10th Jan 2023 – I don’t think there’s anything to add to this – I don’t have the precise date – between 16th Feb and 20th Mar, I don’t know who Q.E.D. were and I don’t remember a venue called Bacchus. This may have been a random visit to a bar and a band was playing, or maybe someone I knew, knew someone in the band and I tagged along to check them out. Either way, I guess nothing memorable really happened this night!
Author: shaun tenzenmen
Australasian DIY music specialist and practising poet, amongst other things
*Thatcher On Acid, Political Asylum, (Danbert Nobacon), Life Cycle, Rectified – Labour Club, Southampton, Hampshire, UK – 16th February 1989
I Don’t Wanna – 11th February 1989
I don’t wanna be like you
I just want to be with you
You make me feel like something new
In The Car – 19th January 1989
Guess what I found in the car
It was a two-year-old chocolate bar
Melted in the heat, under your feet
So I picked it up and threw it in the street
A young lad came along
And sensing nothing wrong
Picked up the bar from where I threw it
And quite innocently began to chew it
Little did he know, as he ate
That a fungus had developed of late
And this began to make him feel great
But also left him in a state
The lesson is of course – always eat off a plate
Blot Test – 18th January 1989
Squashed butterfly
Mashed potato
Am I Mad?
Is this NATO?
I can see quite clearly
There, there stands the figure of death
And he is waiting for me
Fantastic Ocean – 17th January 1989
You wave as the steamer deserts me
Thinking about you only hurts me
The sun is tingling from the fantastic sky
Wishing you the best as we say goodbye
In Captivity – 16th January 1989
Behind the bars, the monkeys schemed
Forming a plan we’d never dreamed
To take over the human race
And put us in their former place
Mystery Clouds – 13th January 1989
The mystery clouds are descending
Around the hoverman
Bouncing ’round the window
Clean with a steam
Just in time for Mr Dream
Sick of it?
You’ll need a stick for it
To make it stick
Hoverman has no problem with the mystery clouds
He just thinks them out loud
And falls down proud
On The Beach – 10th January 1989
On the beach
The procession proceeds into recession
The oppressor’s aggression
Had good intention
On the beach
The clowns roll around the dunes
To the invisible trumpeter’s tunes
Hate That Smile, Corporate Grave – Labour Club, Southampton, Hampshire, UK – 29th December 1988
Unsure of the date or exact location of the recording – I believe it may be at the Labour Club, Southampton, either on 20/10/88, 2/12/88 or 29/12/88. We played there 3 times in 2 months – all with Corporate Grave!