Batcave - Young Limbs And Numb Hymns (LP)

A real Batcave feast for you today starting with the documentary featured on the BBC music program 'Riverside' all those years ago (enhanced by h808).






A link to Pete Scathe's excellent Batcave article here and another link to a Danceteria flyer from the Batcave tour of the US - specifically New York 1983.


Followed up by David Dorrell's sleeve notes from the Batcave compilation LP - 'Young Limbs & Numb Hymns'...

"Look past the slow, black rain of a chill night in Soho; Ignore the lures of a thousand neon fire-flies, fall deaf to the sighs of the street corner sirens - come walk with me between heaven and hell. Here there is a club lost in its own feverish limbo, where sin becomes salvation and only the dark angels tread. For here is a Batcave.

This screaming legend of blasphemy, lechery and blood persists in the face of adversity. For some the Batcave has become an icon but for those that know it as an iconoclast. It is the avenging spirit of nightlife's badlands, its shadow looms large over London's demi-monde; it is a challenge to the false idol. It will endure.

Young Limbs and Numb Hymns is a sign of that strength. These nine tracks, these nine bands rally under the Batcave standard not to cry anthems for doomed youth but to sing praises to its unbound future. To sing with heart and soul. To sing with a hunger for what is theirs.

Your hosts in this house of Usher do not wait amongst the rabble of the arcane for the fall. Instead they strive for due success. That is something to be thankful for amidst this complacency. That is what these limbs ache for. They will succeed."


Finally, the album itself...

Batcave Compilation
Young Limbs & Numb Hymns (LP)
(London Records CAVE1 1983)

The Specimen - Dead Mans Autochop
Sex Beat - Sex Beat
Test Dept. - Shockwork
Patti Palladin - The Nuns New Clothes
James T Pursey - Eyes Shine Killidiscope
Meat Of Youth - Meat Of Youth
Brilliant - Coming Up For The Downstroke
Alien Sex Fiend - R.I.P
The Venomettes - The Dance Of Death




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