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"A New Day"
Single by Killing Joke
A-side	"A New Day"
B-side	"Dance Day"
Released	July 1984 (July 1984)
Genre	Post-punk
Length	8:28
Label	E.G. Records
Songwriter(s)	Jaz Coleman Kevin "Geordie" Walker Paul Raven Paul Ferguson Chris Kimsey
Producer(s)	Killing Joke Chris Kimsey
Killing Joke singles chronology
"Eighties" (1984) "A New Day" (1984) "Love Like Blood" (1985)
7" B-Side
A New Day Side B Inner Sleeve

"A New Day" is a single by English post-punk band Killing Joke. It was released by E.G. Records in July 1984 as a 7-inch and 12-inch single. The B-side to the 7" release was a remix of the song, named "Dance Day". The single reached No. 51 in the UK Singles Chart. A promotional video was filmed for the song, the first time the band made a video for a non-album single.

The song was later included on the 2008 reissue of Night Time. "Dance Day" was later included on the compilation "Wilful Days" (mistakenly titled "A New Day").

Reception

Muriel Gray at Smash Hits said, "A very dated guitar riff announces the fact that we're not to expect anything new from Killing Joke in this latest release. They're apparently attempting to sound threatening and raw, but the band have always been a little bit guilty of being pantomime punks, and this just reinforces that pastiche."

Track listings

The 7-inch single featured "Dance Day" as the B-side. The 12" single featured a dub mix of "A New Day" as its A-side and the original track as the B-side. A 7" release in Portugal used a shorter edit of "A New Day" instead.

7" vinyl single

Side A

1. "A New Day" – 04:08

Side B

1. "Dance Day" – 03:40

12" vinyl single

Side A

1. "A New Day (Dub Mix)" – 04:20

Side B

1. "A New Day" – 04:08

Charts

References

1. ^ Official Charts Company - Killing Joke. OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved on 2010-07-05
2. "A New Day". Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2008.
3. Muriel Gray. "Singles". Smash Hits (19 July 1984): 23.
4. "A New Day Portugal 7″ single". Discogs. Discogs. Retrieved 9 April 2020.

External links

• A New Day music video on YouTube

• 1984 songs
• Killing Joke songs
• Song recordings produced by Chris Kimsey
• E.G. Records singles
• Songs written by Jaz Coleman
• Songs written by Geordie Walker
• Songs written by Paul Raven (musician)
• Songs written by Paul Ferguson