Meat Whiplash was a Scottish quartet occupying the same sonic space as The Jesus and Mary Chain's 1984 debut single "Upside Down" on Creation Records.
Also from East Kilbride, Scotland, Jim and William Reid (of The Jesus and Mary Chain) produced Meat Whiplash’s first single for Creation and recruited them to open up for them as they toured the UK trough 1985. Also sharing a bass player in Douglas Hart, both bands became somewhat notorious for the infamous "riot gig" at the North London Polytechnic where fights broke out. Along with the other opening act, The Jasmine Minks, Meat Whiplash became near household names. Their Creation single “Don’t Slip Up” stayed on the UK Independent Chart for 19 weeks reaching #3.
Meat Whiplash were culling songs together for what would have been their debut album that would have included these songs when they broke up. The band members Eddie Connelly (RIP), Michael Kerr, Paul McDermott and Stephen McLean disbanded and went on to form Motorcycle Boy with Alex Taylor of Shop Assistants on vocals.
Meat Whiplash Collected LP1
1. Don’t Slip Up
2. Here It Comes
3. Loss (BBC Session)
4. Walk Away (BBC Session)
5. Eat Me to the Core (BBC Session)
6. She Comes Tomorrow (BBC Session)
7. Losing Your Grip (version)
8. Walk Away (demo)
9. Always Sunday (demo)
10. Losing Your Grip (demo)
11. Bring Him Down (live)
12. I Wanna Be Your Dog (live)
13. Cuddle Up With Cancer (live)
Various Artists Contextualized LP2
1. A Place to Bury Strangers “Walk Away”
2. Iron Works Inc. “Here It Comes”
3. Apolitiq “Eat Me to the Core”
5. Unlettered "Always Sunday"
6. Unlettered "Eat Me To the Core"
7. Strawberry Whiplash “Don’t Slip Up”
8. Honeyrider “Loss”
9. Future Silence “She Comes Tomorrow
10. Bubblegum Lemonade “She Comes Tomorrow”