Description
Marking 12 years since their first release at the launch of Gare Du Nord Records, a run of ten albums (plus related EPs and more), and a cast of over thirty friends, bandmates and collaborators who have appeared on the records, this 23-track compilation is a concentrated summary of what Papernut Cambridge – the loose musical collective formed and fronted by Ian Button – has been all about.
The tracks include versions and rarities that weren’t on the original vinyl albums, as well as spruced
up mixes and edits specially for this compilation: something for the Papernut completist, as well as a
potential primer for new listeners.
Papernut Cambridge releases over the last decade or so have earned comparisons to artists like
T.Rex, The Kinks, World Party, Pavement, David Essex and more – Shindig!Magazine described the band as “a C86 version of The Faces”.
Across the compilation Robert Halcrow, Robert Rotifer, Darren Hayman and Jack Hayter make up the regular instrument-swapping Papernut core of friends – but other contributors fly in. Button’s old Death In Vegas bandmatesMat Flint and Terry Miles appear…..Helen McCookerybook and The CatenaryWires/Heavenly show up…..anti-folkers Paul Hawkins and Lucy Joplin…Sterling Roswell…..Button’s old Sidcup friends Nick Tidmarsh and Paul Warren.
There’s a joke that Papernut Cambridge is the band where Button calls in all the favours from the
other bands he’s played in……and another stolen, Warholian quip that sooner or later everyone will
get the call to do something on a Papernut Cambridge record.
Track listing:
It’s Not Really Rock N Roll
Aphrodisiac
Trip To America
The Tragic Hills
Crying
Cobwebs
Elvis Breakdown
Accident’s Children
Kalinda
Chartreuse
When She SaidWhat She Said
Hooky Street
93 Million And One
Buckminster Fullerene
House Of Pink Icing
Steps Of The Seine
Si J’Etais Francais
J’ai Mis Un Tigre Dans Ma Guitare
Radio
Steal My Sunshine
Everything You Say Is Lyrics, Anything You Touch Is Art
The Ghost Of Something Small
Papernut II
GENRE: Alternative Rock
BARCODE: 684910296250
RELEASE DATE: 26/09/2025
