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Sheffield, United Kingdom (1978 – 1990)

The Comsat Angels formed in 1978 in Sheffield, England, playing a harsh but melodic post-punk sound, featuring slashing guitars alongside icy keyboards. Throug most of their career they maintained a stable line-up of Steve Fellows (guitar and vocals), Kevin Bacon (bass guitar - not the Hollywood actor!), Andy Peake (keyboards) and Mic Glaisher (drums). In the autumn of their career, Kevin Bacon left the band and was replaced with Terry Todd on bass and Simon Anderson on guitars.

A debut self-financed single, Red Planet, was released in 1979, and this led to a contract with Polydor Records. Their debut Polydor single, Independence Day, arrived in 1980 and, though it didn’t chart, its sparse, urgent tone helped it become a minor classic. This was closely followed by a debut album, Waiting for a Miracle, which received good reviews but didn’t sell well. Nonetheless, the label kept faith with the band, and in 1981 they delivered a fierce, uncompromising sophomore LP, Sleep No More. This second album is widely regarded as a masterpiece that had a major influence on bands such as U2 (who toured with the band) and latterly Editors and Interpol. The album was reissued on CD twice, in 1995 by RPM Records and in 2006 by Renaiscent, with different track listings (see below). Sleep No More produced no singles, but it had the highest UK chart ranking for any Comsat album, peaking at #51. A third album, Fiction, followed in 1982, and this featured a more commercial sound, but it only clipped the UK top 100. It would become the band’s final Polydor LP.

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1		Independence Day			65
2		Gone			38
2		Waiting for a Miracle			38
4		Be Brave			37
5		Missing In Action			34
6		Total War			30
7		Real Story			28
7		Our Secret			28
9		Dark Parade			27
9		Sleep No More			27
11		Goat Of The West			22
12		Restless			21
12		I'm Falling			21
12		On the Beach			21
15		Eye of the Lens			20

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