Dalek I Love You - Part 2

After more than one year after their last vinyl release Dalek I Love Your reappeared with another single(18 September 1983).

Ambition

b/w (I Am) Hot Person / Would You Still Love Me (on the 12”)

The A-side was to be included (even if in a slightly different version) on the forthcoming self-titled album, released on 4 November 1983.

Dalek I Love You
1. Holiday in Disneyland [album version]

2. Horrorscope [album version]
3. Health and Happiness
4. The Mouse That Roared

5. Dad On Fire

6. Ambition [album version]

7. Lust

8. 12 Hours of Blues

9. Sons of Sahara

10. Africa Express

The Credits read like this: Chuka Russo: backing vocals (6, 8); Chris Hughes: drums (2, 10); Drummie Zeb: drums (8); Gary Barnacle: electric sax (7), sax (8); Randy Taylor: bass (1, 6).
What is most interesting is that for this album Alan Gill (left in the blue picture) decided to share the vocal duties with the other ‘stable’ members of the band: Gordon Hon (on tracks 1, 3 and 5, center in the blue picture), Keith Hartley (on tracks 2 and 6) and Kenny Peers (on tracks 4, 6, right in the blue picture). Gill only sang on three tracks (7, 8 and10)
By the time the lp was released Hartley quit (in the b/w with David Hughes, ex- member of Dalek I, taken from the back sleeve of the Godot single).

Later the same year the band released their final vinyl release, the single

Horrorscope b/w These Walls We Build Pic Sleeve (7” version) – Heap Big Pow Wow / Horrorscope (instrumental) / The Angel and the Clown (on the 12” version)

Talking about the last days with the band, Gill remembers: “It was a more pressured time than the first album, though. To a large extent, the fun had gone out of it. We were a bigger group at that point, there were more people in the band, and it was our attempt to achieve pop success, even if ultimately we never did well financially.”
“Afterwards, I didn't want to be involved in commercial music again. There was a lot of stress and unhappiness with the business side of things. Put it this way: there was more pressure to be successful than to make a good record. Problem was, we were artists whereas it had become about selling records. We were a bunch of recluses who didn't really want to deal with the world.”
In 1985 Gill contributed two tracks to the soundtrack of Letter to Brezhnev (1985, among which the main theme), and in the same year he established his own label, Bopadub, to release cassette compilations.One of these releases (BOP 04) was (or was supposed to be) a new DILY record, but pieces of information about this are scare and fuzzy. Yet, on the official site of the band (http://www.dalekiloveyou.com/ ) you can find a song taken from that album King of Clowns.

See also:
http://robinparmar.com/dalek-i-love-you.html
http://osamdesete.blogspot.com/
http://burningflame.wordpress.com/
http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Dalek_I_Love_You