Boogie Beat

Section 25 - Bad News Week [FAC 157 UK 1987 24-Bit FLAC]

Section 25 struggled to survive the split when Vin & Angela Cassidy decided to leave in the mid-eighties, also departing was competent keyboard player (and occasional drummer) Lee Shalcross. The Love & Hate album eventually appeared in 1988, however to these ears it always sounded unfinished - much like a collection of badly mixed demos.

Bad News Week was the preceding single, a track which had previously been demoed and featured on live sets as Boogie Beat, it was re-engineered by Bernard Sumner into beefy pounding electronica. Perhaps Sumner should have been given the rest of the album as the magnificent From The Hip was always going to be a tough act to follow.

The now disgraced musician and producer Jonathan King threatened legal action as he was convinced his sixties hit It's Good News Week had be plagiarised, though if you compare the tracks, only a few lines of lyrics had been parodied. Factory were forced to give King 100% of the publishing revenue, however this was likely to total no more than tuppence ha'penny given the single's limited commercial reach.

A1 Bad News Week
B1 Bad News Week 2 (The Cough Mix)