Live! At The Butchery With Special Guests On Fire

VINYL FORMAT. Prisoners Go Go Band's one and only record is a remarkable thing. It was created in the early 1980s in a South Africa under apartheid, which was not only hostile to 'race mixing,' but culturally conservative, as well. While punk and alternative music existed, it received scant attention by major labels and no radio airplay. Certainly, a mixed-race band influenced by Can, Red Crayola, Pere Ubu, Henry Cow, and Derek Bailey was not prime for mainstream hearing. They never played a live show - neither the music they played nor the ethnic make up of the group allowed for that - but they did record their music. In a desolate part of Johannesburg, in a IY recording studio, the three members drafted some friends (the 'special guest on fire') and recorded hours worth of songs and sounds. Four years ago we started to make that happen, and now it exists. Live! At the Butchery with Special Guests on Fire has been mastered from one of the few clean copies of the original record. The original handmade packaging has been recreated to be as close to the original as possible. Liner notes telling the story of the record, culled from the words of one of the band members, are included. This pressing is limited to 330.