The Shrubs - Blackmailer
12"EP released 1986

Blackmailer Rivers Of Toads Assassin Animal

first two recorded at Cold Storage in Sept 1986, produced by Tim Hodgkinson

second two from The Shrubs first Peel Session, recorded June 1986 and produced by Dale Griffin


The Shrubs continue in the same direction. Blackmailer is one of their best tunes.

I actually know someone in Leeds who had a leather jacket with the record design opposite painted on the back. That narrowly beats someone else I know who had Big Black's "Il Duce" on the back of theirs.

I stuck with a sensible jumper with a small enamel Dog Faced Hermans badge on.