Clinic Wheeltappers And Shunters
Vinyl LP pressing. After an unprecedented seven year break, Clinic - Liverpool's cherished post-punk pop experimentalists - return with album number eight. The unusual name is taken from the long-forgotten 1970s ITV variety show The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club, compered by Bernard Manning, which recreated the smoky, boozy atmosphere of Northern working men's clubs for a sofa-bound audience. This album is neither a celebration nor a denigration of the culture of the era in which Adrian Blackburn and his collaborator-in-chief, Jonathan Hartley, grew up.
- 1. Laughing Cavalier
- 2. Complex
- 3. Rubber Bullets
- 4. Tiger
- 5. Ferryboat of the Mind
- 6. Mirage
- 7. D.I.S.C.I.P.L.E
- 8. Flying Fish
- 9. Be Yourself/Year of the Sadist
- 10. Congratulations
- 11. Rejoice!
- 12. New Equations (at the Copacabana)