Gavin Clark - Beautiful Skeletons AC3011061

‘Beautiful Skeletons’ is a 22 track collection of songs spanning nearly two decades from Gavin Clark, erstwhile player and songwriter in Sunhouse, Clayhill and musical collaborator with visual director Shane Meadows.

Initially released on 26th May 2014 as a double vinyl album, ‘Beautiful Skeletons’ is a wonderful collection from the Gavin Clark songbook and has been collated by Shane Meadows from an original archive of some 290 songs that he has saved over their twenty year friendship. As he says himself ;

“Gavin Clark is the reason I gave up on my band and on any hopes of a career in music when I was 17 years of age. I heard him play one day in a friend’s kitchen in Uttoxeter and the second he sang I quit. The songs maybe spread out over 20 years, but they are bound together by their simplicity, their honesty and most of all his voice. It’s peerless and so is Gavin.”

The initial pressing also contained a short 40 minute visual accompaniment on DVD, ‘The Living Room’ filmed by Gavin and Shane, depicting a sometimes poignant, sometimes amusing snapshot of the pair’s friendship.

A second pressing will be released February 16th 2025, limited to 500 copies of the double vinyl LP.

Track Listing

  1. Side 1 - 1 - Crazy
  2. Side 1 - 2 - Spinning Round The Sun
  3. Side 1 - 3 - Hurricane
  4. Side 1 - 4 - Black Blood
  5. Side 1 - 5 - Crazy On The Weekend
  6. Side 2 - 1 - Elaine's Place
  7. Side 2 - 2 - Never Came For Us
  8. Side 2 - 3 - Spotlight For Sunshine
  9. Side 2 - 4 - Stems
  10. Side 2 - 5 - The Russian
  11. Side 2 - 6 - Calling In The Cards
  12. Side 2 - 7 - The Years Have Loved Us
  13. Side 3 - 1 - When We Had Faces
  14. Side 3 - 2 - Painted Glass
  15. Side 3 - 3 - Raise A Vein
  16. Side 3 - 4 - Open & Shut Case
  17. Side 3 - 5 - Low Are The Punches
  18. Side 4 - 1 - Never Seen The Sea
  19. Side 4 - 2 - The Lost Choices
  20. Side 4 - 3 - Roll Away Remain
  21. Side 4 - 4 - Bermondsey Stutter
  22. Side 4 - 5 - I Dreamt Of God

Pressing Information

Initial press of 500 copies on 180g vinyl, double gatefold thick reverse board outer, with CD and DVD of "The Living Room" included. SOLD OUT

Second press of 500 copies on 180g "greenpower" black vinyl, double gatefold thick reverse board outer, black paper inners.