Name: Celebrate The Bullet
Brand: The Selecter

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CHRX1306

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Colour

Clear

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180 Gram Vinyl with Printed Inners

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-11-11

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5060516099689

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Total Cap

2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / clear

Artist

The Selecter

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Chrysalis

The roots of Chrysalis stretch back to a tiny flat in West London in 1967, when former university social secretaries, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis, linked their flair for managing and booking bands to form the Ellis Wright Agency. After trying to release their bands' records via other companies, they decided to start their own label.

In 1968, they signed a licensing deal with Island Records with the proviso that if their acts achieved an agreed number of hits, they would be awarded a label of their own. Within a year, this tally was reached and Chrysalis Records was born.

Over the years, Chrysalis went through various ownership changes. In 1985, Chris Wright bought out Terry Ellis and later sold the label to EMI in 1991. EMI was then acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 before selling the Parlophone Label Group (including Chrysalis) to Warner Music Group in 2013.

The Selecter is a 2 Tone ska group that was formed in 1979 in Coventry, England. After releasing their second album, the original band split up in 1981.
In 1991, Neol Davies and Pauline Black reformed The Selecter with new musicians and toured with their classic repertoire. Two years later, Neol Davis left, leaving Pauline Black to lead The Selecter through the 90's up to 2004 with the help of original Producer Roger Lomas.
In 2010, Davies started a new band and began performing as 'Neol Davies aka The Selecter', while Pauline Black reunited with Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson to record a new Selecter album titled 'Made In Britain' and resumed touring. They continue to perform together to this day.

2022 Remaster. The Selecters's second album, Celebrate The Bullet was released in February 1981 as the follow up to the successful 2 Tone debut album Too Much Pressure, along with the hit singles On My Radio, Three Minute Hero and Missing Words.

Switching labels to Chrysalis Records, the band returned to On My Radio producer Roger Lomas, moving into a more melodic slower pace, whilst keeping their lyrical commentary on racial and social issues. Original members Desmond Brown and Charley Anderson departed before the recording began, with Lomas and Norman Watt-Ray (Ian Dury) helping on bass before new members James Mackie and Adam Williams joined to complete the recording.

Due to unfortunate timing, upon release the title of this album was misunderstood due to the recent murder of John Lennon and an assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Regan meant radio stations didn't support the single or album and the release was largely ignored.

This forgotten classic from the 2 Tone era is a timely reissue and will give time for a re-evaluation in the same way the 2021's reissue of Too Much Pressure showed the band as relevant.

Celebrate The Bullet

Music GB