Name: Hush Your Mouth - The Betterdays Anthology
Brand: The Betterdays

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CRSEG069D

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Discs

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Download code: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-03-18

Signed copies

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Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5013929186927

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Betterdays

Genre GB

Garage / Surf / Trash

Label GB

Grapefruit

The first-ever complete anthology of wild mid-‘60s UK garage R&amp;B band The Betterdays who briefly reformed in the early ‘90s. Includes previously-unissued live tracks from a 1964 show in their West Country heartland. Featuring numerous rare photos and a new essay on the band with fresh quotes from leader Mike Weston

The West Country’s leading exponents of British Garage R&amp;B, The Betterdays’ thrillingly raw sound and unkempt, long-haired appearance initially saw them banned by local promoters in their native Plymouth.

The national success of The Rolling Stones turned the tide in their favour, and by mid-1964 they boasted a thriving local fan club and were provoking riots among audiences.

Having acquired local hero status, they opted not to relocate to London, although they did cut a handful of demos at venues like RG Jones (Morden) Ltd and even released a single via Polydor in September 1965.

By that juncture the R&amp;B scene was fading, and The Betterdays duly disbanded – although they did reform in the early ‘90s with the original five-man line-up, promptly recording the album they’d been denied in their mid-‘60s heyday.

The first-ever complete anthology of their work, the 2-CD set <i>Hush Your Mouth</i> brings together their small but valuable cache of mid-Sixties acetates, their feverishly-pursued Polydor single, a clutch of August 1964 live cuts (including three tracks now being heard for the first time) and those early ‘90s recordings – which initially gained a partial release as ‘No Concessions’ before an expanded version appeared in 2017 as ‘Backlash’.

Featuring a 24-page booklet with numerous rare photos and a new essay on the band, <i>Hush Your Mouth</i> is the final word on this legendary mid-‘60s British R&amp;B band.