Thursday, 7 February 2019

Prick Decay & Neil Campbell ‎– "Rate Of CHB Is In" (Union Pole ‎– UP55) 1996


Breathe easy.....Prick Decay also did collaborations with unknowns with no ambitions to be a corporate whore of any description. One of them being Neil Campbell, the prolific sound abstracter from Yorkshire who's manin claim to fame is that he used to be in the Vibracathedral Orchestra.
These two sonic rebrobates, rather than sonic youths, manage to create a sound that is not unlike what your self charging radio would sound like after Russia and America have tested their new intermediate range nuclear missiles on your expendable social housing estate.
Naturally the poor and lower stratas of the middle class will be vaporised first, but the inevitable second wave of long range warheads will wipe out all communications centres, and, regretabbly BBC Braodcasting House will be, i'm sorry to say, nothing more than rubble. Don't those fuckers realise that was a grade one listed building!?.....whatever happened to the fabled Neutron Bomb that just zapps people rather than damaging our heritage and infastructure!
Who would you let into your fallout shelter?
And if you force your way into your neighbours because you haven't got one, be pretty sure that its not a false alarm before you start behaving like a cornered animal.That's a side of our personalities that should never be exposed in public.
One does have the comforting thought that all those celebrities and politicians that will survive in their own luxurious bunkers, will all die horribly when they finally leave their shelter when the water runs out.And, further comfort yourselves with the thought that they are all completely useless at anything real, like farming, basic DIY or building stuff,like theatres for those actors succumbing to Radiation Sickness.All the real people were left to die a quick death so that these important people can live on for another month or so.
The cover of this cassette doesn't look like a mushroom cloud for nothing y'know?

Tracklisting:

A Am Closing In On Skint
B Jerks And Shirts


2 comments:

badgerstump said...

Neil's biggest claim to infamy used to be Vibracathedral but that was a long time ago (although I've heard there was some low key vibra reunions in Leeds a year or two ago so you never know) ... he outgrew that with Astral Social Club, some of it is here on a pay whatever basis: https://astralsocialclub.bandcamp.com/music

I recommend all of it... also met him, nice bloke

Jonny Zchivago said...

Yeah, i got a couple of Vibracathedral cd-rs....and one Astral Social Club somewhere.Might search it out,might not.
He seems a nice bloke from his work,now you've confirmed it for me...name dropper.