
These files are for non-commercial, personal amusement.
Live
2015
2015-12-12
The Playhouse Theatre
, Northampton
, England
The Entire Performance (Extracted from youtube video)
Credit: The Jazz Butcher Quartet
2013
2013-06-17
The Cake Shop
, New York
, USA
The Entire Performance
PDF suitable for CD
Credit: Lito Vales
1999
1999-09-13
Sy Klopps Studios
, San Francisco
, USA
She's On Drugs
Girlfriend
Soul Happy Hour
Walk With The Devil
Rough mixes of a practice session recorded by Henry Sarmiento at Sy Klopps Studios in San Francisco.Credit: David Whittemore
1999-09-09
Troubador
, Los Angeles
, USA
D.R.I.N.K.
1997
1997-09-22
The Great American Music Hall
, San Francisco
, USA
Who Loves You Now?
La Mer
Raking Up The Leaves ( Max Eider )
Water
Just Like Bettie Page
Rough mixes of a flawless night out for Pat and Max. Recorded to 8-channel digital.Credit: David Whittemore
1997-09-19
Bob & Anne's Wedding
, Seattle
, USA
Who Loves You Now?
Angels
Recorded and mastered from the live mix DAT. Pat + Max, Joe Skyward (bass), Greg Gilmore (drums)Credit: David Whittemore
1997-09-17
Practice for Bob & Anne's Wedding
, Seattle
, USA
Girlfriend
Pineapple Tuesday
2nd practice prior to Bob & Anne Frangooles' wedding in Seattle, Washington. Pat + Max, Joe Skyward (bass), Greg Gilmore (drums)Credit: David Whittemore
1997-09-16
Practice for Bob & Anne's Wedding
, Seattle
, USA
The Basement
1st practice prior to Bob & Anne Frangooles' wedding in Seattle, Washington. Pat + Max, Joe Skyward (bass), Greg Gilmore (drums).Credit: David Whittemore
1994
1994-06-04
Royal Albert Hall
, London
, England
(Creation Records 10th anniversary mega-gig)
(Creation Records 10th anniversary mega-gig)
Jdete Pryc (The audience accosts the JBC with shouting in Czechoslovakian)
Credit: David Whittemore
1993
1993-12-23
The Racehorse
, Northampton
, England
The Entire Performance (EQd from Master Cassette)
Christmas gig. Pat is joined by David J.Credit: David Whittemore
1993-10-28
The Forum
, London
, England
The Entire Performance (Mono, from Master Cassette)
1992
1992-06-17
The Nick
, Birmingham
, USA
Banter (Between-tunes - talking about the Highlander Hotel in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Credit: David Whittemore
1992-05-16
Tower Records
, Chicago
, USA
After Hours (Velvet Underground)
Tugboat Captain (Dean Wareham)
In-store performance.Credit: David Whittemore
1992-05-09
El Mocambo
, Toronto
, Canada
Over The Rainbow (Arlen/Hamburg)
Falling In Love
Angels
Racheland
Credit: David Whittemore
1992-05-01
9:30 Club
, Washington
, USA
Sister Death
Credit: David Whittemore
1992-04-29
J.C. Dobbs
, Philadelphia
, USA
The Entire Performance (Mixed-down from master DAT)
Credit: David Whittemore
1992-04-26
Cat's Cradle
, Chapel Hill
, USA
Everybody's Talkin' (F. Neil)
Still & All
Susie
Girls Say Yes
She's On Drugs
Sister Death
Racheland
The "1 mile per hour Art Misery tour".Credit: David Whittemore
1991
1991-11-14
Arena
, Vienna
, Austria
The Entire Performance (1st Gen Cassette)
Credit: Alexander Vrchoticky
1991-08-00
Nitronic Research Wind Tunnels
, Silverlake
, USA
We Are The Traffic (#1) (Pat Fish/Cole Coonce)
We Are The Traffic (#2) (Pat Fish/Cole Coonce)
"Cambodia": Pat Fish /Cole Coonce
1991-07-00
Woodhouse Studio
, Leeds
, England
A Matter of Time (13 Frightened Girls)
Bombed (Richard Formby)
Pedby's Grace (Pat Fish/Sumishta Brahm)
Colour Waltz (Pat Fish/Richard Formby)
Elwood (Pat Fish/Sumishta Brahm)
"The Vaguely Familiar": Pat Fish / Richard Formby / Sumishta Brahm
1989
1989-12-10
The Coach House
, San Juan Capistrano
, USA
The Devil Is My Friend (West Coast '89 Cassette)
Mr. Odd (West Coast '89 Cassette)
From Pat's "West Coast '89" compilation cassette (2nd generation), courtesy Andrew Brooksbank.
1989-12-09
Roxy Theatre
, Los Angeles
, USA
Bach Intro + Big Saturday (West Coast '89 Cassette)
Burglar Of Love (West Coast '89 Cassette)
The Best Way (West Coast '89 Cassette)
Looking For Lot 49 (West Coast '89 Cassette)
Girl-Go (West Coast '89 Cassette)
From Pat's "West Coast '89" compilation cassette (2nd generation), courtesy Andrew Brooksbank.
1989-11-28
Commodore Ballroom
, Vancouver
, Canada
Moscow Drug Club (West Coast '89 Cassette)
Intro + New Invention (West Coast '89 Cassette)
Chickentown (West Coast '89 Cassette)
Bicycle Kid (West Coast '89 Cassette)
Angels (West Coast '89 Cassette)
Bad Dream Lover (West Coast '89 Cassette)
Hysteria (West Coast '89 Cassette)
From Pat's "West Coast '89" compilation cassette (2nd generation), courtesy Andrew Brooksbank.
1989-11-18
Ratskeller
, Madison
, USA
The Entire Performance
Credit: David Whittemore
1989-11-17
Lounge Ax
, Chicago
, USA
Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group Of All (John Cale)
Moscow Drug Club (B. B. Gabor)
Partytime
Part-Time Punks (TV Personalities)
Big Saturday
Hysteria
Credit: David Whittemore
1988
1988-08-07
Town & Country Club
, Kentish Town, London
, England
(Doing It For The Kids)
(Doing It For The Kids)
The Entire Performance (Extracted and EQd from mixcloud)
Excerpted and pitch-corrected from Creation Records all-day recordingCredit: Creation Records
1988-05-02
Dingwall's
, London
, England
The Entire Performance (Extracted from youtube video)
Pulled from file originally uploaded to youtube.Credit: FruitierThanThou
1986
1986-12-02
Szene Wien
, Vienna
, Austria
The Human Jungle (Gen1, from cassette soundboard source.)
Soldiering on, one week after the exit of Max Eider .
1986-07-24
R.P.M.
, Toronto
, Canada
The Entire Performance (Radio broadcast, from 1st generation cassette)
Credit: David Whittemore
1986-03-04
University
, Besancon
, France
The Entire Performance
Credit: Dom Genot
1985
1985-04-23
Onkel Pö
, Hamburg
, Germany
The Chinese Envoy (Gen1 cassette) (John Cale)
"I can see you if I take off my glasses" - Max Eider
1985-03-24
Kolingsborg
, Stockholm
, Sweden
The Entire Performance (Gen2 Cassette)
Interviews
2017
2017-06-12
Norwich Radio/C86 Interview
The Interview
Excerpted from radio broadcast. Topics: The Smiths, early history, La Mer , playing the sax, David E. BarkerCredit: David Eastaugh
2017-03-20
"Near Perfect Pitch" podcast #35
The Interview
Excerpted from @NearPerfPitch's podcast #35. Dara Mottahed and Pat (via Skype) catch up on happenings since the previous podcast.Credit: Dara Mottahed
2016
2016-05-09
"Near Perfect Pitch" podcast #1
The Interview
Excerpted from @NearPerfPitch's inaugural podcast. Dara Mottahed and Pat (via Skype) chat about recent band history. And football.Credit: Dara Mottahed
2014
2014-11-12
RTVE - Radio Televisión Española - Radio 3 with Julio Ruiz
, Madrid
, Spain
(Live on the air with Julio Ruiz)
(Live on the air with Julio Ruiz)
The Interview
Melanie Hargreaves' Father's Jaguar
From interview session with Julio Ruiz.
1993
1993-02-15
French National Radio
, Paris
, France
The Interview (In French, from Gen1 Cassette)
1992
1992-06-26
WHPK
, Chicago
, USA
The Interview
Excerpts
Credit: David Whittemore
1992-05-16
WNUR
, Chicago
, USA
The Interview (Master recording. College radio interview with a couple of live tunes)
Credit: David Whittemore
1992-05-06
CBC
, Montreal
, Canada
The Interview
Credit: Brent Brambury
1992-04-26
WXYC
, Chapel Hill
, USA
The Interview
Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group Of All (John Cale)
A Butcher acoustic performance of the John Cale tune.Credit: David Whittemore
1992-04-25
WRAS
, Atlanta
, USA
The Interview (Gen 1 Cassette. Includes the 'Sydney Meats Story')
Credit: David Whittemore
1990
1990-11-24
KCRW
, Santa Monica
, USA
Crocodile Tears And The Velvet Cosh (David J.)
The Chinese Envoy (John Cale)
Partytime
From Deirdre O'Donoghue's SNAP program on KCRW, Santa Monica, CA. Recorded by Martin Stebbing (Rev. Botus Whiteblood Fleming) . Pat and Alex duets with lots of chatter.
1990-11-19
KTBS
, Austin
, USA
The Interview
Credit: Robert Jacob
1989
1989-11-19
Pat Fish
, Milwaukee
, USA
Topic: Robyn Hitchcock
Topic: David J's "The Party's Over"
During The Milwaukee Interview Pat muses on being compared to Robyn Hitchcock, and talks about David J.Credit: Brian Kelly/David Whittemore
1986
1986-07-18
Background Noise Productions
The Interview
Pat Fish & Max Eider in Washington, DC the night of the Jazz Butcher's show at the 9:30 Club.Background Noise Productions is: John Collins, Steve Yegelwel, Andy Schoengold, Jim Black, and Jimmy Mitchell
Credit: Background Noise Productions
Wilson
November, 2005 Demo
April, 2003 Demo


Recorded at Notepad, NW10 by Andy Parker. Produced by Donald Ross Skinner. All tunes conceived, devised & assembled by Wilson. Tracks contain elements of everything.
Istanbul Connection
Quality People
2002 Demo


Recorded by MC Bot on the Roland VS-1800 at Subsound, NN1 during 2001 and 2002. The words to "Play It All Night Long" are by Warren Zevon. Everything else is original pirate material. Increase the peace.
Quality People
Istanbul Connection
Hippy Shit
Play It All Night Long
Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Dark Agenda
Sumosonic
Come, Friendly Spacemen
This is fun. Here's the midi file for Come, Friendly Spacemen
"Audio Aquatic" Demo

Credit:
Andrew Brooksbank
"Audio Aquatic" was an early working name for Sumosonic. Most tracks from
this tape are the same as the later "Demo Cassette".
Come, Friendly Spacemen
This is an "extended" version, with approximately 90 seconds more beat breaks.
Demo Cassette

Unlike the Creation "This Is Sumo" release, Pat sings lead on all tracks.
Come, Friendly Spacemen
Monks Of Kung Fu
God's Green Earth
Business And Work
Destroy All Monsters
Stupid
Everything Is Wonderful
Fern Schnell Gut
Cat's Life
My Ultimate Baby
We Are The Traffic
Sputnik
Black Eg
1994
1994-06-01
The Sound Shaft
, London
, England
The Entire Performance
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Black Eg's Live Debut!
Credit: David Whittemore
1993
1993-08-20
l'esprit formidable (demo tape)
, Northampton
, England
After Vietnam (Black Eg demo)
Drugs Rumble #1 (Black Eg demo)
Bel Air (Black Eg demo)
Mogadon (Black Eg demo)
Lulu's Dog (Black Eg demo)
No Answer (In Cambodia) (Black Eg demo)
I Will Survive (Black Eg demo)
Sexual Taboos (Black Eg demo)
La Rage Le Sarcasme Et La Betise Humaine (Black Eg demo)
After Vietnam (Ambient Mix)
Tonight You Belong To Me (Black Eg demo)
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1992
1992-09-15
Peter Murphy (demo tape)
, Northampton
, England
Do Ya Wanna? (Black Eg demo)
Our Friends The Filth (Black Eg demo)
Coney Island Nightmare (Black Eg demo)
Ezcsta (Black Eg demo)
L.A. Stories (gameboy mix)
The Hypnotic Eye (Black Eg demo)
L.A. Stories (metal mix)
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1992-06-26
WHPK
, Chicago
, USA
The Interview
Excerpts
Credit: David Whittemore
Etc
JBC Rarities
Tracks that appeared on early compilations and singles.
Christmas With The Pygmies
From Christmas With The Pygmies (1985)
Affection (Jonathan Richman)
From VA: Shadow And Light (1984).
Recorded May 1983, "Cak Bag session", Sketch Studio, Northampton
Temptation Inside Your Heart (Velvet Underground)
From VA: Another Spark (1984).
Recorded from the May 1983, "Cak Bag session", Sketch Studio, Northampton
May I (Kevin Ayes)
From Speedy Gonzalez (1987)
Poor Spy
Unreleased.
Recorded May 1983, "Cak Bag session", Sketch Studio, Northampton
Chinese Envoy (John Cale)
From VA: What A Nice Way To Turn Seventeen #2 (1983)
Cowgirl Fever
Marnie 12" single B-side (1984)
Vodka Girls
From VA: Abus Dangereux #21 (1994)
"Cult Of The Basement" rough mixes and alt takes
Excellent!
King Tut
Pineapple Tuesday
Fertiliser (Yes, Mantor)
Girl-Go
The Onion Field
Sister Death
Provided by Martin Stebbing (Rev. Botus Whiteblood Fleming) , the session engineer.
Fan Tribute Discs - c. 2000
Downloadable high-quality MP3s of Jazz Butcher songs as covered by the musician/fans of the jbc mailing list and elsewhere. All tracks with annotation by the Butcher.
The Vaguely Familiar
Demo tracks from the July 1991
Pat Fish
,
Richard Formby
, and
Sumishta Brahm
collaboration.
A Matter Of Time
Bombed
Pedby's Grace
Colour Waltz
Elwood
Cambodia
Demo tracks from the August 1991
Pat Fish
and Cole Coonce collaboration.
We Are The Traffic (#1)
We Are The Traffic (#2)
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4May2017 10:33 AM (353 days 40 minutes ago)This is wonderful. Thank you for posting.
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24Jan2015 2:57 PM (3 years 88 days ago)hi, greatly appreciate the archival music. most is nowhere to be found. request zombie love/pet semetary from the 13Mar1986 cricketers gig! also request the pat-demo of regrets of a spaceman. too-bad nowhere to be heard
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Manhattan Cake Shop show
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24Oct2013 6:36 PM (4 years 180 days ago)Just saw that the Cake Shop show was made available for download. Thanks for being both incredibly talented and impossibly generous
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2Apr2013 5:20 AM (5 years 21 days ago)Yes, Emma. Remember him fondly.
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31Mar2013 3:25 PM (5 years 22 days ago)Hey pay
Reading through my brothers diaries and knowing he mentions the tour in the states etc question is do u remember Stephen Harry Harris