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The Armoury Show - Waiting For The Floods [TRK 1008CD UK 2001 FLAC]

Originally released as a vinyl album on Parlophone Records in 1985.

We've had a splurge of scottishness over on my vinyl site, I'll just stick one here for now. Ripped from the well mastered 2001 CD reissue, if you want your ears to bleed buy the expanded Cherry Red double CD edition released in 2013.

The Armoury Show remained largely unheard in their heyday in the mid-1980s, despite featuring several eminent new wave musicians. At the start of that decade, the Dunfermline punk band the Skids were coming to natural end, and, after guitarist Stuart Adamson left to form Big Country, singer Richard Jobson and bassist Russell Webb also eventually went in a new direction. Around this time the Manchester-based group Magazine, which had included drummer John Doyle and guitarist John McGeoch, were also dissolving. The latter had also had a stint playing with Siouxsie and the Banshees, and even replaced Adamson briefly in the Skids for a Peel Session shortly before they split up in 1981.

Richard Jobson, Russell Webb, McGeogh and Doyle formed the Armoury Show together in 1981, taking their name from a famous 1913 modern art exhibition in New York. Unfortunately they only had a brief existence, but they left us with a gem of a record in the guise of Waiting for the Floods, their 1985 one and only album.

01 Castles In Spain
02 Kyrie
03 A Feeling
04 We Can Be Brave Again
05 Higher Than The World
06 The Glory Of Love
07 Waiting For The Floods
08 A Sense Of Freedom
09 Sleep City Sleep
10 Avalanche