Albums

Television Personalities and The Jazz Butcher Reissued

September 25, 2020

For our next Record Store Day (Saturday 26th September) releases we have the next instalment of our Television Personalities box set ‘Some Kind Of Happiness?’ Singles 1994-1999 and the classic albums from The Jazz Butcher ‘Fishcotheque’ (1988), ‘Big Planet, Scary Planet’ (1989), ‘Cult Of The Basement’ (1990), ‘Condition Blue’ (1991), reissued and remastered on vinyl for the first time since their initial release.

Visit your local indie record shop, or visit their website, to purchase these special releases.

TELEVISION PERSONALITIES – SOME KIND OF HAPPINESS? SINGLES 1994-1999

Limited Edition Double LP with Gatefold Sleeve

A two-disc retrospective of every single track released by The Television Personalities between the tail end of 1994 and 1999. Featuring legendary songwriter Dan Treacy, a gifted storyteller who places the world in his own hazy shade of focus, heading deep into introspection.

Featuring all the EP and single tracks that originally appeared on a host of indie pop labels, it’s a cohesive trip into the mind of the songwriter along with a host of his favourite cover versions.

All in a lavish package with extensive sleeve notes and unseen photographs.

THE JAZZ BUTCHER – CONDITION BLUE

Standard Black Vinyl

Sees The Jazz Butcher now solo but with a band playing “smart pop songs with cleverly twisted lyrics, ringing guitars, and sad sax solos; a poppy kind of music that’s slightly nostalgic and still hip,” quipped Option magazine. Pat is still “punning, clever displays of hurt and revulsion.” Select

THE JAZZ BUTCHER – BIG PLANET SCARY PLANET

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“This was a real “band” album by a touring unit which had become really quite ferocious.” Pat Fish. The sound is bigger, symphonic –all swirling guitars behind the vitriol and conjecture; a post-Smithsian screenplay for Coronation Street. Sounds reckoned it was a “Vicious mismatch of outrage, black humour and sentiment.” And Mick Mercer in the Melody Maker said: “Good old Butch –bringing you tomorrow’s shit today.” He liked that. Perfect.

THE JAZZ BUTCHER – FISHCOTHEQUE

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“This was a rock ‘n’ roll thing, not some “eccentricity”. I had my shades and I had my fringed suede jacket and I had the Weather Prophets’ rhythm section,” recalled Pat.

THE JAZZ BUTCHER – CULT OF THE BASEMENT

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Sees them withdrawing very much into their own mad little world, something’s happening here. There’s still jangle but it’s wrestling with accordions. It’s “lean, jazz and cabaret-style pop gems” claimed All Music.

“A disconcertingly fine magnum opus which, if it emanated from a more in-vogue source, would currently be having its maverick genius analysed to death” the Melody Maker added.