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7 Day Weekend (album)

Field	Value
name	7 Day Weekend
type	studio
artist	The Comsat Angels
cover	Comsat Angels - 7 Day Weekendreissue-cover.jpg
released	1985
recorded	Battery Studios, London
genre	New wave, post-punk
length	43:02 (LP)
label	Jive
producer	Mike Howlett, James Mtume, Chris Tsangarides and The Comsat Angels
prev_title	Land
prev_year	1983
next_title	Chasing Shadows
next_year	1986

7 Day Weekend is the Comsat Angels' fifth album, released in 1985 on Jive Records. The album was reissued on CD with bonus tracks in 2001 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). 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.

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. 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".

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. Soon after, the band and label parted company. Said Fellows, "They didn't understand us or care about us. They just wanted a hit pop group – to turn us into another Flock of Seagulls".

Track listing

Original Release – 1985

Reissue – 2001

Personnel

;The Comsat Angels

Stephen Fellows – vocals, guitar
Andy Peake – synthesizer, vocals
Kevin Bacon – bass guitar
Mik Glaisher – drums 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

{{AllMusic
"Hybrid magazine interview, December 1985".
[http://www.hotsdesign.co.uk/comsats/web.htm The Comsat Angels website] {{webarchive. link. (2012-12-30)
Step Off, interviews, Stephen Fellows interviewed by Tony Kinson 13/3/97 {{usurped

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