ROGUE MALE: Belfast [1986 Music For Nations 3-track 12" NWOBHM vinyl single with unreleased elsewhere song] Check video!

ROGUE MALE Belfast
(1986 UK Music For Nations 3-track 12"
vinyl single, taken from their 2nd album Animal Man, also includes Rough Tough [Pretty Too] and Take No Shit, picture sleeve 12KUT122). Their "Belfast" EP from that selfsame year of 1986 is an excellent slab of 12" black vinyl brought to us by the excellent folks at Music For Nations Records. The title track was chosen to showcase the then impending release of 2nd (and final) album, "Animal Man", and it's status as the albums highlight has not diminished in the years since the records release. This EP was also the only place you could get the track "Rough Tough (Pretty Too)", which was also good reason to seek it out. The final song on here is "Take No Shit", a great anthem, and a sentiment which has become a personal credo. That chorus was tailor made to make you feel ten feet tall and bullet-proof.

Tracklisting / Additional Info:
1. Belfast
2. Rough Tough (Pretty Too)
3. Take No Shit

Time now for some of the old NWOBHM, which was released to much fanfare in the UK Metal press by Music For Nations in 1984. Formed by former members of DEEP MACHINE, LE GRIFFE and DIRTY TRICKS, Rogue Male were being touted as the "next big thing" by the press in 1984. Unfortunately they didn't catch on with the general public ultimately, whether as a result of their "Road Warrior" image or the hype in the music papers. It can't have been the music though, for it's fantastic, great big guitars, great big choruses, and the lyrics eschew the cock-rock-squawk of the times for the most part focusing on social & political themes. They don't make 'em like that any more, they wouldn't dare!