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AFTER THE FIRE

Discography for UK 1978-1981

April 1978 LP (+ CD) SIGNS OF CHANGE

  1. Dance of the Marionette 7.00 (Piercy/Banks)
  2. Back to the Light 4.00 (Piercy/Banks)
  3. Now That I've Found 8.10 (Piercy/Banks)

  4. Signs of Change 8.04 (Piercy/Banks)
  5. Jigs 2.58 (Piercy)
  6. Pilgrim 11.22 (Piercy/Banks) (LP 1978: Rapid Records, RR 001)

    Extra tracks 2004 & 2011 CD:

  7. Samaritan Woman 11.01 (Piercy/Banks) [previously unreleased; recorded 1974/75]
  8. Dreamaway 9.50 (Piercy/Banks) [previously unreleased SIGNS OF CHANGE out-take]
  9. Hallelujah 6.31 (Banks) [first track ever that ATF recorded ca 1974]
  10. Back to the Light (Demo Version) 6.09 (Piercy/Banks) (CD Dec 2004: Roughmix 985900-3; CD 2011: Angel Air SJPCD361)
Recorded at ICC Studios, Eastbourne, Sussex. Peter Banks: Hammond C3 [organ], Mini Moog, Crumar Multiman, Piano, vocals. Nick Battle: Bass, vocals. Andy Piercy: Vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, tambourine. Ivor Twidell: drums.

Samaritan Woman & Hallelujah recorded at Theatre Projects Neals Yard Studio.

4 May 1979 7" One Rule for You

    One Rule for You 3.24 (Piercy/Banks) / Joy 3.16 (Piercy/Twidell/Russel/Banks) (CBS, S CBS 7025)
Peter Banks: synthesizers and vocals. Andy Piercy: bass and lead vocals. Ivor Twidell: drums. John Russell: guitar and vocals. Produced by Rupert Hine.

3 Aug 1979 7" Laser Love

    Laser Love 3.30 (Piercy/Banks) / Your Love Is Alive 3.13 (Piercy/Banks) (CBS, S CBS 7769)
Side A produced by Muff Winwood and Rhett Davies, side B produced by Muff Winwood.

Sep 1979 LP/MC LASER LOVE

    LP:
  1. Laser Love 3.28 (Piercy/Banks) [produced by Muff Winwood & Rhett Davies]
  2. Joy 3.17 (Piercy/Twidell/Russel/Banks) [produced by Rupert Hine]
  3. Take Me Higher 4.31 (Piercy/Banks) [produced by Muff Winwood]
  4. Life in the City 4.13 (Piercy/Banks) [produced by After the Fire]
  5. Suspended Animation 4.52 (Piercy/Banks) [produced by Muff Winwood]

  6. Like the Power of a Jet 3.07 (Piercy/Banks) [produced by Muff Winwood]
  7. One Rule for You 3.24 (Piercy/Banks) [produced by Rupert Hine]
  8. Time to Think 3.28 (Piercy/Banks) [produced by Muff Winwood & Rhett Davies]
  9. Timestar 4.36 (Banks) [produced by Muff Winwood]
  10. Check It Out 3.21 (Piercy/Banks) [produced by John Leckie] (CBS, CBS 83795)
    MC:
  1. Laser Love 3.28 (Piercy/Banks)
  2. Joy 3.17 (Piercy/Twidell/Russel/Banks)
  3. Take Me Higher 4.31 (Piercy/Banks)
  4. Life in the City 4.13 (Piercy/Banks)
  5. Check It Out 3.21 (Piercy/Banks)

  6. Like the Power of a Jet 3.07 (Piercy/Banks)
  7. One Rule for You 3.24 (Piercy/Banks)
  8. Time to Think 3.28 (Piercy/Banks)
  9. Timestar 4.36 (Banks)
  10. Suspended Animation 4.52 (Piercy/Banks) (CBS, 40-83795)
23 Nov 1979 7"/12" Life in the City
    Life in the City 3.08 [Single Remix by Tony Mansfield] (Piercy/Banks) / Listen to Me (Piercy/Banks) [produced by After the Fire] (7": CBS 8057)

    Life in the City 4.02 (Piercy/Banks) [Extended Remix by Tony Mansfield] //
    Listen to Me (Live 17 Nov 1979 at the Rainbow) 3.27 / Laser Love (Live 17 Nov 1979 at the Rainbow) 3.25 / Power of a Jet (Live 17 Nov 1979 at the Rainbow) 3.48 (12": CBS 12 8057)

Live tracks recorded at The Rainbow, Finsbury Park, London, 17 Nov 1979.

(early 1980) give-away white label live 7" [Live at the Rainbow 17 Nov 1979]

    One Rule For You (Live 17 Nov 1979 at the Rainbow) / Time to Think (Live 17 Nov 1979 at the Rainbow) (CBS, XPS 101)
Handed out for free at live gigs in early 1980.

25 April 1980 planned but withdrawn 7" Love Will Always Make You Cry [Tony Mansfield version]

    Love Will Always Make You Cry 3.23 (Piercy/Banks) [Tony Mansfield Single Edit] / Every Mother's Son 2.30 (Russell/Brotherwood) (promo 7": Epic, S EPC 8394)
Both tracks produced by Tony Mansfield. This original version of 'Love Will Always Make You Cry' was only pressed as a promo single, and the single was withdrawn.

April/May ca 1980 test pressing/promo 7" [80-f Four Track Sampler]

    Starflight 2.05 [Excerpt] / Love Will Always Make You Cry 1.53 [Excerpt] // It's High Fashion 1.18 [Excerpt] / 1980-F 1.47 [Excerpt] (CBS, XPS 104)
Excerpts from four of the tracks on the forthcoming (unreleased) LP, produced by Tony Mansfield.

May 1980 planned but withdrawn LP (+ partially on CD 2025) 80-F [Tony Mansfield version]

  1. Starflight 4.24
  2. It's High Fashion 3.18
  3. Another World 3.36
  4. Can You Face It? 3.19 [unreleased]
  5. Operator 3.45
  1. Love Will Always Make You Cry 4.00 [Full Length Album Version]
  2. 1980-F 2.36
  3. Satellite in Orbit 3.18
  4. Who's Gonna Love You [unreleased]
  5. Billy Billy [unreleased]
  6. Starflight Reprise [unreleased]
Tony Mansfield produced this LP in early 1980, engineered by Pete Hammond at the T.M.C. Studios, Tooting, England.

Peter Banks told in the liner notes to the 2025 6-CD Box "Bright Lights - 1974-1983": "We started working on '80-f' and this would turn out to be one of the low spots for the band, one that we try and not focus on! Having chosen our own producer, Tony Mansfield of New Musik fame, we went into his local studio [T.M.C. Studios] in South London and recorded with Nick Brotherwood on drums. The album was mastered, sleeve design complete and even some [copies] pressed up when we were called into the CBS boardroom and informed it would be dropped. We were simply told it was not good enough and we needed to go away and write three 'hit singles' to replace some of the tracks on the album."

This planned tracklist is revealed on a test pressing: https://www.discogs.com/release/15004826-After-The-Fire-80-f

"This acetate is a proto version of the album that became 80-f, recorded by Tony Mansfield before April 1980. Nick Brotherwood provided Drums as Ivor Twydell had left at the end of 1979. When completed, the album was presented to CBS, who rejected it. They subsequently sent the band off to Germany, with ex-Fly's drummer Peter King, to complete the album with producer Mack, who rebuilt the album. Three songs were dropped (Another World / Operator / Satellite In Orbit) and three new songs were added (Wild West Show / Why Can't We Be Friends / Joanne). Also dropped was the reprise of Starflight. T"

Tony Mansfield also produced another track "Why Can't We Be Friends" during these sessions.

In 2025 seven of these unreleased Tony Mansfield-produced tracks were finally released in the 6-CD Box "Aftyer the Fires: Bright Lights - 1974-1983: Starflight, It's High Fashion, Another World, Operator, Love Will Always Make You Cry, 1980-F and Satellite in Orbit (leaving out Can You Face It?, Who's Gonna Love You, Billy Billy, Starflight Reprise and Why Can't We Be Friends).

22 Aug 1980 7" Love Will Always Make You Cry [Mack version]

    Love Will Always Make You Cry 3.34 (Piercy/Banks) / Why Can't We Be Friends 3.48 (Piercy/Banks/Russell/King) (Epic, EPC 8942)
'Love Will Always Make You Cry' produced by Mack, 'Why Can't We Be Friends' produced by After the Fire (it has audience sounds added to it to make it sound like a live version).

24 Oct 1980 LP/MC 80-F [Mack version]

  1. 1980-F 2.32 (Banks)
  2. Love Will Always Make You Cry 3.30 (Piercy/Banks)
  3. Can You Face It? 3.15 (Piercy/Banks)
  4. Who's Gonna Love You (When You're Old and Fat and Ugly)? 4.05 (Piercy/Banks)
  5. Starflight 4.13 (Piercy/Banks)

  6. Wild West Show 3.30 (Piercy/Banks) [a newly recorded track]
  7. Billy, Billy 4.40 (Piercy/Banks)
  8. It's High Fashion 3.07 (Piercy/Banks/Russell)
  9. Why Can't We Be Friends? 2.46 (Piercy/Banks/Russel/King)
  10. Joanne 4.10 (Piercy/Banks) [a newly recorded track] (Epic, EPC 84545 / EPC 40-84545)
Produced, mixed and engineered by Mack at Utopia Studios, London. 1,3,5,7,8 "original recordings by Tony Mansfield" [= Mack used his productions but re-mixed them and added extra instruments and production]

24 Oct 1980 7" Wild West Show

    Wild West Show 3.49 [13 seconds longer than LP version] (Piercy/Banks) / Every Mother's Son 2.30 (Russell/Brotherwood) (Epic, EPC 9095)
Side A produced by Mac, side B produced by Tony Mansfield.

Note that this single version of Wild West Show is the original full length recording, which was then edited for the album by omitting 13 seconds (the repeat chorus part from 0:51 seconds to 1:04).

Oct 1980 German 7" 1980-F

    1980-F 2.32 (Banks) / Joanne 4.10 (Piercy/Banks) (Epic, EPC 9525)

June/July 1981 7" Dancing in the Shadows

    Dancing in the Shadows (Piercy/Banks) / Nobody Else But You (Piercy/Banks) (Epic, EPC A1378)
Peter 'Memory' Banks: synthesizers, piano, vocals. Pete King: drums. Andy Piercy: vocals, bass. John Russell: guitar, vocals. Produced by Mack.

Sep 1981 7"/12" Frozen Rivers

    Frozen Rivers 3.15 / Starflight 4.55 [Live 14 Nov 1980 at the Rainbow] (7": Epic, EPC A1613)

    Frozen Rivers // Starflight 4.55 [Live 14 Nov 1980 at the Rainbow] / Take Me Higher 8.00 [Live 14 Nov 1980 at the Rainbow] (12": EPC A 13- 1613)

Peter 'Memory' Banks: synthesizers, piano, vocals. Pete King: drums. Andy Piercy: vocals, bass. John Russell: guitar, vocals. Side A produced by Mack.

(2009) live CD RADIO SESSIONS 1979-1981

    1979 In Concert
  1. Joy
  2. A Little Sun, a Little Rain
  3. Laser Love
  4. Time to Think
  5. One Rule for You
  6. Suspended Animation
  7. Check It Out
  8. Like the Power of a Jet
    1980 In Concert
  9. Laser Love
  10. Life in the City
  11. Can You Face It?
  12. Who's Gonna Love You?
  13. Billy Billy
    1981 In Concert
  14. Frozen Rivers
  15. Dancing in the Shadows
  16. Sailing Ship
  17. Bright Lights
  18. Take Me Higher
  19. Starlight (Angel Air Records, SJPCD301)
Feb 1982 7"/12" Rich Boys
    Rich Boys 3.02 (Piercy/Banks) / One Rule for You (Live at the Rainbow 1980) 4.35 (7": CBS, A 1951)

    Rich Boys 3.02 (Piercy/Banks) // One Rule for You (Live at the Rainbow 1980) 4.35 / Billy Billy (Live at the Rainbow 1980) (12": CBS A 13 1951)

Side A produced by Mack.

24 March 1982 LP/MC BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED

  1. Short Change 3.19 (Piercy/Banks)
  2. Frozen Rivers 3.36 (Piercy/Banks)
  3. Sometimes 3.08 (Piercy/Banks/Russell)
  4. Sailing Ship 3.57 (Piercy/Banks)
  5. I Don't Understand Your Love 2.53 (Piercy/Banks)
  6. The Stranger 2.50 (Piercy/Banks)

  7. Rich Boys 3.02 (Piercy/Banks)
  8. Carry Me Home 4.14 (Piercy/Banks)
  9. Dancing in the Shadows 3.02 (Piercy/Banks)
  10. Space Walking 3.17 (Piercy/Banks)
  11. Gina 1.39 (Piercy/Banks)
  12. Stuck in Paris (Nowhere to Go) 2.45 (Banks/King)
  13. Bright Lights 3.36 (Piercy/Banks) (CBS, 85566 / 40-85566)
Produced by Mack.

Copyright (c) 2025-07-24 Jonas Wårstad.

Last updated 2025-07-24.

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