Name: Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs present Three Day Week
Brand: Various

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XXQLP2058

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Clear

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Double 180 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve. Comes with Two Extra Tracks.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-03-29

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Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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029667009317

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / clear

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Various

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Classic

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Ace Records is a UK label that was conceived in the 70s by Ted Carroll, Roger Armstrong, and Trevor Churchill. Originally selling secondhand 45s on a London market stall, they later set up Chiswick Records and focused on releasing work by "pub rock" bands. As the 80s arrived, Ace shifted its focus to the reissue market and became known as Ace Records of Camden Town. Today, Ace has established itself as a reputable name in the reissue market with numerous sub-labels catering to various musical styles.

With an extensive catalog spanning R&B, blues, soul, funk, jazz, rock 'n' roll, folk, country, punk, rockabilly, psychobilly, cajun,z ydeco,and world music,Ace offers something for every music lover. In addition to their own releases,Ace frequently licenses and acquires labels like Flair and Modern which allows them to reissue original releases and compile new ones in different formats.

It's worth noting that LP releases from Ace have been reissued under the same cat# but with different label designs over time. When submitting requests or searching for specific releases,it's important to include both an indication of the label design present and supporting images if possible.

Britain wasn’t on its own in having a thoroughly miserable 1973: O Lucky Man! and Badlands both found a great year to premiere, while Watergate brought America to a new low. But America didn’t still have back-to-backs and outside bogs. Tens of thousands of Britons remained housed in wartime pre-fabs and sub-standard dwellings. The bright new colours of the post-war Festival of Britain and Harold Wilson’s talk in the 60s of the “white heat of technology” now seemed very distant as strikes, inflation, and food and oil shortages laid Britain low. What had gone wrong? And what did pop music have to say about it? 

With perfect timing this album soundtracks Britain on the brink of chaos. It includes lost masterpieces (Phil Cordell’s Londonderry), gritty singles by the new names of the early 70s (Mungo Jerry’s Open Up, David Essex’s Stardust) and forgotten gems by some of the biggest names of the previous decade, now struggling to make themselves heard (the Kinks’ When Work Is Over, the Troggs’ I’m On Fire). Sometimes the approach was tongue-in-cheek (the Strawbs’ Part Of The Union), other times it was the sound of sheer frustration (Mike McGear’s ‘Kill’), and occasionally it was angry enough to incur the wrath of special branch (Hawkwind’s banned Urban Guerilla). Mostly the sound of these records evokes the feeling of nights in with only candles to light the house and TV closing down at 10pm: the empty spaces of Adam Faith’s In Your Life; the fuzz guitar minimalism of Ricky Wilde’s Hertfordshire Rock; Climax Chicago’s alternative lifestyle-musing Mole On The Dole.

Compiled by Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, Three Day Week follows on from their highly acclaimed English Weather, Paris In The Spring and State Of The Union compilations. It amplifies the noise of a country which was still unable to forget the war, even as it watched the progressive post-war consensus disintegrating. We hear shrugs and cynicism, laughter through gritted teeth, melancholy, and a real anger that would rise to the surface with punk a few years later.

2LP - Double 180 Gram Clear Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve. Comes with Two Extra Tracks.

Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs present  Three Day Week

Music GB