Welcome To The Imperial Coffee Company

Black poly-lined inner. Side A credits from rear sleeve: Jamie Holman: Plantation Thief Christopher Eccleston: Salvationist Alan Outram: Salvation Army Major Oliver Cherer: Power Station Technician Matty Hall: Experimental Patient Devon Rea: Plantation Foreman Bruce Wilkinson: Coffee Picker With thanks to Christopher Eccleston www.jamieholman.co.uk From the artist's website [about the reading from Eccleston without the backing]: This oral performance by English actor, Christopher Eccleston, proposes a relentless history of uprisings that begin with the formation of the Labour Party in 1900 [the record tracks from 1972 onwards], and conclude with the anti-capitalist protests of 2000 and the global anxiety of the ‘millennium bug.’ This period also signifies what Holman refers to as a ‘crisis of identity’ in working class communities, as industry declined and whole areas of the country are laid waste.