Peter Coyle - I’d Sacrifice Eight Orgasms With Shirley MacClaine Just To Be There (1986)

One year ago I decided to start this blog when I realized I had the first Peter Coyle’s solo album that no one else seemed to have or was willing to share. So there went the first post. One year from then here’s Peter Coyle’s second solo album, I’d Sacrifice Eight Orgasms With Shirley MacClaine Just To Be There. The quality is poor (cassette rip), but it’s a nice testimony of what the man was up to at the time (… 22 years ago…)

Here are Peter Coyle memories of that period:

“Getting all that black stuff off my soul gave me the chance to have some fun. So we did. We went straight back into the studio (Pink Studios) and recorded what was meant to be a dance album. I was in love with Funkadelic and wanted to get some funk into my soul. We ended up with the Id Sacrifice Eight Orgasms With Shirley MacClaine Just To Be There album. We wore wigs and sunglasses and flares and just let the music play. It was also as the title suggests centred around sex. Most of the time anyway.

As far as my professional peers were concerned I had lost the plot entirely. What on earth was I trying to do. Sell records or have the time of my life? I definitely didnt give a fuck and driven by my depression embarked on a roller coaster ride of fun time. I hid behind the alluring faces of pleasure. It felt like the perfect way to escape. And it seemed a very effective way of achieving that escape. It sounds weird but anyone who has been there will know what Im talking about. I hope so anyway because it is really horrible to feel like you are completely alone with no-one able to understand what the hell you are going on about.

I then started an album with a band called Treatment and released a few tracks on compilation records (Under The Fascist Thumb, Fire On Petrol ). We did a few gigs but yet again couldnt get enough of them. I realised the only way I was going to get gigs is by running my own club. So I threw myself into running clubs. If the world was not coming to me or remotely interested in the things I was doing then I would create my own world. That was the reasoning anyway. A bit scary really!

Anyway, eight orgasms was my way of starting to be a part of the dance culture. Again it was the most rebellious and revolutionary thing I could do at the time. Liverpool was a museum of stale rock values and rock music. People had not moved on and Liverpool was dying on its rock feet. It was definitely a stagnant period. Liverpool musicians seemed to be copying what had been successful before and not thinking too much about what the newer music will be like.

As usual people thought I was mad but this time I was right. With the help of the F-people who worked on the art installations and projections and the Dj-ing talents of John MacCready, the club became a haven for freaks and creatives and most importantly music. Eight orgasms was the platform for the Donny and Marie Handbag Revolution and Suicide Murder and the Sunshine sucks. The Donnies were aggressive, twisted, chaotic and highly sexualised. The Suicides were completely improvised and quite melodic.”


I’d Sacrifice Eight Orgasms With Shirley MacClaine Just To Be There (1986)

1. Hungry
2. Mouth of Need
3. Hey Earthlings
4. O My God
5. Black Angel
6. Eight Orgasms
7. Dawn With No-One
8. Moonshine
9. Suck On The Sugarbone
10. Say Something
11. Whore Me, Whore You
12. Into The Waves

peter coyle: 8 orgasms

(see also: http://www.petercoyle.com/bio.html )