Release
Just weeks before the release of the album, guitarist Dave Hill was interviewed for the Slade fan club newsletter where Hill explained why the album consisted of mainly previously used tracks. "Obviously a lot of the fans that have bought 'Return to Base', 'Six of The best' and one or two other things - they are going to have a lot of this material. But it is a compilation LP of a lot of the material that we have recorded over the last 18 months, which as the fans know, the majority of the public have never even heard. It's really for the benefit of the new fans that are coming along and who are in the fan club and have none of the old material. It won't be the same as 'Return to Base' as it will have a lot of the tracks pulled out and other numbers such as 'Dizzy Mamma' and 'Night starvation' and 'When I'm Dancin' I Ain't Fightin' added, making up a more rocky album. It will basically consist of the live act at the moment, so anyone who's into the live act should like the album. But for the benefit of the old fans, new material is in the pipeline. After this tour we shall be making a new single and a new album."
After the success of the album, Hill was asked in a fan club interview about trying to extend the band's new-found success in Europe. Hill responded "It's got to follow on. What we suffer from at the moment is that we haven't sorted a record deal abroad. There's only Belgium where we have actually got something sorted out - and we have had a bit of success there already. I think that over the next few weeks we have got to be very seriously sorting something out for Europe. I mean we want to be as big as far away as Australia, like we used to be."
After the album's release, drummer Don Powell was asked in a fan club interview as to why he no longer writes any Slade material. Powell replied "Well, the trouble is as I don't play any instruments, I can only write lyrics. And when I used to write with Jim, I used to have to try and sing to him how I thought the song should go, and he'd sing it back to check that he'd got the right thing, and then write it down. It would take a hell of a long time to get a song together. So as Nod and Jim write songs a lot quicker and better, I leave it to them."
In the September–December 1986 Slade fan club magazine, the poll results were announced for the 1986 opinion poll based on Slade’s material. For the best album sleeve, We’ll Bring the House Down placed at #2.
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