Thanks to Nic for the text below:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe compilation \u2013 \u2018Twisted Nervous Breakdown\u2019 \u2013 was put together by Miles (aka Rat) who was my next-door neighbour and co-founder of Napalm Death (for whom he was drummer and co-songwriter from 1981 to 1985)\u2026
\nThe compilation was the second tape compilation he had made (the first being \u2018Ruptured Gut\u2019 featuring Psycho Faction, APF Brigade and Napalm Death among others) on his Twisted Tapes label. It was released in 1982 and featured a black-and-white Gestetner-duplicated cover and information sheet (which I think I may still have somewhere)\u2026<\/p>\n
The tracklisting is:<\/p>\n
Side 1
\nKrondstadt Uprising \u2013 Divide and Rule
\nThe Bog Brushes \u2013 Lies
\nBible of Sins \u2013 Tradition
\nThe Apostles \u2013 Skin Deep
\n? \u2013 ?
\nHagar the Womb \u2013 ?
\nCurfew \u2013 Malvern Hall
\nDistraught A.K.A Political Asylum \u2013 Trust In Me
\nVerbal Warning \u2013 World Wars
\nKrondstadt Uprising \u2013 Animal Liberation
\nThe Apostles \u2013 ? (Instrumental \u2013 is it \u2018The Silence\u2019?)<\/p>\n
Side 2
\nCurfew \u2013 Blues for Fin
\nThe Bog Brushes \u2013 Shampoo
\nVerbal Warning \u2013 Wrong Image
\nHagar the Womb \u2013 ?
\nBible of Sins \u2013 Bible of Sins
\nDistraught A.K.A Political Asylum \u2013\u00a0Carnage
\nHagar the Womb \u2013 Cardboard Theatre
\nBible of Sins \u2013 Victims of War
\nVerbal Warning \u2013 What\u2019s Your Label?
\nThe Apostles \u2013 A Rebel without a Conscience
\n? \u2013 ? (Is this Krondstadt Uprising?)
\nNapalm Death \u2013 The Good Book
\nRegarding the bands:<\/p>\n
Krondstadt Uprising were a Southend band with links to The Sinyx. They appeared on Crass\u2019 \u2018Bullshit Detector \u2013 Volume 2\u2032 compilation and had a single released on Flux of Pink Indians\u2019 Spiderleg records in 1983\u2026The singer (Spencer) also ran the Necrology fanzine (printed by Graham of New Crimes) and tape-label\u2026A retrospective CD is available\u2026<\/p>\n
The Bog Brushes are a band I don\u2019t really remember much about. I think they were a 2-piece, perhaps from Hampshire or Berkshire\u2026<\/p>\n
Bible of Sins were from Atherstone in Warwickshire, and were comprised of 4 miners who had the Discharge leather-studs-and-spikes look down to a tee\u2026They only really existed for about a year in 1982, recording 2 demos and playing concerts locally with people like the Varukers, Antisect (who were playing their 3rd ever concert)\u2026They also organised the first 2 concerts for Napalm Death\u2026One of their songs on the tape is from their first demo, and the other 2 are from a live recording that we made of the band at an afternoon concert in a pub in Atherstone in mid-1982\u2026I liked them a lot as they usually one had one riff per song\u2026<\/p>\n
The Apostles are infamous around these parts, so I\u2019ll leave it at that\u2026apart from noting that \u2018A Rebel without a Conscience\u2019 features vocals by Katherine Holmes (who was Flump in Flump and the Fruitbats and made a feminist-informed fanzine in 1982\u2026(was she also in Jesus and the Fruit Aphids?)\u2026<\/p>\n
3rd Party were from Cumbria and were part of the thriving early 1980\u2019s scene which Trunt mentioned in a post on another thread and which was documented on a compilation tape featuring a number of the bands. Miles got in touch with them because he had seen them play live (with the Notsensibles and Distortion) when he was on holiday in 1981 in Cumbria\u2026<\/p>\n
Hagar the Womb probably don\u2019t need any introduction here, so I won\u2019t say anything\u2026<\/p>\n
Curfew were local band (from Knowle, near Birmingham) who played a few local gigs, made a couple of recordings on a 2-track recorder, and did little else. They featured Fin (bass) who went on to play in Napalm Death (between 1983 and 1984) and then to play with Miles in Witchhunt in 1987 (who were the closest carbon of The Mob that I ever heard)\u2026The song \u2018Malvern Hall\u2019 is about a local school\u2026<\/p>\n
Verbal Warning (originally known as the Dead Presleys) came from Nottingham where they had a reputation for making sarcastic and insulting remarks to Punks and \u2018Anarchists\u2019 at concerts which gave them a less-than-savoury reputation. The singer \u2013 Dayve \u2013 was very supportive of Napalm Death in the early stages: he featured the band in his fanzine The Dawning of a New Error (which he edited with Dig \u2013 who went on to start the Earache Record label), and organised a couple of concerts for the band in Nottingham. Both bands played together in London at the Recession Klub in Hackney in October 1983 at a concert with The Apostles\u2026The band reformed a few years ago (without Dayve) and continue to gig and record\u2026A recording of their live performance at a gig they had organised for Conflict is available elsewhere on this site\u2026The songs here are from the bands 1st demo, along with a live cut\u2026<\/p>\n
Autumn Poison (originally known as Enola Death who featured on the \u2018New Criminals\u2019 compilation tape posted elsewhere on this site) came from Southend and featured Graham (aka Jah Ovjam) who edited the New Crimes fanzine\u2026They recorded a couple of cassettes during their existence and played a number of concerts, mainly in Southend, with bands like Krondstadt Uprising, the Boiled Eggs and Fallout (ex \u2013 Six Minute War)\u2026<\/p>\n
Napalm Death were the band that Miles and I started together in December 1981 after we had messed around making bedroom recordings of our songs on cassette since 1980\u2026The track on this compilation is from the 2nd demo from August 1982 (featuring the 3rd line-up of the group) recorded live directly to a 2-track recorder\u2026I was 14 years old then, the rest of the band were 15\u2026
\nTwisted Nerve was Miles\u2019 fanzine (named after the Scottish Post Punk band who probably took their name from the Boulting Brothers\u2019 1969 film featuring Hywel Bennett and a Bernard Herrmann soundtrack)\u2026
\nMiles and I had started co-editing a fanzine together in 1980, and then branched out into doing our own: Miles made 5 issues of Twisted Nerve while I made 5 issues, each of which had a different name\u2026
\nAs you can see from the cover, there\u2019s a lot of connections with Puppy-ish things\u2026
\nThe fanzine also features cover art by Pushead who later went on to fame with his designs for skateboards, Thrasher magazine, The Exploited and Metallica\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Side One Side Two I believe this cassette from Spikey Low\u2019s collection had something to do with the similar named fanzine Twisted Nerve, which I believe was Nic\u2019s handywork. The same Nic that comments on this site on a regular basis. Hoping\u00a0Nic will come to my rescue and give me some background on this release […]<\/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-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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