Cherry Red Records Hayzi Fantayzee: Battle Hymns For Children Singing Expanded Edition

Haysi Fantayzee were formed in 1981 by fashion photographer Kate Garner, former Animal Magnet member Paul Caplin and Jeremy Healy, a well-known face on London’s club scene. Together they set about injecting a sense of fun and adventure into the music scene, wearing outlandish, self-designed costumes and dreadlocks, and writing songs that married sexual subversion with deliberately disposable and cocksure dayglo pop.
Their ‘Dickensian Rasta’ look was an immediate hit and saw their debut single ‘John Wayne Is Big Leggy’ rise to number 11 in the national charts. In their brief career they would also enjoy chart success with ‘Holy Joe’ and ‘Shiny Shiny’. All three hits are reprised on this CD, as is their sole album, “Battle Hymns For Children Singing”.
The package also features a host of bonus tracks, remixes, and sleeve-notes written with the co-operation of both Healy and Garner. The former went on to become one of the UK’s most successful DJs, while the latter is an accomplished and in-demand photographer for artists including Sinead O’Connor, Bjork, David Bowie and others.
1. SHINY SHINY
2. I LOST MY DODI
3. MORE MONEY
4. JIMMY JIVE JIVE
5. THE SABRES OF PARADISE
6. SISTER FRICTION
7. SHOOFLY LOVE
8. CHIZOOLA
9. JOHN WAYNE IS BIG LEGGY
10.HERE COMES THE BEAST
BONUS TRACKS
11.HOLY JOE
12.OK BIG DADDY
13.JOHN WAYNE IS BIG LEGGY (GROOVY LONG VERSION)
14.HOLY JOE (REMIX)
15.SHINY SHINY (DANCE MIX)
16.SISTER FRICTION (EXTENDED REMIX)
17.JIMMY JIVE
18.SHINY SHINY (BON TEMPS)