[ LE CHAT NOIR - Transatlantic alternative garage rock 2-piece band based in Devon, UK ]

RELEASE DATE May 2009
CATALOGUE NUMBER GSR-005
DETAILS 8pp booklet.
ARTWORK Teddy Hesper
RECORDING INFO Recorded and mixed by Teddy Hesper at The Cat's Cradle, Devon, Jan-Feb 2009

TRACK LIST
The Death Of Louis Lecoeur
Under Desert Skies
The Dark Highway
Outlaw Lovenote
Johnny Moorview And The Heart Attacks
Deserter's Lament
Father Blackheart
Time To Decide
The Silver City Regulators
Please Forgive Me
If I Were A Religious Man
Gibbet Hill
Gravestone Waltz
What Became Of Johnny?

Postcards From The Dark Highway is an epic tale of love, war, death and rock'n'roll. Le Chat Noir’s third studio album, released in May 2009, is a thematic prequel to the band's previous two albums, returning to the fictional setting of Silver City and the surrounding Wild West-inspired landscape. Over the course of its 14 tracks the album relates the story of Jack Valentine and Roxy Lecoeur - a pair of desperados who fall foul of the law, fall in love, form a band and ultimately meet their untimely ends out on the Dark Highway.

Fans of the previous albums will find out why Mary Lee became a femme fatale as well as meeting a rich host of new characters including the corrupt vigilante priest Father Blackheart, the relentless lawmen of the Silver City Regulators and the saviour of rock'n'roll himself: the legendary Johnny Moorview!

RELEASE DATE July 2008
CATALOGUE NUMBER GSR-004
DETAILS Internet-only release
ARTWORK Teddy Hesper
RECORDING INFO Recorded and mixed by Teddy Hesper at The Cat's Cradle, Devon, July 2008

TRACK LIST
Teenage Suicide
High Octane
Pull The Trigger
Is Ignorance A Sin?
Carpe Diem

Return To Silver City is an internet-only release containing six rerecordings of songs that featured previously on the first two Le Chat Noir albums.

RELEASE DATE September 2007
CATALOGUE NUMBER PATCH009
DETAILS 8pp concertina fold booklet. Limited edition (1000 copies)
ARTWORK Tim Zastera and Teddy Hesper
RECORDING INFO Recorded and mixed by Teddy Hesper at The Cat's Cradle, Devon, Jan-July 2007

TRACK LIST
Silver City Burns
The Bone Collector
Wedding Dress
Green Eyed Josephine
Down By The River
The Scarlet Mistress
Pull The Trigger
Dead Man's Hand
Teenage Suicide
No One Left To Blame
The Ghost Of Johnny Black
The Fields Where Nothing Grows
I Can See The Light

Deadwood, released through Bath-based label Patchogue Records, was the hotly-anticipated second album from Le Chat Noir. It saw the band developing the visceral garage rock of their debut album and taking it to a new level, with tracks exhibiting a new maturity and confidence whilst still staying true to the stripped-down aesthetic which has earned them a cult following.

RELEASE DATE November 2006
CATALOGUE NUMBER GSR-001
DETAILS Each CD individually numbered and signed. Limited edition (500 copies)
ARTWORK Daniel Alexander and Teddy Hesper
RECORDING INFO Recorded and mixed by Teddy Hesper at The Cat's Cradle, Devon, Sep-Oct 2006

TRACK LIST
Carpe Diem
Seeing Double
Is Ignorance A Sin?
The Streets Of Silver City
Mary Lee
Fallen Angel
Halfway To Hell
Her Wicked Smile
Devil In Disguise
Dead Man Walking
Need To Know
Sam Colt And The Devil
Old Man McGraw
On The Run
High Octane
Escape

Tales From Silver City, Le Chat Noir's debut album, was available in a long since sold-out limited run of 500 on Garage Sale Records, individually signed and numbered with exclusive artwork by New Zealand-based artist Daniel Alexander. The album was recorded between September and October 2006 at The Cat's Cradle, the band's studio deep in the Devonshire countryside.

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