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Check the exclusive video showing this 12″ for sale

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 same 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 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 03:56
2. Rough, Tough (Pretty Too) 03:52 [Unreleased elsewhere]
3. Take No Shit 04:57 [Unreleased elsewhere]

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Rogue Male (UK)-Belfast 1986

Rogue Male. “”Belfast””. Track list: 1. Belfast 03:56 2. Rough Tough (Pretty Too) 03:52 3. Take No Shit 04:57

If you wondering why the band named a track after the city of Belfast, Belfast is Jim Lyttle’s (Vocals, Guitar) home town!

EP, Music For Nations, 1986.
Current line-up:
Jim Lyttle – Vocals, Guitar – also in Pretty Boy Floyd and the Gems, Visa and Pictures
John Fraiser-Binnie – Guitar – also in Ozzy Osbourne and Dirty Tricks
Pete Dee – Bass  – also in Acid Reigh, Kremated, Viral Technology and Acid Tongue
Paul Westwood – Drums  – also in Fen, Indesinence, Landskap, De Profundis, Skaldic Curse and To-Mera

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 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!

In the ’80s, metal was quite a codified and uniformized world, but some bands managed to stand out with a strong identity. ROGUE MALE was definitely one of these bands, mixing the new wave of British heavy metal to punk roots wrapped in a post-apocalyptic image. Seeing them play “Take No Shit” and The SEX PISTOLS’ “Pretty Vacant” on TV show Les Enfants du Rock was the moment that really got me addicted to them. I was into bands like MÖTLEY CRÜE, TWISTED SISTER, W.A.S.P. and SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK at that time and was just discovering punk through the PISTOLS, and in a way, ROGUE MALE was mixing the best of all these worlds.
More than 25 years later, songs like “Take No Shit” are lyrically still relevant to this day and age. So check the live “Take No Shit” video below from that French show: “les enfants du rock” on Antenne 2.

Another must buy:

KERRANG NO. 101 1985 (Rogue Male on cover, Dio, Russ Ballard, YnT, Kiss, Doro, Cherry Bombz, Debbie Bonham, Heavy Pettin