Bob Stanley / Pete Wiggs Present ...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?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.

• - 1 -

  • 1. Part of the Union - the Brothers (the Strawbs)
  • 2. Ordinary Boy - Small Wonder
  • 3. The Hertfordshire Rock - Ricky Wilde
  • 4. When Work is Over - the Kinks
  • 5. Sailing - the Sutherland Bros Band
  • 6. In Your Life - Adam Faith
  • 7. Londonderry - Phil Cordell
  • 8. Cut Loose - Stud Leather
  • 9. I'm On Fire - the Troggs
  • 10. Kill - Mike McGear
  • 11. And the Fun Goes On - Lieutenant Pigeon
  • 12. Open Up - Mungo Jerry
  • 13. Rod - Matchbox
  • 14. She's a Mover - Marty Wilde

• - 2 -

  • 1. Urban Guerilla - Hawkwind
  • 2. Homes Fit For Heroes - Edgar Broughton Band
  • 3. Breathless - Bombadil
  • 4. Why Am I Waiting - Robin Goodfellow
  • 5. What Ruthy Said - Cockney Rebel
  • 6. Clocks - Paul Brett
  • 7. You Turn Me On - the Troll Brothers
  • 8. Mole On the Dole - Climax Chicago
  • 9. I Feel So Down - Barracuda
  • 10. Northern Soul Dancer - Wigan's Ovation
  • 11. Don't Ride a Paula Pillion - Stavely Makepeace
  • 12. War Against War - Pheon Bear
  • 13. Roly Pin - Roly
  • 14. Stardust - David Essex