Item Detail
racks 1 to 3 recorded at Spaceward Studios, Cambridge: 2nd September 1979. Previously released on a 7” as 1970’s EP.
Tracks 4 to 8 recorded at The Triad, Bishop’s Stortford: 5th September 1979.
Tracks 9 to 18 recorded at The Triad, Bishop’s Stortford: 1st July 1979.
Tracks 19 and 20 recorded at The Railway Hotel, Bishop’s Stortford: 11th November 1978.
Tracks 21 to 23 recorded at The Speedway Studios, Romford: 31st March 1979.
Tracks 24 and 25 recorded at The Triad Rehearsal Room, Bishop’s Stortford: 5th November 1979.
Tracks 26 and 27 recorded at Conway Hall, Holborn: 26th May 1979.
Track 28 recorded at The Triad Rehearsal Room, Bishop’s Stortford: 23rd September 1979.
In 1978 forming a punk band and expecting to be taken seriously was not on the list headed “Good Ideas” but that didn’t deter four young punks from deciding to lower the tone of the neighbourhood and deciding to call themselves The Epileptics after a suggestion by one of their mothers.
Crass played in Bishop’s Stortford in August 1978 and the two bands got talking. A few weeks later The Epileptics had a gig with Crass at The Basement in Covent Garden. Only five people turned up during the soundcheck, then left. The Epileptics played their set to Crass followed by Crass playing their set to The Epileptics. An alliance had been formed that would last for many years!
Complaints of ‘ill-conceited jocularity’ from The British Epilepsy Association resulted in a name change to Epi-x, then changed to The Licks under pressure from Strortbeat who released the bands debut “1970s” single, much played by John Peel.
More releases and national acclaim followed, all too much for the local punks to handle so a backlash started and in 1979 the last few gigs ended in slanging matches.
In early 1980 the nucleus of Colin and Derek re-emerged renamed as Flux Of Pink Indians, but that’s another story… (Text from Overground Records)
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