{"product_id":"bob-stanley-and-pete-wiggs-present-three-day-week","title":"Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs present  Three Day Week","description":"\u003cp\u003eBritain wasn’t on its own in having a thoroughly miserable 1973: O Lucky Man! and Badlands both found a great year to premiere, while Watergate brought America to a new low. But America didn’t still have back-to-backs and outside bogs. Tens of thousands of Britons remained housed in wartime pre-fabs and sub-standard dwellings. The bright new colours of the post-war Festival of Britain and Harold Wilson’s talk in the 60s of the “white heat of technology” now seemed very distant as strikes, inflation, and food and oil shortages laid Britain low. What had gone wrong? And what did pop music have to say about it? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith perfect timing this album soundtracks Britain on the brink of chaos. It includes lost masterpieces (Phil Cordell’s \u003ci\u003eLondonderry\u003c\/i\u003e), gritty singles by the new names of the early 70s (Mungo Jerry’s \u003ci\u003eOpen Up\u003c\/i\u003e, David Essex’s \u003ci\u003eStardust\u003c\/i\u003e) and forgotten gems by some of the biggest names of the previous decade, now struggling to make themselves heard (the Kinks’ \u003ci\u003eWhen Work Is Over\u003c\/i\u003e, the Troggs’ \u003ci\u003eI’m On Fire\u003c\/i\u003e). Sometimes the approach was tongue-in-cheek (the Strawbs’\u003ci\u003e Part Of The Union\u003c\/i\u003e), other times it was the sound of sheer frustration (Mike McGear’s ‘Kill’), and occasionally it was angry enough to incur the wrath of special branch (Hawkwind’s banned \u003ci\u003eUrban Guerilla\u003c\/i\u003e). Mostly the sound of these records evokes the feeling of nights in with only candles to light the house and TV closing down at 10pm: the empty spaces of Adam Faith’s \u003ci\u003eIn Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e; the fuzz guitar minimalism of Ricky Wilde’s \u003ci\u003eHertfordshire Rock\u003c\/i\u003e; Climax Chicago’s alternative lifestyle-musing \u003ci\u003eMole On The Dole\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompiled by Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, \u003ci\u003eThree Day Week\u003c\/i\u003e follows on from their highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eEnglish Weather, Paris In The Spring \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eState Of The Union\u003c\/i\u003e compilations. It amplifies the noise of a country which was still unable to forget the war, even as it watched the progressive post-war consensus disintegrating. We hear shrugs and cynicism, laughter through gritted teeth, melancholy, and a real anger that would rise to the surface with punk a few years later. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - Double 180 Gram Clear Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve. Comes with Two Extra Tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ace","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50449189437771,"sku":"1056790","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50449190027595,"sku":"1056791","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/684a37a4-e9c6-4dbd-a081-2e87a0407eab_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727100058","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/bob-stanley-and-pete-wiggs-present-three-day-week","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}