The Shithouse Masters - notes by Steve

batch 5
9/94 - 6/95

Ilkeston - Superhero - No Lizard King - Say Something - Lie-Dream of World Travel - Sad Face - Reader and The Poster-Girl - Heading South - Got It Easy - Reverence (Jesus and Mary Chain) - The Last Mod - Trouble Free - Vision Cube - JD Stomp - Je Voudrais une Glace

This is where we started hitting our stride, I think. Ilkeston is either our attempt at summing up our ambivalent feelings about our home town or some cod white-boy rapping; Got It Easy is another classic collaboration with Albert; Vision Cube and Trouble Free are proof that 4-tracks can 'do loud'.

At this time we had our first contact with Laurent & Virginie of Candy Chérie, France, who approached us to do a CD single - this would eventually become the 4th Butch Master 7" single the following year (see the singles page for more info). The tracks intended for the CD were Real Life, Heading South, Superhero, Say Something, The Last Mod and Vision Cube.

Laurent and Virgine were kind of obsessed with the Jesus and Mary Chain, releasing 3 volumes of tribute albums - our funked-up version of Reverence was recorded for one of these.

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