{"product_id":"chapterhouse-white-house-demos","title":"CHAPTERHOUSE - White House Demos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e12'' EP - Limited Edition Transparent Orange Vinyl. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLegendary shoegaze band \u003cstrong\u003eChapterhouse\u003c\/strong\u003e will share their first ever recordings on a new EP, White House Demos, released via \u003cstrong\u003eSonic Cathedral\u003c\/strong\u003e on May 9. The four tracks were laid down at \u003cstrong\u003eThe White House\u003c\/strong\u003e studio in Weston-super-Mare on January 15, 1989, when the band were only four gigs old. “They were the first songs we wrote as a band,” says the band’s singer and guitarist \u003cstrong\u003eStephen Patman\u003c\/strong\u003e. “At the time our live set consisted of Stooges and ’60s garage-psych cover versions which we mixed with these original songs.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tracks weren’t included on 2023’s career-spanning Chronology boxset because they had been forgotten about – until the intervention of Slowdive guitarist \u003cstrong\u003eChristian Savill\u003c\/strong\u003e. He and Patman worked together in an office in Reading as their respective bands were starting out and he says the demo remains “their best record”.“When the boxset was released, Christian got in touch and reminded me of these demos and how much he loved them,” says Stephen. “He was probably the first person I gave a cassette copy to. He still rehearses and records at The White House and was going in for a session the following week, so I asked if he could ask the owner\/engineer \u003cstrong\u003eMartin Nichols\u003c\/strong\u003e to check if he still had them in his archive. Thankfully he did.” Of the four tracks that make up the EP, ‘\u003cem\u003eEcstasy\u003c\/em\u003e’ has appeared in various versions and permutations on Chapterhouse compilations over the years, but never in its full eight-minute glory; a much later version of ‘\u003cem\u003eGuilt\u003c\/em\u003e’ was included on the band’s 1991 debut album and shoegaze classic \u003cem\u003eWhirlpool\u003c\/em\u003e; a version of ‘\u003cem\u003eDie Die Die\u003c\/em\u003e’ was also included with that album on a bonus 12”, and remained part of the band’s live set for a while. The stunning ‘\u003cem\u003eSee That Girl\u003c\/em\u003e’, however, has never been released before. With 36 years of distance, it sounds like something of a lost classic, and the \u003cem\u003eWhite House Demos\u003c\/em\u003e as a whole feel like a brief moment in time captured forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Cathedral","offers":[{"title":"12'' EP - Orange Vinyl","offer_id":54336192512345,"sku":"SDZ-06241","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/Chapterhouse_-_White_House_Demos_-_LP_Orange_Vinyl_-_2025.jpg?v=1742295402","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/chapterhouse-white-house-demos","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}