The name Jack Clutton will perhaps ring a small brass bell to those avid Citizen Fish fans who noticed his name on the back of their early releases, credited as 'A Jack Clutton Production'.
He disappeared for most of the 90s, and reappeared with brother Frank playing dual cathart plucks for beer money in what used to be local pubs. Apparently. Am I getting paid for this? ok
Although throughout their debut deboo doobedoobedoo CD release, 'Spring Collection', a number of references are made to a sheds and suffering, it has been asserted by critics of the genre that butter would melt in the mouth of childs before any sheds were found with Clutton prints on the latch, and the whole 'thing' was 'some neo-retric assumptive reversal curve gone wrong'. Such allusions notwithstanding YOU'RE FIRED/// Hi you lovely people and welcome to the Clutton Brothers' apostrophically correct introduction bit, which you WILL need, as no-one bar the few so far has heard [of] us, what with the 2 releases so far being so far away from the shelves of what used to be called 'shops', and the fact we don't do gigs. The homemade nature of our tunes and the semi-spontaneous 4-track recording methods would probably bracket us in with the hordes of bedroom-stained tapeheads who never see daylight and have favourite pens, but for the fact that we can't afford to do this very often, let alone all the time, as we Do Other Things As Well, including Things Musical and Getting Out Now and Then.//FAQ? none so far but here's some pre-emptives....ONE- wozzit saand like? Andy Martin of Unit [and once of the Apostles] writes: "on first hearing it strikes me as the kind of thing teenagers used to do on cassette circa 1982 when they'd been suspended from school...two reference points occur to me: Wire and The Swell Maps...UJ has borrowed the CD, primarily cos he was fascinated by the lyrics and the fact that 2 men probably old enough to be his dad would lock themselves in a garden shed and do these things with neither shame nor humility....after perusing the CD for a while, he said 'these guys sound like the sort of eccentric uncle you read about in kiddie books that you wish you had in real life.'" To be more [or less] precise, the songs are a mixup of punk ska reggae sonic noise spoken word and slunge, some are instrumental, some spontaneous, some worked out in fine detail....TWO- what's SLUNGE? Slunge is what you get when the neo-retric assumptive reversal curve has gone wrong. THREE that's enough questions////there are some songs here to help answer Q2, and both CDs [Spring Collection -2003- and Turned Out Nice Again-2005] can be found on Bluurg Records via heading to www.citizenfish.com ///yours, in or out of the shed, Jack/Frank
BY THE WAY! that Mental song on our songstack, called Fun In Camden, is from their new and only LP ('Extended Play LP') now out on DemoTape Recs and Bluurg Recs...the band split up 239 years before computers were invented, so we added a song for them...
