I Have Been To Heaven And Back
(Hen's Teeth and other lost fragments of un-popular culture)

Way over 20 rare and unobtainable tracks recently declassified and released from the Mekons' archive (a damp cellar in Leeds). This brand new collection of out-takes, remakes, stadium anthems, cheeky covers, B-sides, radio sessions, borderline cases, blank-faced orphans and hen's teeth walks in the shoes of The Mekons Story (1982) and New York (1988). Not a conventional Mekons album (If such a thing could exist) but a twisted scramble through the vaults of history that unearths such gleaming nuggets as The Ballad Of Sally (1988), Now We Have The Bomb (1997), Cowboy Boots (1989) Deep End (1986) plus brand new studio versions of Orpheus and I Have Been To Heaven And Back. A must for fans, a baffling mind-fuck for the uninitiated! Rare as Hen's Teeth...

Digitally re-mastered and compiled by Mekons this Touch & Go release contains many tracks that have never been available in the US before.