Never Apologise Never Explain was the eight full-length album by the band Therapy?

Therapy?

Therapy? is an alternative metal band from Northern Ireland. The band was formed in 1989 by guitarist–vocalist Andy Cairns from Ballyclare and drummer-vocalist Fyfe Ewing from Larne, Northern Ireland. The band initially recorded their first demo with Cairns filling in on bass guitar...

, and the second to be released on Spitfire Records

Spitfire Records

Spitfire Records was a subdivision of Eagle Rock Entertainment located in New York, United States.In September 1998, Paul Bibeau founded, launched and rapidly developed Spitfire Records Inc. from a two-man operation located in his home bedroom in suburban Long Island, New York, to one of the...

. It was released on September 27, 2004. The album was recorded in June 2004 at Parkgate Studios, Hastings

Hastings

Hastings is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England. The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86,900....

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"Never Apologise Never Explain" marked a return to the claustrophobic sound of the bands’ early releases. It failed to chart in the Top 200 of the UK Albums Chart. The album was not released in North America.

The album was released on CD only. A limited edition CDROM of the album contains two live videos ("Teethgrinder" & "Who Knows") from the Scopophobia

Scopophobia (dvd)

"Scopophobia" is a DVD release by Therapy? on Eagle Vision, a subsidiary of Eagle Rock Entertainment on October 27, 2003. The bulk of the DVD is a full length 19 track concert recorded live at the Mandela Hall, Belfast on June 6, 2003....

 DVD.

Polish label Metal Mind Productions

Metal Mind Productions

Metal Mind Productions is a Polish record label founded in 1987. Currently it is one of the lead independent labels in Poland with over 1000 of licences and over 10 million of data mediums sold. The label focuses mainly on rock and heavy metal genres...

 re-released the album on November 2, 2009. The album was remastered using 24-Bit technology, limited to 1000 copies, on a gold disk digipak CD.

Track listing

All songs written by Therapy?

1. "Rise Up (Make Yourself Well)" – 2:49
2. "Die Like a Motherfucker" – 2:42
3. "Perish the Thought" – 3:41
4. "Here Be Monsters" – 2:45
5. "So-Called Life" – 3:10
6. "Panic" – 2:03
7. "Polar Bear" – 3:40
8. "Rock You Monkeys" – 3:06
9. "Dead" – 2:37
10. "Long Distance" – 3:32
11. "This Ship Is Sinking" – 3:18
12. "Save the Sermon" – 3:03
13. "Last One to Heaven's a Loser" – 3:22

Personnel

• Andy Cairns
  Andy Cairns
  Andrew James Cairns , is a founding member, singer, guitarist and songwriter for Therapy?, a hard rock band from Northern Ireland.- Therapy? :...
  
   - Vocals, Guitar
• Neil Cooper
  Neil Cooper
  Neil Cooper is best known as the current drummer with Therapy?, a hard rock band from Northern Ireland, and formerly of The Beyond, a hard rock band from England....
  
   - Drums
• Michael McKeegan
  Michael McKeegan
  Michael Robert McKeegan is best known as the bassist with the rock band, Therapy?.-Evil Priest:...
  
   - Bass
• Pete Bartlett
  Pete Bartlett
  Pete Bartlett is a record producer and sound engineer from Brighton, who is now based in Salisbury. He is best known for his work with Lush and Therapy?.- Albums Produced :* Lush - Lovelife * Therapy? - High Anxiety...
  
   - Producer/Mixer
• Simon Wakeling - Engineer
• Giles Hall - Mixer
• Chris Potter & John Davis - Mastering
• Iona Bateman - Photography
• Simon Leigh - Photography
• Curt Evans - Design

Singles

• "Polar Bear"/"Rock You Monkeys" was a double A-side download only single released on June 13, 2005 with a live version of "Die Laughing" from the Alive Festival in Belgium
  Belgium
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  , July 31, 2004.
• "Rise Up (Make Yourself Well) was released as a radio only single in 2004.
• "Die Like A Motherfucker" was released as a radio only single in 2005.
• "Long Distance" was released as a radio only single in Belgium in 2005.
• "Perish The Thought" was released as a radio only single in Belgium in 2005.

Promo Videos

• "Rise Up (Make Yourself Well)": Directed by ?
• "Rock You Monkeys": Directed by Andre Thyret

Origins of the phrase

This originator of this commonly used phrase, often attributed to the hardline politicians of the House of Windsor

House of Windsor

The House of Windsor is the royal house of the Commonwealth realms. It was founded by King George V by royal proclamation on the 17 July 1917, when he changed the name of his family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English Windsor, due to the anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom...

 (British Royalty), Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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, Benjamin Disraeli and others, is said to be John Arbuthnot Fisher, a notable British Admiral of the Victorian and Edwardian era. ("Boldness has genius, power and magic in it ... Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologise”).
And even earlier, King Charles I of England is quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, first published by the Oxford University Press in 1941, is an 1100-page book listing short quotations that are common in English language and culture....

as writing "Never make a defence or apology before you be accused", in a letter to Lord Wentworth as long ago as 1636.