All Days Fade
The Cure of Kirkcaldy (not the cure for Kirkcaldy)
All Days fade was Cameron Campbell's and Clark Thompson's first gigging band. Cameron and Clark had the distinction of being in the only one of the Kirkcaldy Bands of this era to get signed to a major label - more on that later. Cameron, Clark, Ian Cargill and Mark Deas had all known each other at Viewforth High School. Cameron, Ian and Mark had formed the first line up of (what would become) the Crucified Brains.
Cameron started rehearsing with Clark Thompson on bass in early 1986. (Derek?) Swanson (Swanny) joined on drums sometime in 1986, I think Cameron placed an advert somewhere and he replied to it. Swanny had played in a pipe band, you can hear that from his style I think.
List of gigs:
1. 11th October 1986 – St. Clair Tavern, Kirkcaldy
with The Surgical Wars.
2. 6th December 1986 – St. Clair Tavern, Kirkcaldy.
3. 10th April 1987 – St. Clair Tavern, Kirkcaldy with The Faith
Screamers.
4. 14th August 1987 – Abbotshall Hotel, Kirkcaldy with The Twist
& The Receiving End.
5. 12th November 1987 – Abbotshall Hotel, Kirkcaldy with The
Receiving End.
6. 20th November 1987 – Boar’s Head, Auchtermuchty with The Twist
7. 5th February 1988 – Abbotshall Hotel, Kirkcaldy with Who
Cares!? & Silent Falls.
8. 1st April 1988 – Abbotshall Hotel, Kirkcaldy with The Twist.
9. 2nd September 1988 – Panthers, Kirkcaldy.
In the late '80's, All Days Fade seemed to be playing all the time, the band worked very hard. I feel like I must have been at their headliner gig at the Skittle in December '86, but can't remember that clearly. They got press attention when they split! They played their last gig in September 1988, almost two years after their first. Swanny had bowed out already, Colin Livingston of the Twist, who also played drums for Who Cares? and, at the beginning, Darlingheart, sat in on drums. Then Cameron and Clark then added a new singer and a different drummer, called themselves "The Amused" and gigged around a bit, before changing singer and drummer again and morphing into Darlingheart, then, a contract with Phonogram, support slots on a national tour with Blur, a feature on STV, national press attention. The rest was, briefly, history.
The MP3's below are all from All Days Fade's
first gig.Ian and I are sitting next to the Marantz machine and
quite a lot of our dialogue is captured - this makes for a more
atmospheric tape. You can also hear Neil McDougal,the Bouncer at
the St Clair Tavern shouting for the stripper.
All Days Fade St Clair Tavern October 11 1986 - 1
All Days Fade St Clair Tavern October 11 1986 - 2
All Days Fade St Clair Tavern October 11 1986 - 3
All Days Fade St Clair Tavern October 11 1986 - 4
All Days Fade St Clair Tavern October 11 1986 - 5
All Days Fade St Clair Tavern October 11 1986 - 6
All Days Fade St Clair Tavern October 11 1986 - 7
All Days Fade St Clair Tavern October 11 1986 - 8
All Days Fade St Clair
Tavern October 11 1986 - 9
These two were from the Stupified compilatiton.