Thanks to Nic for the text below:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe compilation – ‘Twisted Nervous Breakdown’ – 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)…
\nThe compilation was the second tape compilation he had made (the first being ‘Ruptured Gut’ 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)…<\/p>\n
The tracklisting is:<\/p>\n
Side 1
\nKrondstadt Uprising – Divide and Rule
\nThe Bog Brushes – Lies
\nBible of Sins – Tradition
\nThe Apostles – Skin Deep
\n? – ?
\nHagar the Womb – ?
\nCurfew – Malvern Hall
\nDistraught A.K.A Political Asylum – Trust In Me
\nVerbal Warning – World Wars
\nKrondstadt Uprising – Animal Liberation
\nThe Apostles – ? (Instrumental – is it ‘The Silence’?)<\/p>\n
Side 2
\nCurfew – Blues for Fin
\nThe Bog Brushes – Shampoo
\nVerbal Warning – Wrong Image
\nHagar the Womb – ?
\nBible of Sins – Bible of Sins
\nDistraught A.K.A Political Asylum –\u00a0Carnage
\nHagar the Womb – Cardboard Theatre
\nBible of Sins – Victims of War
\nVerbal Warning – What’s Your Label?
\nThe Apostles – A Rebel without a Conscience
\n? – ? (Is this Krondstadt Uprising?)
\nNapalm Death – The Good Book
\nRegarding the bands:<\/p>\n
Krondstadt Uprising were a Southend band with links to The Sinyx. They appeared on Crass’ ‘Bullshit Detector – Volume 2′ compilation and had a single released on Flux of Pink Indians’ Spiderleg records in 1983…The singer (Spencer) also ran the Necrology fanzine (printed by Graham of New Crimes) and tape-label…A retrospective CD is available…<\/p>\n
The Bog Brushes are a band I don’t really remember much about. I think they were a 2-piece, perhaps from Hampshire or Berkshire…<\/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…They 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)…They also organised the first 2 concerts for Napalm Death…One 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…I liked them a lot as they usually one had one riff per song…<\/p>\n
The Apostles are infamous around these parts, so I’ll leave it at that…apart from noting that ‘A Rebel without a Conscience’ features vocals by Katherine Holmes (who was Flump in Flump and the Fruitbats and made a feminist-informed fanzine in 1982…(was she also in Jesus and the Fruit Aphids?)…<\/p>\n
3rd Party were from Cumbria and were part of the thriving early 1980’s 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…<\/p>\n
Hagar the Womb probably don’t need any introduction here, so I won’t say anything…<\/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)…The song ‘Malvern Hall’ is about a local school…<\/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 ‘Anarchists’ at concerts which gave them a less-than-savoury reputation. The singer – Dayve – 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 – 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…The band reformed a few years ago (without Dayve) and continue to gig and record…A recording of their live performance at a gig they had organised for Conflict is available elsewhere on this site…The songs here are from the bands 1st demo, along with a live cut…<\/p>\n
Autumn Poison (originally known as Enola Death who featured on the ‘New Criminals’ compilation tape posted elsewhere on this site) came from Southend and featured Graham (aka Jah Ovjam) who edited the New Crimes fanzine…They 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 – Six Minute War)…<\/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…The 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…I was 14 years old then, the rest of the band were 15…
\nTwisted Nerve was Miles’ fanzine (named after the Scottish Post Punk band who probably took their name from the Boulting Brothers’ 1969 film featuring Hywel Bennett and a Bernard Herrmann soundtrack)…
\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…
\nAs you can see from the cover, there’s a lot of connections with Puppy-ish things…
\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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Side One Side Two I believe this cassette from Spikey Low’s collection had something to do with the similar named fanzine Twisted Nerve, which I believe was Nic’s 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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