Ceramic Hobs - PSYCHIATRIC UNDERGROUND

Blackpool avant-punk noiseniks have been active from the mid-eighties onwards. The band started in the summer of 1985. Had gone insane by 1988 and by that we mean exile from society, pathologised and sectioned. They continued to release cassette only albums and diy 7''s of their Fall-style rockabilly, dub cow-punk & lo-fi dronescapes through out the late 80s/90s

PSYCHIATRIC UNDERGROUND was released in late 1998 by four labels: Landlord, Mental Guru, Pumf and Smith Research, in two slightly different sleeves . . the result of many recording sessions (with Neil Campbell,Richard Youngs and others) during 1996 and 1997 that were scheduled for release as two separate vinyl LPs by two underground labels. When this didn't happen it was decided to create a 70-minute CD of this inspired lysergic material. Allied to the Mad Pride movement of 'survivors of the mental health system', these 'Suppliers of Scotch Mist' are now up to their fourth full album PSYCHIATRIC UNDERGROUND (1998), STRAIGHT OUTTA RAMPTON (2001), SHERGAR IS HOME SAFE AND WELL (2004) and AL AL WHO (2007) & many other releases on tiny labels worldwide. . The Hobs are working on an album entitled OZ OZ ALICE, to be released in 2010

Ceramic Hobs - PSYCHIATRIC UNDERGROUND

1 Vigil
2 Self-fulfilling prophecy
3 Atomic clock
4 Amplified sorrow
5 Meeting the summertime
6 Hospital detective
7 This sore and blackpool legacy (germ mix)
8 These dead things
9 Pirate night for Karen Morgan
10 Hey lads hey
11 Dick Wittington, turn back (expose your eyes mix)
12 Mr vicar
13 Say goodbye to the president
14 robin blood
15 Crash and burn
16 Irreversible liver failure
17 Used goods/damaged goods
18 Winterbottom speaks
19 Love letters read like suicide notes
20 Long black limousine
21 Tomorrow
22 Total disarmament by June 1st 1983
23 Castrol gtx
24 Mr Vicar fills his heas with rock
25 Take fever puffs
26 Parrot night for captain Morgan
27 Psychiatric underground
28 Low alcowipe

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