound, and did a lot of dates as the support band at venues like Rafters and The Factory. But the name Emergency became restrictive in itself, so we needed a new name to go with our developing sound.'

Settling on Foreign Press, the group wasted little time in cutting their first single at Cargo Studio in Rochdale on 25 March 1979, recording Downpour, Crossfire and Behind the Glass. Engineered by John Brierley, the three tracks were co-produced by the band and Joy Division manager Rob Gretton. Bowe: 'Before Rob managed Joy Division he was the DJ at Rafters, which is where we got to know him. We knew he had good ears and was someone we could have a laugh with. Lots of good records were coming out of Cargo at the time, all engineered by John Brierley, so that's where we wanted to record. Rob tried to rein in some of the guitars, 'less being more' being his mantra. However he didn't get all his own way, and I think the record was all the better for that compromise.'

The 7" was released in June on small Manchester label Streets Ahead, in an early sleeve by Trevor Johnson, later a core designer for Factory Records. The single received limited airplay from BBC DJs John Peel and Peter Powell, and was favourably reviewed by Paul Morley in NME: 'Foreign Press are Manchester's brightest brand new loved ones. Their music is choppy, spiralling, edgy and well rinsed with guitars; they're like a well-cushioned Joy Division. Joy Division's flamboyant manager Rob Gretton in fact shares production chores with the group. Although Foreign Press stop short of achieving the channelled psychotic blitzkreig thrust of the very great Division, they manage a fluctuating, fortified sort of '79 psychedelia that makes them A Group To Look Out For. Foreign Press make good patterns.' Andy Hero of City Fun was also impressed, writing of Downpour: 'Light guitar like the psychedelic shadows, penetrating over the top, subverting my brain. It's great.'

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Downpour

Side Two

Crossfire
Behind The Glass

Released on 'Streets Ahead Records' in 1979

Catalogue No. SA1

Disc is in EX condition (some light surface wear)

Sleeve is in G+ condition (some storage wear & creasing ; marks on rear - see pictures)

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POSTAGE RATES FOR 7” SINGLES:

UK: £2.00 – then £0.50 each extra.
EUROPE: £4.95 – then £0.50 each extra.
"WORLD ZONE 1" (USA, CANADA, JAPAN etc ): £6.00 – then £1.00 each extra
"WORLD ZONE 2" (AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND etc): £6.55 then £1.00 each extra

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