
March, 1995
March, 1995
(Santesson from Understanding Mu Pg 117, Paperback Library, New York)
Alan McGee
To follow up the release of the single Sixteen Years, The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy release a whole new album, Illuminate.
Release Date: April 3rd 1995
Catalogue Number: CRELP/CRECD 182
Illuminate, The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy's 10th album was produced by David J. of Love And Rockets/Bauhaus fame. On Illuminate the JBC deliver hook-laden pop froth with... bits floating in it. Something is amiss. This is the view from Abington Square...
A Great Visitation Of Elephants : Bolly saw the sharp end of the action in a number of recent conflicts while he was serving in the R.A.F. Now he runs a pub in a remote Northamptonshire village. Welcome to the Difficult Tenth Album.
Sixteen Years
: Defly manoeuvring their way around a Leveller's song
title, the JBC show up mob handed and do their collective
nut on behalf of Clause Four. Nasty, Brutish & Short... The
single.
Cute Submarines
: "Gee Flip! Will you really let me hold it?"... Dolphins
descended from cows... enraged Italian motorists... New Age
psychobabble. All in 3 minutes 45 seconds.
Lulu's Nightmare
: A simple narrative tale of human endurance:
"Cigarettes, Beer, Ticket Money... What could possibly go
wrong?"
Beetle George
: The JBC celebrate the lusty talent of Mr
Dave Henderson
.
Truck Of Fear
: "When the doomed go shopping, boy, there ain't no
stopping: we're just happy to be here."
Old Snakey
: Years of incarceration in the asylum, years of
desperate scrabbling in ancient texts, and then one night -
heads off!
Blues For Dean Read
: Dean Read was the American folk singer who contrived,
staggeringly, to become the biggest pop star in East
Germany. They're both gone now, forever.
When Eno Sings
: It's always difficult to sing about real people,
especially when they're famous. But fan records are cool.
Waiting For Sumo
: A surprisingly tranquil song about a rottweiller.
The Ugliest Song In The World
: The cannabis/adrenalin combo comes good again. A
song about a horrendous motion picture featuring,
unbelievably, Bob Dylan.
Scarlett
: "I've found it sir, this'll be the non-specific
situationaist art-misery ballad."
Cops And Hospitals
: Your kids are all evil. Your mother's a crook - do
you believe what they're telling you yet?"
Surf Gear In Idaho
: The JBC continue in pissy mood, trying to sneak up on
a few seedy wankers from the religious & nationalist right.
Land
: "One day Osiris will come & show a world of two
legged apes what they can do: but they will never belong
here. And they're gonna make a thousand points of light
upon the earth, but you know the only light comes from the
stars."
True Stories
: "What you want... what you want is miracles and
wonders, and aeroplane, a special view. True stories will
have to do.