Radio Rats – Into The Night We Slide

Tracks

1. ZX Dan [5:20]
2. I’m Not Like That [4:37]
3. Plague Café [3:37]
4. Bomb Shelter Blues [4:27]
5. I’m In Love [2:40]
6. Law And Order [2:56]
7. A Visit To The Cinema [5:27]
8. Rocking [2:07]
9. Stay In Your Rocking Chair [3:25]
10. Mucking About In The Dungeons All Day [4:30]

Bonus tracks on CD reissues

11. Rocket Road
12. Crazy Caroline released as a single in 1979

Session tracks

Tracks rehearsed and performed live in 1978 but not released on this album.

• Queue of No Return
• Waiting for the Boot
• Angst Inside the Met released on Third Street in 1995 (possibly a re-recording)
• Turn on the Gas
• Theatre of Electric Chairs re-recorded and released on Theatre Of Electric Chairs in 1995
• Man After You re-recorded and released on Road Songs
• Guildhall Dilemma re-recorded and released on Cyanide Lake
• Jiving and Dying re-recorded and released on Theatre Of Electric Chairs in 1995

Recorded during August & September 1978. Released in October 1978.

The title track does not appear on this album and was first released on Via Dolorosa in 1988 and also on Third Street in 1995.

Five of the songs on the “Into The Night We Slide” album were originally recorded live in July 1978, and released on Live At The Market Theatre 1978.

Release Information

LP: October 1978, Jo’Burg Records, TJC 13035
LP: 1988, RPM, RPM 1243
CD: 1993, One World Entertainment / Radium Wreckords, WOND 119
CD-R: 1999, Radium Wreckords (limited edition)
CD: November 2002, Fresh Music, FRESHCD131

Musicians

• Jonathan Handley: guitars, vocals
• Dave Davies: vocals
• Herbie Parkin: bass
• Leonard Dixon: drums

Interview

From The Hip With Benjy Mudie, 3 July 2025

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