Wot no Pseudo Existors thread?

"I'm not coming here again John...."

(etc etc)

Angelic Upstarts were hardly a "regional variation" - they were a HUGELY sucessful band!

Wavis O'Shave? The name rings a very vague bell but that's all.... [Googlses] aaaah yes, Anna Ford's Bum!

some friends of mine were in a synthesiser band, and they got a support gig w/wavis o'shave, or foffo spearjig or whatever he was calling himself at the time, in sunderland. As they played their set (their debut gig as well) this guy in the audience heckled them mercilessly, really ripping them to shreds. after they finished their set, he, who of course turned out to be wavis himself, got up on stage and did his set. Talk about a baptism of fire - I don't think they ever did another gig.

I've recently discovered that an entire 13 track album of Psudo Existors material, also (rather confusingly) called Stamp Out Normality and including: all 4 tracks from the original EP of the same name; both tracks the band contributed to Dead Good's comp. East; a couple of other studio tracks and a bunch of live ones; was released by Harbinger Records in Nottingham in 2003 - and most of it's every bit as good as the stuff on the original EP.

Unfortunately there are no plans to release it on CD in the forseeable future, but there are at least brand new copies still available from http://www.vinylonthe.net/ ; or I also found it at http://www.wrench.org/.

If you draw a blank there then you could try e-mailing Steve at Harbinger Sound [email protected]

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^^ This has been reissued on CD by Overground (last year I think) and is indeed really good. It's 19 songs, not 13.

At last, the excuse I've been looking for to buy this again on CD: there are an extra 6 tracks cf. the vinyl, hurrah!

(Just between you and me Colonel Poo, are the extra tracks actually any good 'though ? Iirc some of the live materials on the vinyl was pretty ropey - gratuitously shouty 'Pistols covers etc. recorded on a cheap and nasty old mono cassette recorder which was apparently being held by someone who was trying to pogo at the same time)

I've only listened to 2 of the live tracks so far and they are as you say, ropey.

The studio stuff is all great though.

The tracks on the original EP (= first 4 tracks on the album) alone are worth getting the CD for if you haven't already got them on vinyl.

Twice.

I've listened to all the live stuff now and it isn't worth listening to more than once really. There's one song that's ok and not in the studio tracks - "Noise".