The Jazz Butcher - The Gift of Music :: Zero G Sounds

 Nice Jazz Butcher posting today from Twilight Zone and this long out of print compilation of the first two EPs and extra tracks expanded into an album is well worth having if you're a fan ( you should be!) 

The Jazz Butcher - The Gift of Music 1988 - Zerosounds

We visited Jazz Butcher when we lost Pat Fish last October at the untimely age of 64 so this is a welcome memorial to him above the others as I said at the time. From Northampton though the band formed in my home town here in Oxford they dug a particular niche for themselves.  The Jazz Butcher's figure alongside a lot of other British Eighties bands like many of the quirky witty knowing bands like The Lilac Time or Theaudience, Scritti Politti,Young Marble Giants or Ballboy and singers like Robyn Hitchcock, Stephen Duffy or Roddy Frame and that early Britpop surge.

Anyhoo enjoy, I think you will

PAT FISH - R.I.P.

Pat Fish of JAZZ BUTCHER DIES (64)

Sad to report that Pat Fish of Jazz Butcher has died

If you didn't know Jazz Butcher then maybe you should . . . . . . . . they were great, typically English ( British - ED!) and had that kind of eighties sound shared by bands like Pulp, Young Marble Giants, Divine Comedy, Stephen Duffy (The Lilac Time), even Aztec Camera (Roddy Frame) or Half Man Half Biscuit et al in that they sounded like where they were from and wrote about everyday kitchen sink mini drama. I rank Jazz Butcher up there with them . . . . . . . . . . .

GUESS I'M DUMB posted these and I think you will like them . . . . . . . I do!

• Track Name

  Keeping the Curtains Closed

• Album

  Fishcotheque

• Artist

  Jazz Butcher

• Track Name

  Girlfriend

• Album

  A Scandal in Bohemia

• Artist

  The Jazz Butcher

• Track Name

  Nothing Special

• Album

  Draining the Glass

• Artist

  The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy

source: guessimdumb:

The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - Nothing Special 

But I don’t want the sea 
And I don’t want the beach 
And everything I do what is out of reach 
And I ain’t gonna do a single thing 
Gonna be the man who sat down 
And I ain’t gonna laugh 
And I ain’t gonna play 
I wish I could be a thousand miles away.

Born Patrick Huntrods in London in 1957, Fish formed the Jazz Butcher musical project – which has gone under a variation of different names over the years – in 1982 with Eider. His début album, ‘In Bath Of Bacon’, was released by Glass Records in 1983.

From 1988 through 1995, The Jazz Butcher released a series of albums for Creation Records, including ‘Cult Of The Basement’, ‘Condition Blue’, and their final release for the label, ‘Illuminate’. The Jazz Butcher’s last new release was the 2016 single ‘All The Saints’, released via Fire Records.

While much of The Jazz Butcher’s catalogue was out of print in the late ’90s and ’00s, Fire began a reissue campaign a few years ago, including the recently announced ‘Dr Cholmondley Repents: A-Sides, B-Sides and Seasides’, which is expected to arrive November 12.

David Whittemore, who has been running The Jazz Butcher website since the beginning, has set up a memoriam, where fans have been paying tribute to the Fish – you can contribute here.

Pat Fish - NME