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The press release read.....
Blaggers I.T.A. have announced details of a nationwide
tour and a new year single following their departure from
Parlophone / EMI. The band, released from their contract
six months before their option was due to be reviewed, requested
that they be allowed to leave the label after intense frustration
and dissatisfaction with the labels efforts on behalf
of their Bad Karma album and Mantrap single.
"While clearly there were some individuals within
EMI who were very supportive of the band, particularly
the MD, by August they were a small minority" explains
manager Al Rhodes. "We could understand not being top
priority at a label like EMI - we just werent
prepared to not be on the list of priorities at all".
The band, on signing to Parlophone, suggested that
"weve nicked this van called EMI and were
gonna smash it through the plate glass window of the music
business" but Rhodes ruefully remarked, "It was
onlty after wed got in the driving seat that we realised
we couldnt get it up to 40."
This single was on Orange vinyl and was limited to 2000
copies, it reached No.13 in the Indie charts.
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