Poison Girls - Statement

Poison Girls formed in Brighton in 1976, before moving to Burleigh House in Essex, near to Dial House, the home of fellow anarchist band Crass, with whom they worked closely for a number of years, playing over 100 gigs with the band.
In 1979 they contributed to the revival of the peace movement by playing a number of benefit gigs with Crass and paying for the production of the first CND badges since CND's heyday. Again in 1979, and again with Crass, they proved influential to the establishment of the short lived Wapping Autonomy Centre by contributing the track "Persons Unknown" to a split single with Crass (who contributed "Bloody Revolutions") and raising over £10,000. Their song "Bully Boys", an attack on violent machismo led to the band being attacked by members of the National Front.
The band also set up the label X-N-Trix alongside a publishing arm for the Impossible Dream magazine and recording studios for other artists.

Though their last studio recording to date was in 1985, a number of Poison Girls compilations have since been released and their songs frequently appear on punk anthologies.

Band members:
Vi Subversa - vocals & guitar (forever)
Richard Famous - guitar & vocals (forever)
Lance d'Boyle - drums & backing vocals (1976-84)
Bella Donna - bass (1976-77)
Bernhardt Rebours - bass & synth, piano & backing vocals (1979-81)
Max Vol - bass (1985-89)
Agent Orange - drums (1985-89)

and then

Pete Fender - bass (1978, 1984, et al)
Scotty Boy Barker - bass (1978)
Nil - tapes (1979-1981)
Chris Grace - bass (1982-83)
Mark Dunn - bass (1983-84)
Cynth Ethics - synth & vocals (1983-85)
Martin Heath - bass (1984)
Andy - bass (1989)
Tom "Tom" Barwood - sound (1983-89).

Poison Girls' "Statement" is a four CD compilation box set, released in 1995 on Cooking Vinyl.

Tracks:
Disc One 1977-80
1-2 recorded by Pete Fender, live to stereo 1977
3-4 12" split with 'Fatal Microbes, released in 1979
5 LP 7 Year Scratch (77284), released in 1984
6-13 12" Hex, originally released in 1979
14 7" split with Crass, released in 1980
15-18 LP Total Exposure, released in 1981.

Tracklisting Disc One:
1. Revenge
2. Cat's Eye
3. Piano Lessons
4. Closed Shop
5. The Moon (I Wanted)
6. Old Tart
7. Crisis
8. Ideologically Unsound
9. Bremen Song
10. Political Love
11. Jump Mama Jump
12. Under The Doctor
13. Reality Attack
14. Persons Unknown
15. State Control
16. Bully Boys
17. Tension
18. SS Snoopers

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Disc Two 1981-82
1 7" All Systems Go, released in 1981
2-11 LP + 7" flexi Chappaquiddick Bridge, released in 1980
12 7" All Systems Go, released in 1981
13 LP + 7" flexi Chappaquiddick Bridge, released in 1980
14-15 LP Total Exposure, released in 1981.

Tracklisting Disc Two:
1. Promenade Immortelle
2. State Control
3. Another Hero
4. Hole In The Wall
5. Underbitch
6. Alienation
7. Pretty Polly
8. Good Time
9. Other
10. Daughters And Sons
11. Tender Love
12. Dirty Work
13. Statement
14. Don't Go Home Tonight
15. Fucking Mother

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Disc Three 1983-84
1-13 LP Where's The Pleasure, released in 1982
14 12" Are You Happy Now, released in 1983
15 7" One Good Reason, released in 1983
16 LP 7 Year Scratch (77284), released in 1984
17 12" I'm Not A Real Woman, released in 1984
18-19 LP 7 Year Scratch (77284), released in 1984.

Tracklisting Disc Three:
1. Where's The Pleasure
2. Lovers Are They Worth It?
3. Done It All Before
4. Whiskey Voice
5. Menage Abattoir
6. Take The Toys
7. Soft Touch
8. Toys (Reprise)
9. Velvet Launderette
10. Rio Disco Stink
11. Cry No More
12. Mandy Is Having A Baby
13. Fear Of Freedom
14. Happy Now
15. Cinnamon Garden
16. Offending Article
17. Perfect Crime
18. Tell The Children
19. Cream Dream

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Disc Four 1985-88
1 12" I'm Not A Real Woman, released in 1984
2-10 LP Songs Of Praise, released in 1985
11-14 12" The Price Of Grain And The Price Of Blood, released in 1985
15-19 recorded at XNTRIX Studios 1986 & 1987
20 partial recording of State Control.

Tracklisting Disc Four:
1. Real Woman
2. Hot For Love
3. Riot In My Mind
4. Feeling The Pinch
5. Desperate Days
6. Voodoo Pappadollar
7. Too Close For Comfort
8. Rockface
9. No More Lies
10. Too Proud
11. Price Of Grain
12. Stonehenge
13. Jenny
14. Girls Over There
15. Let It Go
16. Cupid
17. Mirrors And Glass
18. Abort The System
19. All The Way
20. State Banjo

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