Paul Martin
The Jazz Butcher was the vehicle of prolific singer/songwriter Pat Fish, an archetypal British eccentric whose sharp observational wit and melodic gifts navigated the group through over a decade of constant line-up shifts, stylistic mutations and even a series of name changes which found the band performing variously -- and apparently randomly -- under such titles as the Jazz Butcher Conspiracy and the Jazz Butcher & His Sikkorskis From Hell. Fish was born Patrick Huntrods in London in 1957, and raised primarily in Northampton. He first began performing while studying philosophy at Oxford in the late 1970s, fronting the short-lived Nightshift; a subsequent band dubbed the Institution later joined forces with their rivals the Sonic Tonix, establishing the nucleus of players who later formed the core of the Jazz Butcher sphere.
Fish first concocted his Butcher persona in 1982, quickly enlisting his Oxford mates to join him in a band of the same name; even from the outset, the group's...
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Group Members...
- Max Eider
- Pat Fish
- Alex Green
- David J
- Owen Jones
- Paul Mulreany
- Kizzy O'Callaghan
- Laurence O'Keefe
- Felix Ray
Titles by Paul Martin
| Title | Product Type | Format | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fishcoteque | Music | Other | October 23, 2007 |
| Condition Blue | Music | Other | February 12, 2007 |
| Draining the Glass: 1982-1986 | Music | Other | September 19, 2006 |
| Big Planet Scarey Planet | Music | Other | May 23, 2005 |
| The Jazz Butcher's Free Lunch! | Music | CD | November 25, 2003 |
| Distressed Gentlefolk | Music | LP Record | July 25, 2003 |
| Jiggery-Pokery | Music | CD | October 15, 2002 |
| Draining the Glass: 1982-1986 | Music | CD | August 13, 2002 |
| Distressed Gentlefolk | Music | Cassette Tape | March 11, 2002 |
| Distressed Gentlefolk | Music | CD | November 13, 2001 |
| Distressed Gentlefolk | Music | CD | November 13, 2001 |
| Cake City | Music | CD | November 13, 2001 |
| Cake City | Music | LP Record | November 13, 2001 |
| A Scandal in Bohemia | Music | CD | November 13, 2001 |
| Rotten Soul | Music | CD | September 12, 2000 |
| Songs for Summer | Music | CD | February 8, 2000 |
| Glorious & Idiotic | Music | CD | January 25, 2000 |
| Revenge of the Killer Pussies | Music | CD | September 7, 1999 |
| Big Planet Scarey Planet | Music | CD | July 11, 1999 |
| Condition Blue | Music | CD | July 11, 1999 |
