Name: Young Limbs Rise Again – The Story of the Batcave Nightclub 1982 – 1985
Brand: Various

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DEMRECBOX72

Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

6 x 140 Gram LP Set with 80 Page Booklet. 63 Tracks

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-02-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Demon

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5014797908017

Total Cap

Black LP

EDSL0125

Extended format: No

5CD Box and 80 Page Hardback Book. 90 Tracks.

740155732530

5 / CD

DEMREC1062

Double 140 Gram Vinyl. 20 Tracks

5014797908031

2 / Black / LP

Artist

Various

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

<p> Demon is a UK 80s New Wave label that was founded by Elvis Costello, Andrew Lauder, and the company behind the label in 1980. In 1998, the label was acquired by Music Collection International and merged with its Westside Records operation. Today, Demon forms part of the Demon Music Group Ltd.</p>

London 1982. As the new romantic youthquake of 1981/1982 faded, and after what felt like a lifetime since punk’s last gasp, a tiny nightclub opened its doors in London’s Soho. Drawing to it a new generation of misfits and miscreants with a penchant for polysexual hedonism, for dressing up and showing out, The Batcave became the dark heart of alternative club culture, just like The Roxy and The Blitz before it.&nbsp;

Art school students, ex-punks and psychobillys, boys and girls, gays, straights, don’t-knows and don’t-cares, Camden and Kensington Market stallholders, professional squatters, kids on the dole, kids in bands, nocturnal music journalists, edgy fashionistas, androgynous randoms and even a smattering of bona fide popstars – from Nick Cave to Siouxsie Sioux, Marc Almond, Robert Smith, Killing Joke and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. All were welcome to pile in, gawp at the hair, ripped, torn, bleached and rubberised fashions, and death-mask make-up and take in the dancefloor’s heady musical mix of beats-heavy post-punk pioneers, outsider icons like Wayne County and The Cramps, and a teetering pile of lusty glam rock singles from the likes of T. Rex and The Sweet.&nbsp;

The club even had its own house band, Specimen, fronted by charismatic and ghoulishly handsome frontman Olli Wisdom (RIP) as well as playing host to a slew of first-wave bands of what came to be known as “goth”. And it is with Specimen’s Jon Klein (later, a Banshee, too) and keyboardist Jonny Slut (later founder of legendary club night Nag Nag Nag) along with Sophie Chery from another stalwart Batcave band, Sexbeat, who’ve worked with Demon in putting together this deluxe and definitive musical and visual accompaniment to a moment that sparked a global youth cult.&nbsp;

This Collection is the first of its kind. It captures both the fun and freedom of The Batcave and a revolutionary moment in time. It’s also the first to reflect the musical influences on the scene and how that scene pointed forwards. Above everything else, it’s a fascinating evocation of what you’d have actually heard had you stumbled into that sweaty, energetic dive between ’82 and ’84.&nbsp;

With its very strong tracklisting, Young Limbs Rise Again includes music from just about everybody that mattered – from The Cure to Joy Division, from The Sisters Of Mercy to Sparks.&nbsp;

CD1: THE HOP (A NIGHT ON THE DANCEFLOOR 1)

1. Temple Of Love (Extended Version)- The Sisters Of Mercy 7.40

4. Resurrection Joe (Long Version)- The Cult 6.04

6. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (12” Version)- Specimen- 5.00

7. Pagan Lovesong (Vibeakimbo)- Virgin Prunes 6.49

8. Incubus Succubus- Xmal Deutschland 4.43

10. This Is Not A Love Song (12” Version)- PiL 4.29

12. Against The Wind- Getting The Fear 3.3

13. Club Country (12” Version)- The Associates 6.57

14. Cccan’t You See... - Vicious Pink 3.32

16. The Light Pours Out Of Me- Magazine 3.28

CD2: SLOWDIVE (A NIGHT ON THE DANCEFLOOR 2)

2. Slowdive- Siouxsie and the Banshees 4.18

3. Release The Bats- The Birthday Party 2.35

4. We Love You- The Psychedelic Furs 3.27

9. The Back Of Love- Echo and the Bunnymen 3.13

10. I Travel (Extended Version)- Simple Minds 6.03

11. My Daddy Is A Vampire- The Meteors 3.32

12. Strict Tempo- Dave Ball featuring Gavin Friday 3.42

13. Collapsing New People- Fad Gadget 4.15

14. Heaven Is Waiting- The Danse Society 3.45

19. I Wish I Was A Girl- Wasted Youth 5.43

CD3: ADOLESCENT SEX (A NIGHT ON THE DANCEFLOOR 3)

4. Ignore The Machine- Alien Sex Fiend 6.47

11. Dr Mabuse (First Life)-Propaganda- 5.02

14. The Beauty Of Poisin (12” Mix)- Specimen 4.15

18. Jo’s So Mean To Josephine- Flowerpot Men 5.00

19 . She’s Fallen In Love With A Monster Man- The Revillos 3.18

7. Roman Candle (12” Version)- Flesh For Lulu 10.18

9. Last Year’s Wife (12” Version)- Zero LeCrêche 4.35

10. Dance With Me- Lords Of The New Church 3.43

11. Tracey’s Burning- Anorexic Dread 9.33

13. Raymond- Turkey Bones &amp; The Wild Dogs 8.33

9. Roll Away The Stone- Mott The Hoople 3.11

11. Needles In The Camel’s Eye- Brian Eno 3.15

13. Night Time- Wayne County and the Electric Chairs 3.28

14. Then He Kissed Me- Hollywood Brats 3.13

17. I’m Waiting For The Man- Velvet Underground 4.37&nbsp;

18. Dance With The Devil- Cozy Powell 3.33