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ELECTROPATHICS
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The Electropathics' only album was recorded in June 1987 at Studio 1, Saughall, Chester, produced by Ed Korolyk and engineered by Ronnie Stone. It was released on LP and cassette.
To reflect its changing musical style, the band had just changed its name from the "Electropathic Battery Band", so the title of the album suggested itself.
The LP is no longer available and hasn't been re-released on CD. However it can be purchased as a download from CD Baby, Amazon and other digital distributors, including a bonus track - 'Harry Rag' from the Children in Need album
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Band Members
Pierce Butler - drums, percussion, harmony vocals
John Gregson - guitar, lead and harmony vocals
Keith Hancock - melodeons, hammered dulcimer, lead and harmony vocals
Howard Jones - melodeon, anglo concertina, hammered dulcimer, lead and harmony vocals
John Lewis - tenor banjo, mandolin, clarinet, tenor sax
Alan Rawlinson - trumpet, cornet, flute, trombone, sousaphone, lead and harmony vocals
Jackie Rawlinson - fiddle, harmony vocals
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Helter Skelter Very Shy Lost at Sea Russia Stonecracker John Rochdale Nutters |
Never Swat a Fly Jam up the Nuts/Jump at the Sun Whitsun Dance/The Bloody Fields of Flanders The Deviation/Gertrude's Villa Northfield Gaddafi's Gallop/The Old Bazaar in Cairo
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With the Electropathics you have, in a sense, heard it all before, but never all in one place: dance sets with brass band/trad jazz influences, Sacred Harp, songs from the Golden Age of Variety, danceable vignettes of a country becoming even cheaper and nastier, all of it deftly arranged to suit the required mood… An excellent, versatile band. Folk Roots
The Electropathics are a serious band who don't take themselves too seriously … The overall sound is very new and fresh. Rochdale Nutters "starts in Lancashire and moves ever rapidly eastwards, finishing somewhere near Chicago" - I reckon it's more like New Orleans and it's tremendous stuff … a band to be reckoned with. Taplas
A unique aggregation that mere words cannot describe … these lads crackle with more energy than the National Grid … a whole world party in their own right. Manchester City Life
A gem of a record from the now fully-automatic Electropathics. Anyone who hasn't seen them live would find it hard to believe the variety of styles which this highly original band contain in their repertoire, but this excellent debut album should soon convince them. Scans Folk Broadsheet
Weird, wacky and fairly wonderful Folk Roots
In the studio
Alan Rawlinson, with producer Ed Korolyk and engineer Ronnie Stone
Keith Hancock with Ed and Ronnie
Ed and Ronnie, with Jackie Rawlinson in the background
