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"However, despite encouraging sales, an ‘extremely fatigued’ UK Decay split up in late 1982, and a posthumous live album, ‘A Night For Celebration’, was released during the summer of 1983."
I will never in my whole life forget that last gig of UK Decay, it was pure emotional! We played a pair of shows at Klub Foot, and Abbo announced at the first of the two shows that the following gig was to be the last, so that set the stage for the end
So the gig was like some kind of celebratory wake with tears from nearly everyone that was there! It really was the ultimate ‘night of celebration’, with Abbo screaming, ‘it’s not the end, it’s a new beginning!’

In the short time the band were around they had played over 450 gigs, all around the UK, tours of Germany, Holland, Belgium and France as well as the West coast of the US and Canada. They also released six singles and one studio album and one Live album cassette, They also recorded two shows for the BBC’s John Peel.
The influence UK Decay had on the emerging ‘Post punk’ and ‘Goth’ movements is well documented and cannot be underestimated.
thanks to Ian G. Quotes Stevespon
'Burning Britain: The History Of UK Punk, 1980 - 1984', available through Cherry Red Books in August 2004

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