SEALED RECORDS HAVE today (11 July 2025) re-released a collection of demo recordings by Passion Killers in 12-inch vinyl and digital formats.
The release comes just as Passion Killers reunite to play the band’s first live dates since 1984, beginning with a show in Leeds (13 July) and then at the 2025 Rebellion festival (8 August [acoustic] and 9 August)
This collection of 1983 studio recordings originally circulated in cassette format and first secured a vinyl release on the Demo Tapes label back in 2010.
They Kill Our Passion With Their Hate And Wars is released on white and on black vinyl and in streaming and download digital formats from Sealed Records’ Bandcamp site.
Passion Killers were from Barnsley, South Yorkshire and featured Dave Lentil, Daz White and Boffo. All three members were later, heavily involved in Chumbawamba but at the time of this demo Boff was already only on loan from Chumbawamba. This 1983 Demo was recorded in one day at Lion Studios, Leeds and features 11 melodic, simple, anarchist pop songs. The Band had already shared a split tape with Chumbawamba on Sky and Trees but this demo is the jewel in the crown of the Passion Killers recorded work. It features ‘Start Again’ which was released by Crass on ‘Bullshit Detector 2’. The LP comes with a 16 page 11×11-inch booklet featuring photos, lyrics, handouts, clippings and other stuff.
First released 15 years ago on vinyl by Demo Tapes and resurrected now by Sealed Records.
— Sealed Records
Passion Killers. 2025. They Kill Our Passion With Their Hate And Wars. Sealed Records. https://sealedrecords2.bandcamp.com/album/they-kill-our-passion-with-their-hate-and-wars-lp.
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