{"title":"Religious Overdose","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"glass-hymnbook-1980-1982","title":"Glass Hymnbook (1980  1982)","description":"\u003cp\u003eReligious Overdose, from Northampton, were the first band to send me a tape. It was strange and I liked it. The full sequence of events are lost in the mists of time but basically I asked them if they wanted to make a record, they said yes and, after a trip up to Northampton to meet them and see them play a gig, I got them down to Ciaran's flat in Poplar, East London to record it. They didn't have a drummer at the time thus saving his neighbours a bit of grief. For some reason or other we all liked the earlier version of \u003ci\u003e25 Minutes\u003c\/i\u003e better than the one Ciaran recorded and used that for one side of the single, with his recording of \u003ci\u003eControl Addicts\u003c\/i\u003e as the other. It sold its first run of 1000 pretty fast, thanks to John Peel and the relentless flyer \/ fanzine attack of lead vocalist Alex Novak. 500 more were pressed and the colour on the label of the second pressing was changed to green from orange and the sleeve to black and white from green and black. We had no real distribution, just word of mouth, selling directly to shops like Small Wonder, Rough Trade, Red Rhino up in York. You could do that back then. People were interested. I remember Geoff Travis himself ringing me from Rough Trade to order 100 more each of the Religious Overdose and Ciaran Harte releases. It felt like we were part of something. The second single \u003ci\u003eI Said Go\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlien To You\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded at a studio in Rushden, called \u003ci\u003eRocksnake\u003c\/i\u003e, with added drummer Pete Brown john. Plus back at Ciaran’s they cut \u003ci\u003eBlow the Back Off It\u003c\/i\u003e for \u003ci\u003eThe Wonderful World Of Glass Volume 1\u003c\/i\u003e compilation LP. The third single, a 12'\" double A featuring two long tracks, \u003ci\u003eIn This Century\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Girl With The Disappearing Head,\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded in a studio in Denmark Street, London (the famed Tin Pan Alley) with myself and Ciaran Harte producing. So there you have it really: 3 singles, a compilation track, plus a solo cassette album by Richard Formby - \u003ci\u003eOutside The Angular Colony\u003c\/i\u003e in less time than it’s taken putting this CD into production. David Barker - Glass Records Redux May 2017\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glass Records Redux","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50496066748747,"sku":"1014740","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ae9c8002-9fcd-460c-ac91-90223c4172f5_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727716775"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/religious-overdose.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}