Various Artists

• DOUBLE VINYL LP
• GATEFOLD SLEEVE EDITION
• come with full-size leaflets

Presented in a lovely gatefold sleeve, with a full-size booklet containing superb, specially-commissioned sleevenotes by Kitch biographer Anthony Joseph, and fabulous, previously-unseen photographs

First there is the hooligan chantwell, up for anything in the hurly-burly of carnival proper; and then the casual reporter, firing off postcards to Trinidad about taxis, flashy booze, fast women and football in Manchester, with homesickness and grievance nestled just behind the optimism, pride and tentative senses of belonging.

There is the bearer of news from home, in detailed accounts of murders, tales of stupid local coppers, and reminiscences about food and particular mango trees; the political thinker, considering racism and Africa; and the diarist, with his vivid tales of infidelity, and disclosure of the break-up of his marriage, and his desire to get away.

LP ONE:

A1. Carnival Road March
A2. No More Taxi
A3. Mango Tree
A4. Food From The West Indies
A5. Alphonso In Town
A6. Come Back In The Morning

B1. Too Late Kitch
B2. Drink-A-Rum
B3. Constable Joe
B4. Pirates Of Paria
B5. Carnival In Town
B6. Is Trouble
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LP TWO

C1. If You Brown
C2. Life Begins At Forty
C3. Manchester Football Double
C4. The Denis Compton Calypso
C5. Mistress Jacob
C6. London Is The Place For Me

D1. Tie Tongue Mopsie
D2. Dora (Meet Me At The Pawnshop)
D3. If You’re Not White You’re Black
D4. Africa My Home
D5. Nora
D6. Kitch In The Jungle