{"id":3443,"date":"2010-02-27T12:47:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T11:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2019-11-30T12:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T12:07:22","slug":"null-and-void-not-so-brave-records-xntrix-cassettes-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/null-and-void-not-so-brave-records-xntrix-cassettes-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Null And Void – Xntrix Cassettes \/ Not So Brave Records – 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pete Nothing<\/strong> – Rape Ads \/ Null And Void<\/strong> – Only Seventeen \/ Can’t Hide \/ Sometimes I Get So Lonely \/ Still \/ Me And My Actor<\/a><\/p>\n

Null And Void<\/strong> – Four Minute Warning \/ God’s Only Words \/ Still Lonely \/ Blank Pages \/ An Old Way \/ Pete Nothing<\/strong> – Fads<\/a><\/p>\n

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Still<\/a><\/p>\n

Crap \/ Cold War<\/a><\/p>\n

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Null And Void were a band from around the Yeovil area formed in 1980. Closely alligned to Yeovil’s other band at the time, The Mob, the original members of Null And Void were Mark Hedge, Adie Tompkins and Andrew Barker. Barker had already previously released a record on the All The Madmen record label under the name Andy Stratton, along with The Mob’s then drummer Graham Fallows. Both The Mob and Null And Void members lived together\u00a0in a shared commune in Seend a village in Wiltshire. Adie Tompkins would eventually perform drumming duties for The Mob for a short time after Graham decided to leave\u00a0that band. Eventually most of The Mob and Null And Void members decided to leave the sticks and chance squatting in London. Brougham Road in Hackney was the area where the bands shared bus\u00a0ended up and parked up. Zounds, a close ally\u00a0to both bands on the newly arrived bus had\u00a0secured some property in that street a few months previously.<\/p>\n

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Both of these releases uploaded today\u00a0were recorded and engineered by Pete Fender at\u00a0the Xntrix studio situated in the basement of the Poison Girls house in Leytonstone. The band by the time of recordings had a new\u00a0drummer in Josef Porta who\u00a0had been staying in Brougham Road with the other members of Zounds. Josef of course later joined The Mob, and continues to perform today with Blyth Power. Delia supplied some backing vocals and Pete Nothing added a couple of poems on the sessions that would be released on the cassette. Pete Nothing was not Pete Fender incidently in case anyone wondered…<\/p>\n

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After\u00a0a couple of\u00a0tours in Belgium with The Mob and Zounds, Null And Void were approached by Not So Brave Records who were based in Belgium. The band recorded the sessions, again with Pete Fender at Xntrix,\u00a0that would end up as the only 7″ single that was released in the band’s lifetime. The sleeve artwork for the single was completed by Dave Williams who was the brother of Steve Ignorant, vocalist for Crass (a fact that Dave did not like\u00a0being made public\u00a0to many folk in those days as the two siblings did not get on that well supposedly, according to a member of Null And Void!)<\/p>\n

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By the time these recordings were released, the band were performing a fair few gigs in and around London including a set at the Zig Zag squat gig, Westbourne Park organised by Andy Palmer and Penny Rimbaud of Crass along with members of The\u00a0 Kill Your Pet Puppy Collective and Andy Martin of The Apostles in December 1982.<\/p>\n

These releases\u00a0contain absolutely wonderful material by Null And Void, material\u00a0which still sounds incredibly strong today.<\/p>\n

Andy Stratton’s debut\u00a07″ single released on All The Madmen Records in 1980 can be listened to on this site HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pete Nothing – Rape Ads \/ Null And Void – Only Seventeen \/ Can’t Hide \/ Sometimes I Get So Lonely \/ Still \/ Me And My Actor Null And Void – Four Minute Warning \/ God’s Only Words \/ Still Lonely \/ Blank Pages \/ An Old Way \/ Pete Nothing – Fads Still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10207,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/10207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}