JAMESON RAID - Seven Days Of Splendour EP (1979) UK

GBH RECORDS
"Seven Days Of Splendour" EP by Jameson Raid from back in 1979. The Brummie bruisers recorded a couple of highly regarded (and highly priced!) eps & a demo, before changing their name to The Raid in time for a "Metal For Muthas 2" appearance, which was to be their last hurrah. I don't think they ever bettered the first ep, presented here for your enjoyment, the title track in particular being a much compiled highlight of the whole "movement".

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JAMESON RAID - "Electric Sun" Demo (1982) UK

Self-Released Cassette
With only two EP's and a scarce demo to their name, JAMESON RAID, who had formed as early as 1977, are still one of the NWOBHM era's best remembered bands. Formed in Birmingham from the ashes of punk band Notre Dame, they should have, in a just world, gone on to bigger and better things. Their 1979 debut EP, "Seven Days Of Splendour"is laden with original, fast Heavy music. The title track being one of the best songs of the whole period!
The two further tracks are great too, the 6-minute long "Catcher In The Rye" convinces completely and almost justifies the abnormally high price which one must pay for this rare piece today.
If the single is complete, one finds a text sheet with an abstrusely fictitious story on the back.
In 1980 appeared the second EP, "The Hypnotist", a four track tour-de-force. JAMESON RAID offers again quality here, showing more variety and better production than on their debut. Again one must pay today three-figure euro amounts in order to be able to call this vinyl one's own.
The last vinyl sign of the band was on the "Metal For Muthas 2" compilation album, (EMI, 1980). The band were now going by the shortened name of THE RAID and disappointed with the relatively poor "Hard Lines", a sad epitaph to a great band.
An obscure demo called "Electric Sun" surfaced in 1982, but by then it was all over...
TRACKS:
01. Electric Sun
02. Run For Cover
03. Poor Little Rich Girl
04. Getting Hotter

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JAMESON RAID - The Hypnotist EP (1980) UK

Jameson Raid's "The Hypnotist", a brilliant little four song EP from waaaay back in 1980. With a better production than on their debut EP, the songs get more of a chance to breathe here, the melodies which were buried slightly on "Seven Days Of Splendour", really get a chance to get under your skin this time 'round. The guitars are sharper, the drums heavier, their debut's promise more than fulfilled. Okay, the lyrical tack of "The Hypnotist" is a little silly, but it was a different era, and that's a small complaint when everything else about this record makes this almost the perfect example of NWOBHM.

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