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Gig phots from Martin Reed
Martin Reed shares his photos from 3 gigs - including the Sumsonic debut: 1997-03-11, 1999-09-23, 2005-09-19
2020-01-10
(While en-route to 1989 Germany dates, Pat Fish answers "Big Questions" for CBC radio listeners)Credit: Dana Mottahead
2019-11-24
1983-04-19 Courtesy its author.Credit: https://twitter.com/NeilCooper1
2018-04-01
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.
2017-12-26
Expansive book-styled package of the first four albums from The Jazz Butcher’s early Creation Records’ years – 1988-1991.
Featuring the much praised ‘Fishcotheque’, ‘Big Planet, Scarey Planet’, ‘Cult Of The Basement’ and ‘Condition Blue”.
Featuring ‘Bath Of Bacon’, ‘A Scandal In Bohemia’, ‘Sex And Travel’ and ‘Distressed Gentlefolk’.
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Release date: January 19, 2018 (LP)
The Jazz Butcher’s Brave New Waves session was recorded on June 5th, 1988 in CBC Studio 13 in Montreal. The recording is taken from CBC Archives reels and remastered at Grey Market Mastering in Montreal, by Harris Newman.
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Re: Box Sets
therecordstop[at]-remove-aol.com - Thomas USA
22Sep2019 4:19 AM (121 days 4 hours ago)The Violent years and Wasted Years boxes were great. Are we going to see a 3rd covering the last 4 albums? We really should! Thanks
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22 of june's gig
les.guillaume[at]-remove-club-internet.fr - Pierre Guillaume Besançon
30Jun2019 12:52 PM (204 days 19 hours ago)Hello,
Seems to be quiet a gig...!
Too bad Northampton, UK is so far from Besançon, France... -
Hello
rene[at]-remove-blossombeauty.us - Rene Walczak Indy
14Feb2019 6:19 PM (340 days 13 hours ago)Will always find my way back JBC Rosemary Davis where E U? Cheers Pat!
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Reviews on AllMusic
emailaddyshows[at]howcomeitdoesthat - Justanotherdarnedex-critic, Somewhere USA
21Sep2018 4:32 AM (1 year 122 days ago)Was looking through your website and noticed you didn't have links to reviews at the AllMusic website for your albums. The ones there are generally very positive, so you might want to do so. I wrote some of them, so I should know... BTW, love most of your stuff I've encountered (though have only heard through "Cult of the Basement"), with "Scandal in Bohemia" being my favorite -- truly fine stuff. Here's a link to that review:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-scandal-in-bohemia-mw0000017476
You might be aware of them, but if not, you may want to take a look. Best wishes! -
Wasted Years CD's
johnnybrew[at]-remove-comcast.net - John Hall (Indianapolis)
12Jan2018 1:49 PM (2 years 8 days ago)I am curious if the Wasted years re-issue have been remastered/remixed or whatever. I already own all these discs, though my copy of Big Planet/Scarey Planet has a very annoying skip during one of the songs. I also thought the vocal tracks on that album were a little muddy or surpressed.
Always happy to send some cash Pats way. His music has lifted my life for over a quarter century. (That's Big Scary).
Pat, I am the same brewer from Chicago you met on the 2000 tour. Still brewing and playing your music in the brewery every chance I get.