1986 RED WEDGE - " The MPs we’d meet around the country were more showbiz than the groups"

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??/01/1986

News Night BBC 2

Paul Weller Interview

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21/01/1986

Piccadilly Radio Manchester

PW conducts a telephone interview with Mike Sweeney

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21/01/1986

NME run a feature on Red Wedge

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25/01/1986

1st night of the Red Wedge Tour

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• 25/01/1986 Apollo Theatre Manchester 

• 26/01/1986 St David's Hall Cardiff 

• 27/01/1986 The Odeon Birmingham 

• 28/01/1986 De Montford Hall Leicester

• 29/01/1986 St Georges Hall Bradford

• 30/01/1986 The Playhouse Edinburgh

• 31/01/1986 City Hall Newcastle

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30/01/1986

TV EYE ITV

Feature on Red Wedge & a pre recorded PW interview 

from Wembley Arena Dec 85

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14/02/1986

Mean Fiddler Club London

PW, MT & Norman Cook DJ

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02/03/1986

Royal Albert Hall London - Benefit gig for GLC Jobs Year

Featuring The Flying Pickets & Lindisfarne with special guest Paul Weller. 

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21/03/1986

The Odeon Hammersmith London RED WEDGE

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22/03/1986

Royal Court Liverpool RED WEDGE

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28/03/1986

Have You Ever Had It Blue is released

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03/04/1986

Club Mix Channel 4

PW interview with Baz Bamigboye

PW & MT perform Funky Nassau with Black Britain

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04/04/1986

Terry Wogan Show BBC1

TSC perform Have You Ever Had It Blue

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05/04/1986

Saturday Superstore Kids TV with Keith Chegwin

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06/04/1986

CINE1 Have You Ever Had It Blue is released

Peaks at No_14 and stays in the UK charts for 6 weeks

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• Also released in the following countries
   

• 7" USA

• 7" Spain

• 7" France

• 7" Australia

• 7" Ireland

• 7" Germany

• 7" New Zealand

• 7" Japan

• 7" Netherlands

• 7" Portugal

• 7" Italy

• 12" France

• 12" Germany

• 12" USA

• 12" Spain

• 12" Australasia

• 12" Japan

• 12" Italy

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08/04/1986

BBC Radio Kid Jenson

PW Interview

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??/04/1986

Trip to Europe for TV & Radio interviews

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09/05/1986

TSCLP3 Home and Abroad is released 

Peaks at No_8 and spends 8 weeks in the UK charts

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• Also released in the following countries
   

• Argentina

• Germany

• Greece

• Japan

• Brazil

• Canada

• Peru

• USA

• Indonesia

• Italy

• Australasia

• Australia

• Spain

• France

• Portugal

• New Zealand

 

18/05/1986

Home and Abroad enters the charts & peaks at 8

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??/05/1986

Call Me is releases on 7" in the USA

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JUNE/1986

Recording sessions for the next album. (The Cost Of Loving)

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28/06/1986

28/06/1986 Clapham Common London - Benefit Artists Against Apartheid

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JULY/1986

Recording sessions for the next album. (The Cost Of Loving)

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26/071986

People In Progress.
Charity single for Sickle Cell Anemia Relief, South Africa.

PW & Dee C Lee

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AUGUST/1986

Recording sessions for the next album (The Cost Of Loving)

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21/03/1986

Shaw Theatre London - Secret Gig as The Party Chambers

29/08/1986

Rock Around The Dock - Liverpool

TSC perform Angel & It Didn't Matter

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SEPT/OCT/NOV/DEC/1986

The rest of the year is spent on recording and filming for Jerusalem

Steve White plays several gigs with his band The Jazz Renegades

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DEC/1986

TSC release It Didn't Matter in Japan on 7&12"

The B Side features a cover of Who Will Buy

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Tour Dates for "The General Election Tour" are published​