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More Life After Death

by Blood and Roses

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Paradise 02:17
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Jesus 02:10
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Roles 03:20
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Strychnine 01:39
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Necromantra 02:46
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Possession 02:35
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Curse On You 02:12
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ShM YHShVH 02:50
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Sllaf Rewot 02:53
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FU 777

Lisa Kirby, singer with Blood and Roses, died on the 20th December 2013. She deserves a better memorial than these tracks. Her most accessible work remains available on the Anagram/Cherry Red compilation "Same as it Never Was". If you want to find out what these recordings are all about, seek out the notes to "Life After Death". Gathering this material and getting into an almost passable state has been something I have been working away at for a while. Lisa's untimely death spurred me to pull my finger out.

This is special interest stuff and has no commercial market. Whilst Lisa's talent deserved a proper retrospective, the music business is not interested. Forgive the imperfections of these recordings. Imagine how they should have sounded in a perfect world.

Here lies the remainder of tracks from the original Life after Death Cassette and some more little things I've managed to discover in the piles of unmarked of felt tipped grizzled cassettes that mark the band's legacy.

The Casanove Road porta studio demo has suffered worst. I have been unable to locate any original masters which is a shame because that was the tape that got us a record contract. It was the grittiest recording we had made - capturing the toughness of live performance. The tracks I have used come from best available sources but many are fifth or sixth generation dubs. The organ and vocal version of Jesus continues to elude all searches.

But miracles appeared too. A copy of the demo the band did at Wickham Studio right on the back of the Peel Session. Finally, I've found the whale noise version of Possession and the first version of Your Sin with that glorious piano hook over the chorus. The major missing piece of that puzzle is a slow take of Tomorrow featuring Lisa in flying form. My cassette is chewed at that point. I spliced the tape with cellotape and saved the rest of the songs.

I found some different tapes of the work in progress 2nd album. Early rough mixes with more of the guitar lines present. The cassette was a mess but what can you do. Had a bit of "Dragons at Dusk" without vocals - but not enough to bother you here with.

No. You can't have the peel sessions. Can't afford the rights. The BBC thinks they're worth thousands. If they were, Cherry Red would have nabbed them. They can be heard on the internet if you search though the sound is pretty much on a sub par with the worst on offer here. Can't afford the rights to the 12 inch single stuff either but I found some reasonable alternate versions. They don't have the production cleanliness of their more familiar siblings but I think the roughness is nice. There's a faster take of ShM YHShVH which lost out to the slower version on "The Whip".

Who's playing what? I don't know. Ralph took over on bass sometime during those Wickham demos. Parrot may have drummed on Slaff Rewot, if it counts as playing if it's on a tape playing backward with drunken idiots speeding and slowing it up. Slaff was a projected b-side to a second single from "Enough is Never Enough" - an abbreviated version of Breakdown with a little more guitar. I don't think anyone has heard these since they were done. They were on a reel to reel that was pretty much destroyed. Here they make their first outing to the world.

And that's your lot, apart from a recording of Blood and Roses at the Ambulance Station that was bootlegged back in the day. I'll see what I can do with that soon.

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released December 31, 2013

Cover painting by Bob Short

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