SEX BEAT

From the birthplace of post-punk and goth rock, London’s legendary Batcave club, comes the first ever full-length collection of recordings by one of the bands that defined the era, Sexbeat!

Formed by Batcave DJ Hamish MacDonald, SEX BEAT never recorded a full studio album. But their 1984 recording of the scene-defining “Sexbeat” remains one of the crucial dance tracks of the Batcave era, and was elected #9 on Rolling Stone‘s Top 50 goth tracks. Sex Beat also cut another of the year’s most electrifying singles, the beat-driven, chant-laden “Pump,” and they were a constant presence on the live scene of the day, not only at the Batcave but elsewhere, too.

Releasing on November 29, Live at the Batcave and Other Dark Places captures the Sexbeat experience as its most torrid. But, if you can’t wait that long, there’s also a new single, the audience favorite “Girls,” recorded at London’s Lyceum in 1984.

Listen to the single: https://orcd.co/sexbeat_girlslyceum1984

Lost for decades, these historic live recordings offer a livid portrait of one of the era’s most pivotal acts – frontman MacDonald, bassist Sophie Chéry, drummer Linzi Light – in front of one of the most loyal audiences.

Hamish says, “We recorded most of these tracks live on stage in London in 1984, me, Sophie and Linzi, with various guitarists. Strung out on the mainstream rush, Sex Pistols’ backline, wearing leather, lace and Lycra, we took our chance. It was trash glam punk, a metropolitan mysticism, born out of what we created in those early Batcave days. It was girls and boys and all the rhymes and reasons. We rocked.”

“Pump,” of course is among the album’s highlights, and so is “Sexbeat,” which despite its pedigree, waited 40 years for release (as a standalone single on purple Cleopatra Records vinyl). But there is so much more here to relish, more than a dozen songs that fans have waited four decades to hear again – and presented here with full digital remastering, and exclusive (and revealing) liners by Hamish MacDonald himself.

“Furiously and Curiouser,” “Dogs Made Love,” “Voodoo Man,” “Violent Elation,” “We Will Come And See You” – these are the songs around which the Gothic Rock movement of the day evolved, and whose influence hung heavy across all who saw and heard the band.

Live at the Batcave and Other Dark Places will ensure that Sexbeat’s audience is set to grow even larger, and their memory spread even further. The beat goes on forever.