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