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The next release for Plastic Records was the band’s ‘Black Cat EP’, which came out in early 1980, and made the Indie chart for three weeks,getting to no 42. Alex Howe from Fresh Records, offered to license the first two singles off them and signed UK Decay to the label for several new 7”s and an album. It was around this time that UK Decay played their first 'out of town gig' , with Bauhaus at the Northampton Racecourse Pavilion.
"The first official release for Fresh was the September 1980’s ‘For My Country’ single, which became a huge Indie hit, spending eight months in the chart and reaching

(appropriately enough for such a superstitious band!) No. 13. The single was promoted by a UK tour with raging political US punk band, the Dead Kennedys"
By the end of the tour - we did twenty or thirty shows over about six weeks - we had both the ‘Black Cat EP’ and ‘For My Country’ riding high in the Indie charts and even entering the bottom end of the national charts. There were also endless interviews with the national music press and scores of fanzines.”
“Nothing mattered more to us than our audience; whatever the critics would say, negative or positive, didn’t have any affect on our relationship with our fans, apart from the fact that the numbers kept growing. And yes, I think at the time we felt we were being innovative, but what was more important for us was to create our music the way we wanted to and not to be compromised.”

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