Pat Fish

I come from the 20th Century. I was born in West London at the end of the fifties, and I swear that things really were in black and white back then. As a small boy with a love for Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, I remember seeing Doctor Who and the Beatles for the first time the same rainy Saturday afternoon in 1963. As I grew a little older I was exposed to the full impact of the Beatles, the Pink Floyd, the Avengers and the Prisoner. I was also introduced to the work of my softly-spoken, charming "Uncle" Terry. He turned out to be Terence Fisher, director of Hammer studio horror pictures. Listen, pal. I was a goth before you were a goth. Believe meFrom 1983 I wrote, sang and played with The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy. We made a bunch of records (many of which you can now find on I-Tunes) and toured the world. We had a good time nearly all the time and I'm profoundly grateful to all concerned. Here we are, Max, Steve Valentine, Kevin Haskins and me, playing at a punk festival at the Echo in Los Angeles in October 2009. Filmed by my good pal Cole Coonce,



These days I spend most of my time in Northampton NN1. It's a cool sort of town where most people still have a functioning bullshit detector. I like to go out and play gigs whenever and wherever I can. Sometimes I play completely acoustic, just man and guitar, which is something like what you see on this video from London's 12 Bar Club a couple of years back.



Other times I like to play electric with my dirty lo-fi home-made backing tracks. Here's footage from the 100 Club in London shot in 2008 by my friend Sumishta Brahm.



And here I am at the same venue in 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmOj5s-9dz0
As Max likes to say, I will contentedly play to three men and a dog in a village hall, and it is true that I'm always looking for "work". If you have any interest in booking me to come and play at your social event, you have come to the right place. Do please feel free to send a message and we can discuss logistics. Virtually nothing is impossibleSmokers! I will happily play in your home. It's like going out but more fun.