On the 7th July 2005 AD, the rules of the game all change in Londinium, a city of ancient stature founded by Romans in 43AD and unconquered by foreign tribes since 1066. Four young men took a day trip from Leeds to London on a one-way ticket, 52 mothers wept, and Hypnotique took a pact with the Devil. The following day, Hypnotique braved through the streets of her home in Tottenham, North London, to bring her words of courage, defiance and salvation to a society stepping ever closer to the apocalypse - in Eastbourne. Located on the scenic Sussex coast, Eastbourne is home to Beachy Head, the beautiful suicide capital of the world, the largest Military Museum in the southeast of England, and is generally known as the place where English pensioners go to die. Hypnotique engages in her own suicide mission: she is met with apathy, anger, ignorance - and limp-wristed threats of violence from Eastbourne's so-called liberal contingent. Hear how she fares on this recording, "Pact With The Devil".

This a live gig recording (any imperfections are purely intentional) features three hits from Hypnotique's 2005 debut album "The Hanging Garden" ("Clara De Lune", "The King Never Died", and "Last Wednesday"), alongside four brand new songs: "Pact With The Devil" (a lament on the demises of Coil front-man Jhonn Balance and former-Home Secretary David Blunkett), "Kill All Your Enemies" (a sing-a-long anthem about killing your enemies, then your friends, and finally yourself - whilst never giving up in the face of adversity), "Snake Seller's Wife" (a collaboration with Valentine Records head honcho, Joe Ladyboy, about the sorrowful fate of a Persian princess upon meeting a retailer of reptiles), and "Streets Of Tottenham" (an eerie foretelling - a song about a potential act of terrorism starting from the heart of multi-cultural Tottenham - home to the 'Tottenham Ayatollah').

This hearty luncheon is sandwiched between two unusual but choice cuts: the proceedings are ritually opened by "Al Caiola", a new studio track by industrial deviants Sector 13, a tribute to spies, mystery, mayhem, and a lightening guitar master. It's closed with an audience participation piece and stand-up comedy number, "Does My Bomb Look Big In This?" - Eastbourners advice on how to survive your failed suicide mission and still look hip…

As listeners have come to expect from the uncompromising Hypnotique, she tells it like it is and is not afraid to confront the social issues of the day that others ignore because they're too busy dancing… She is, of course, accompanied by the melancholic and chilling refrains of her THEREMIN. The recording was made at the launch of Public Address, a supposedly 'shocking' exhibition featuring artwork by Albert Oehlen, Dr.Randall Phillip (Fuck Magazine), Foxtrot Echo (Coum Transmissions), plus Hypnotique and Mike Rogers (Sector 13), whose artwork appears on this album's cover.

This is an extremely limited edition CD-R release on Lunette Records (there are currently only 20 retail copies available, with no plans to produce any more), in a lovely handmade double gatefold sleeve. Grab it while you can.

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