A Lucky Thief In A Careless World

by Band Of Holy Joy

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Homage to William Burroughs' Naked Lunch @50. Recorded in London May 2009. Performed in Paris July 2009.

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	1.	Around By The City Of Rack And Ruin 04:54
	2.	A Face You'll Never Forget 04:23
	3.	Cold Blows The Wind 04:44
	4.	The Captain 05:01
	5.	Conditions Fraught With Peril Here 04:04

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Radio Joy CD01
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A limited edition recording that marks Radio Joy’s homage to William Burroughs at the University of London in Paris. The occasion itself was the Lunch@50 convention to honour the 50th anniversary of Naked Lunch. The Invocation to William continues…

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"It felt like a dangerous game; was that your aim?"
Oliver Harris' interview with Johny Brown after Naked Lunch@50, European Beat Studies Network ebsn.eu/scholarship/interviews/johny-brown-interviewed-by-oliver-harris/

"It’s a controlled sound, which makes it all the more effective when they cut loose later."
Den Browne, Mudkiss Fanzine www.mudkiss.com/bandofholyjoy.htm

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released September 1, 2009

Dominic De Grande - piano
Paul O'Donnell - bass
Chris Brierley - violin and voice of the captain
Johny Brown - voice and text
Hilary Jeffery - trombone
Patou Soult - waterphone

Artwork and design by Inga Tillere.

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Band Of Holy Joy London, UK

Band Of Holy Joy have mutated endlessly since their origin as a kind of trashbin industrial folk collective, through early experiments in an intensely poetic form of ambient postpunk, to near chart-contenders on a then-failing Rough Trade, free of bitterness but with greater heart… and more recently onward to a series of albums of gently anthemic social culture and political critique. ... more

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