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The Overground Records Catalog

Title:
Everything
Artist:
Victim
Cat #:
OVER97VPCD

One of Belfast's first punk bands and the second band to release a record on Good Vibrations. This 22 track CD includes all three singles and 15 unreleased studio recordings packaged in a 12 page booklet. Drummer Mike Joyce would later achieve worldwide fame in The Smiths.

Press Release for Everything

Formed in Belfast in mid-1977, Victim soon became familiar faces on the fast-emerging Belfast punk scene.

Rehearsing in a garage, it wasn't long before the neighbours objected and the band relocated to a printing works but were soon in further trouble when worshippers at the church next door were forced to abandon an evening service due to ear-splitting noise of Victim rehearsing.

Following their appearance on the legendary UTV punk documentary 'It Makes You Want To Spit' and a rapidly increasing live following, Terri Hooley signed the band to his Good Vibrations label.

The second release on the label 'Strange Thing By Night' cost just

Track Listing

Strange Thing By Night / I Need You / Blood And Ashes / Need A New Emotion / Mixed Up World / Why Are Fire Engines Red / (Don't Cry) Tomorrow Love Will Come Again / Don't Break It / Junior Criminals / The Strangest Stars / The Teenage / Cause Or Consequence? Avalanche Of Love / The Bluff Brigade / Isobel/Lady Of The Flowers / Siegfried's Ideal / Carnival / Hang On To Yourself / Lady Lioness / The Last Laugh / The Silence

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