Peter & the Test Tube Babies
Brighton, England punk survivors Peter and the Test Tube Babies formed in 1978; soon debuting on the Vaultage 1978 compilation, the group -- singer Peter Bywaters, guitarist Derek "Del" Greening, bassist Chris "Trapper" Marchant and drummer Nicholas "Ogs" Loizides -- nevertheless did not issue their first proper single "Banned from the Pubs" until 1982, firmly establishing their tongue-in-cheek approach with the follow-up "Run Like Hell." Subsequent singles including "Zombie Creeping Flesh" and "The Jinx" preceded the 1983 release of {$the Test Tubes...[more]
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Chasing the Brighton-based punks from their "Banned from the Pubs" debut in 1982 through to the "Keys to the City" 45 three years later, The Punk Singles Collection is a reminder that, for all the on-stage hijinks and the complaints that they were essentially a novelty band, Peter & the Test Tube Babies were actually responsible for some of the hardest-hitting singles of the early '80s Oi! heyday. As usual with the series, 23 tracks round up both A- and B-sides, so a big hurrah for the [ read more ]
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This 1988 collection from Brighton, England, punk ballers Peter & the Test Tube Babies falls just one song short of 1996's Punk Singles Collection, but the 22 tracks that grace Castle's lazily titled Best of Peter & the Test Tube Babies remain as nefarious, off the wall, and infectious as they did in the early '80s. All of the band's hits are here ("Banned from the Pubs," "Run Like Hell," "Zombie Creeping Flesh," "Jinx," and "Intensive Care"), as well as deeper cuts like {&"I'm Ge [ read more ]
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Recorded in 1995, Supermodels broke the long hiatus since Cringe (1991). Having lost drummer Nicholas "Ogs" Loizides, the group had done some tours with Steve Wren sitting in on the traps. But without a recording label and management, the group was rather directionless and bereft of new material. This changed in 1994 with the great new songs collected here, written mostly by guitarist Derek "Del Boy" Greening. With the band having picked up new management, the demos of this material got {@We [ read more ]
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