Chapterhouse – “White House Demos”

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EXPECTED 9TH MAY 2025

12″ Ep Orange Vinyl

Legendary shoegaze band Chapterhouse will share their first ever recordings on a new EP, White House Demos, released via Sonic Cathedral on May 9.The four tracks were laid down at The White House 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 Stephen Patman. “At the time our live set consisted of Stooges and ’60s garage-psych cover versions which we mixed with these original songs.”

The tracks weren’t included on 2023’s career-spanning Chronology boxset because they had been forgotten about – until the intervention of Slowdive guitarist Christian Savill. 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”.it sounds like something of a lost classic, and the White House Demos as a whole feel like a brief moment in time captured forever.

Tracklisting:

1/Ecstasy

2/Guilt

3/See That Girl

4/Die Die Die