Masquerade

CD1 cover

CD2 cover

10 inch cover

Group

Mark E Smith – vocals
Steve Hanley – bass
Julia Nagle – keyboards, guitar
Simon Wolstencroft – drums, keyboards
Karl Burns – drums
Andy Hackett – guitar
Tommy Crooks – guitar
With:
Basil Nagle – vocals (track 1)

Recording

West Heath Studios, London and PWL Studios, Manchester late 1997.

Production

Jason Barron

Releases

  • 9 February 1998 on Artful CD #1: CDARTFUL1; CD #2: CXARTFUL1; and 10″: 10ARTFUL1

Tracks

CD One

  1. Masquerade (Smith/Burns/Hanley, S/Nagle) 3:53
  2. Ivanhoe’s Two Pence (Smith/Burns/Hanley, S/Nagle) 4:07
  3. Spencer Must Die (live) (Smith/Burns/Hanley, S/Nagle) 2:18  1
  4. 10 Houses Of Eve (remix) (Smith/Nagle) 3:42

CD Two

  1. Masquerade (Smith/Burns/Hanley, S/Nagle) 3:53
  2. Calendar (Smith/Gough) 1:44
  3. Scareball (Smith/Burns/Hanley, S/Nagle) 2:56
  4. Ol’ Gang (live) (Smith/Burns/Hanley, S/Nagle) 5:22

Vinyl

  1. Masquerade (Smith/Burns/Hanley, S/Nagle) 3:53
  2. Masquerade (Mr. Natural mix) (Smith/Burns/Hanley, S/Nagle)
  3. Masquerade (PWL mix) (Smith/Burns/Hanley, S/Nagle)

Notes

“Masquerade” was re-recorded from the Levitate version and released  to coincide with  Mark E. Smith receiving the Godlike Genius award at the NME Awards.  It reached number 69 in the UK charts. “Calendar”, a collaboration with then-unknown Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy) which came about after a chance meeting when Smith allegedly mistook Gough’s car for a taxi outside a pub.

The live version of Ol’ Gang comes from Tuesday, 9 December , 1997 – Bierkellar, Bristol, England 

The live version of Spencer Must Die is two live tracks spliced together; the first part comes from the Bierkeller, Bristol gig also