Illuminate

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"Pat Fish/The Jazz Butcher is one of the most brilliant incisive pop writers that Britain has produced since the glory days of Ray Davies and Pete Townsend. Criminally overlooked by a media obsessed by the next big thing instead of what is actually good. A truly great songwriter, surely due promotion to the premiership this time"
Alan McGee

Release Date: April 3rd 1995
Catalogue Number: CRELP/CRECD 182

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."