Seven Minutes to Midnight (single)

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“Seven Minutes to Midnight”

Wah!/Goodbye and Ta! to the Enigmatic Reg.

Single by Wah! Heat

B-side

"Don't Step on the Cracks"

Released

September, 1980

Format

Recorded

Liverpool

Genre

Post-punk

Length

6:52

Label

Inevitable Records

Writer(s)

Wah!, Wylie, Carl Washington and Jonie (plus King Bluff)

Wah! Heat singles chronology

"Better Scream"
(1979)

"Seven Minutes to Midnight"
(1979)

"Forget the Down"
(1981)

'Seven Minutes to Midnight' was the second and last single released by Wylie's Wah! Heat incarnation. During this time the band had made major lineup changes and Younger had been replaced by Colm Redmond and Carl Washington who would become Wylie's right hand. The recording also featured keyboard player King Bluff for the first time. It was during this incarnation that they recorded their only Peel Session on May 19, 1980. The release of the single also marked the departure of Colm Redmond (who would join Faction for a short while and then join as a full time member on the post-punk band Pink Military) and the transformation of Wylie's first outfit into the better known four piece Wah!^[1].