“was this EP released before the LP or after?”

The recording was released on the first Rodney On The Roq album before the “Blue” album was recorded. The 7″ pressing was released only much later in 1990.

There were a dozen or so gold “award” records given out in early 1981 … Tony Brandenburg threw his out into the audience at the Starwood in a fit of pique. All that was manufactured were the pink coloured Posh Boy labels which were stuck onto some Mexican pressings, the “Gold” records.

The first time a single version of “Amoeba” was cut was in 1990 for that series of re-issues.

Apparently my old nemesis Lisa Fancher bought one of these gold awards off eBay. Mine hangs in my library in Ladismith, South Africa after hanging for the previous 10 years in Phuket, Thailand.