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Artist: Cabaret Voltaire
Album: Red Mecca
Release Date: 1 Mar 2004

''Red Mecca'' is an album by the Industrial music|Industrial/Post-punk band Cabaret Voltaire (band)|Cabaret Voltaire. Released in 1981 on Rough Trade Records (ROUGH 27), it was their final album before the departure of Chris Watson. It reached No.1 on the UK Independent chart in September 1981<ref>Lazell, Barry. ''Indie Hits 1980-1989'' (Cherry Red books, 1997), p.311</ref>

Background
In November 1979 Cabaret Voltaire toured the United States, and became strongly interested in the rise of the Christian right and its use of television, especially the fund-raising broadcasts of TV evangelist Eugene Scott. They compared this to the rise of Islamism, devoting a side to each strand of religious politics on their 1980 mini-album ''Three Mantras''. ''Red Mecca'' was a culmination of this interest. According to Richard H Kirk: "The whole Soviet war in Afghanistan|Afghanistan situation was kicking off, Iran had the Iran hostage crisis|American hostages...we were taking notice...it's not called that [''Red Mecca''] by coincidence. We weren't referencing the fucking Mecca Ballroom in Nottingham!"<ref>Reynolds, S. ''Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984'' (Faber and Faber 2005), pp.171-2.</ref>

Track listing
Side A
# "A Touch of Evil" - 3:11
# "Sly Doubt" - 4:59
# "Landslide" - 2:08
# &q

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