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The Jazz Butcher reveals limited edition bookback CD ‘Dr Cholmondley Repents: A-sides, B-sides and Seasides’ (out 12th November).

Listen to the first singles 'Sixteen Years/Rebecca Wants Her Bike Back'/pre-order here

“The Jazz Butcher is one of the most brilliant incisive pop writers that Britain has produced since the glory days of Ray Davies and Pete Townshend” Alan McGee, Creation

Fire Records next spring will follow up its collection of the first four albums by The Jazz Butcher, Pat Fish’s long-running U.K. indie-pop outfit, with a new box set called The Violent Years that compiles the next four LPs, all originally released on Creation Records between 1988 and 1991.

Due out March 9 on streaming/download or in a 4CD box set encased in a book, The Violent Years collects straight, bonus-less reissues of Fishcotheque (1988), Big Planet, Scarey Planet (1989), Cult of the Basement (1990) and Condition Blue (1990). The collection can be pre-ordered now via Bandcamp.

Also, unearthed on the 'tube are some recent video segments where Pat talks briefly on a variety of topics. Click the 'Etc' tab over in The Viewing Room.

Featuring ‘Bath Of Bacon’, ‘A Scandal In Bohemia’, ‘Sex And Travel’ and ‘Distressed Gentlefolk’. Purchase Here

Christmas With The Pygmies

1992 CBC professional Brave New Waves Condition Blue-era interview.

1992 WNUR Chicago College radio interview with a couple of live tunes.

1992 WXYC Chapel Hill, NC radio interview + tunes

1992 WRAS Atlanta radio interview which includes the 'Sydney Meats Story'.

1990 WTBS Austin, TX radio interview

Village Voice 1999-09-23, Time Out 1999-09-23, Seattle Rocket 1999-09-16, Seattle Newspaper 1999-09-16,

The Entire Show

posters and announcements

1986-04-04, 1986-08-14, 1987-05-29, 1988-04-08, 1989-09-01, 1990-03-13, 1990-03-14, 1990-03-16, 1990-09-15, 1993-11-15, 1994-02-17, 1995-09-13, 1995-12-21

1993-11-15, 1993-02-16, 1993-02-21, 1987-02-10

1987-08-02, 1987-02-02, 1988-04-08, 1990-03-13, 1991-10-21, 1993-02-16, 1994-07-07, 1995-09-13,

Credit: Pierre Guillaume

The Man Who Changed Our World (French)

Pat and David J play 4 songs, and then Alan Moore takes the stage (*that* set is not included in this download)

Good old press.

It's press week.

I'd almost forgotten about press week.

Australia! Italy! Croatia! France!

Pat

A new album , tentatively entitled 'The Highest in the Land', is scheduled for Autumn 2016.

The JBC of course marches on. Pat has turned my departure into an opportunity before now and I have no doubt he will do so again. In truth, he’s already got that covered. And we may yet record together again. The last album wasn’t too shabby after all.

And if, at some time in the future, you should happen to see me propping up the bar at a JBC show somewhere while Pat does all the hard work, do come up and say hello.

Many thanks again

Maximilian Theodore Eider III (aged 55 and a half)

Buy Max Eider's Duck Dance, over at maxeider.com

(here is Eider's last recorded gig with the JBC, and here is Eider's last gig with the JBC)

We hope to see you out and about at one of these shows.

Pat x

If you prefer to donate a large proportion of the cover price to some dotcom billionaire or other, the album is also available at Amazon, CD Baby, iTunes and most other digital retailers when they get round to adding it.

Also on the horizon, it looks as though I might well be going to play solo in Japan, supporting the Monochrome Set in Tokyo October 24th and 25th . (Eider won't be joining me on this trip.)

I'm also in talks with Alan McGee about a solo acoustic show at his new venue The Tabernacle, which is a beautifully refurbished chapel in a village in Wales!

Confused yet? Splendid! Right. I shall probably be sending some dope on the new loungecore combo shortly. Hopefully, a few more dates as well.

Pat xxx

We enjoyed brief, surreal trip to Japan, playing to lovely, knowledgeable audiences and meeting the charming Stuart Moxham, who, as part of Young Marble Giants, had been a profound influence on us when we were but youths.

While Max holed up in his Northern fortress, Pat gamely rode the Eurostar to Brussels to play an electric set to a gaggle of sophisticats in a concrete basement and negotiated the mysteries of online check-in for a flight to Germany, where he played some solo shows and joined up with Paul Wallfisch, Thomas Truax and Markus Maria Jansen for concerts in Hamburg and Dortmund under the spurious 'supergroup' handle of The Almost Has Beens. It's all been most enjoyable.

We have plans for one or two UK appearances later in the year.

What we are now looking for is engagements for Pat and Max, performing as a duo, in Germany, Belgium, France and the USA.

Now, a word of warning is in order here. We really are seeking only professional, paid gigs in venues where people come to listen to music, rather than rock out and riot or, indeed, spend the evening enjoying a nice chat with their friends. Whereas a band can compete with a noisy room, two ageing nutters on stools are best enjoyed in a somewhat more...uh...sedate environment.

It's easy to be tempted into trying to do a DIY job of putting on your favourite band in your local venue. 'How hard can it be?' is the seductive question. The cruel answer is: 'Harder than you think.'
It's not just a question of paying two old lunatics for sitting around playing songs. We have to pay our travel expenses and we need some sort of vaguely civilised accommodation. (We are, to be honest, getting a bit too old and fragile for kipping on our friends' floors!) We need fed and watered too, and we need some razor wire to keep Fishy safe from the enraged 'smoke-free' fundamentalists.

While we have, over the years, occasionally enjoyed brilliant DIY nights organised by fans in their local bar, the truth is that the live music game can be very hard these days and we don't want to see people who like us losing money. So while we are in no way 'against' DIY gigs, we do urge that you make sure that you know exactly what you're doing. Do feel free to e-mail us if you have any questions.

Our main hope is that one or two of you lovely people out there will actually have connections to a club or a promoter who might be interested in putting us on and that you might be able to point us in their direction, or, indeed, point them in ours.

If you want to make some enquiries, send us a message at www.facebook.com/jazz.butcher.official or e-mail us at tundraducks[at]-remove-[at]-remove-btinternet.com

All suggestions gratefully received, folks.

Currently only available for download by pledgers. Physical media and iTunes download will be available in a few weeks.

To celebrate, Wilson will be reforming for a special one-off show at The Picturedrome, Kettering Road, Northampton NN1 on Friday 7th September 2012.

Tickets for the event cost £2:50, exactly the same as at Wilson's very first show in March 2001.

The DVD will be available to buy at the Picturedrome show. Further availability details to follow.

Cheers, Pat x

There is, in fact, a lot more to it than that: check out our page on Pledgemusic and you will see that there are all manner of strangely diverting things available to those of you who choose to support us.

Pledgemusic is an international company which has successfully funded projects for the likes of Cornershop, Viv Albertine, Amanda Palmer and Ian McCullough. They can deal with international payments, exchange rates and all that stuff. Your money is safe with them and, if for any reason the album doesn't go ahead, you will get it back. The fundraising project runs until the beginning of September.

Please help us out with this one. Check out our page: here

...As will the Wilson movie. We gave a sneak preview last week at a local film night...which was in the venue where we played the gig. So

There are clips from the Wilson DVD to be seen on teh youtube.

Also, at the beginning of September the Creation Records movie comes out. It's called 'Upside Down' and I think the premiere is in London on the 5th September. I'm in the movie and there will be some London gigs around the time of its release. There's a trailer up on the YouTube at the moment.

Max Eider's new album is out and available at the newly-renovated Eider website

Those of you who haven't seen me for a while will find themselves confronted with large swathes of new material, both acoustic and electric.

This seems like a good opportunity to say that I've had a really wonderful time this year, so thanks to all my lovely colleagues in Wilson and the JBC, thanks to all the artists who have come and played my mad little club, and thanks most of all to everybody who has come to our club nights and gigs and to everybody who has helped and supported us this last twelve months. Special shouts to Pete and Sophie at The Racehorse for their endless kindness; John Purcell for lights fantastic; Steve and Duncan at Phoenix Soundworks for technical support way beyond the call of duty; Andy Skank for involving me in the World of Budvar and everybody at the Labour Club for putting up with me and my noisy mates; and, of course, to David for hosting the worldwide wonderland that is jbc.com. A happy Christmas and a sterling New Year to you all.

Love,
Pat

Title: The Jazz Butcher's Free Lunch
Release date: October 20th
Label: Rev-Ola
Cat. No: CRREV 54

Vinyl Japan also has made available the LONG awaited re-issues of Distressed Gentlefolk, A Scandal in Bohemia and the new Glass-era compilation, Cake City.

On Saturday 19th February 2000 in Northampton NN1 Pat Fish and Max Eider signed a contract with the record company Vinyl Japan to make a new Jazz Butcher Conspiracy LP. The record, which will feature all new material from Max and The Butcher, has the working title 'Big Cat Diary'. Bear in mind, however, that the Conspiracy are also rather taken with the title 'Just Plain Sick'.

Pat and Max will be recording in March at the home studio of sometime JBC guitarist Peter Crouch. There are also likely to be contributions from Archbishop Gabriel Turner, Sumosonic percussionist Russ Cooper and others.

The record will be released as both a CD and a vinyl LP. Hooray!

Horror!

Vinyl Japan are hoping to have the record released by June 2000, at which point the JBC will set off for their first ever concerts in Japan. The dates are: Sat 17 June : Tokyo Sun 18 June : Tokyo Tue 20 June : Osaka

Club information will follow when we know it.

The JBC line-up will be:

Pat Fish - Guitar, Singing Max Eider : Guitar, Singing Owen Jones : Drums, Singing Steve Valentine : Bass, Singing

Support on all dates will be Dislocation Dance, with a short solo set by Max as well.

Find out more about Vinyl Japan by visiting their website: www.vinyljapan.demon.co.uk .

(Those who have signed up for the$100 EP should not fear. The tunes on their record remain exclusive to them and will not be appearing on the new LP.)

Mayhem!

Max is also surprised to announce the imminent re-release of his ancient and improbably named solo effort 'The Best Kisser in the World' (now the Second Best Kisser in the World?). All complaints and objections once again to Vinyl Japan, please.

I contributed a track, recorded on Curtis' computer. It's a version of 'Indian Summer' as written by the Beat Happening, and recorded by Luna and Spectrum. (In fact, that's me on lead guitar on the Spectrum version, but that's another story. You should probably point out to people that this is a new version altogether.) The record also features Jonathan Richman, B-52s, Pansy Division, G-Love and a bunch of others. At your favourite online store now!

As of March 1998, the Jazz Butcher and Creation Records have parted ways.

Max Eider , who left the group in the 80's is back.

Pat Fish 's follow-on project Sumosonic, is well worth your time.

featuring Pat Fish , Max Eider , Owen Jones with David J. in L.A. and Kevin Haskins in L.A., S.F., and N.Y.C!

The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy starring Pat Fish and Max Eider will be appearing (with a local bassist & drummer) at The Point in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (404.659.3522). Tickets $8. Call for availability.