Press
Blue Orchids, The Passage
16th March 1982

Extract from a magazine called "Masterbag" which described itself as "The new release magazine of the independent wholesalers". Don't know where I picked it up from but just flicking through it makes some quite interesting reading and an insight into what was happening round '82. Didn't know Mikey Dread had produced a Zounds record....The Hoax get a couple of mentions;remember Watty from The Exploited having them in his top 5 bands list in Sounds one time;not sure if that helped their career any...Stuff about Chris Sievey, Carmel, The Fall etc.
The Passage track X.O.Y.O. had an exemplary example of hand-clapping on it ,and they and Blue Orchids had been erstwhile residents of Chaz Baz Cresc. Hulme, during their long and illustrious careers.