Bigger on the Inside

I may have failed to mention in my review that I knew the lead singer of this band when I was at school (but not when he was at school). Alan Adams once called the first band I was in “the most exciting band he had seen since the Southern Death Cult”. Since then I went on to get a proper job and he occasionally writes episodes for The Bill and has appeared on Telly Addicts with Noel Edmonds. I guess neither of us are as punk as we like to think we are.

There are no real surprises on this EP other than it features the drummer of my second band on bass on one track. He ironically got a job in record shop that I was fired from not long after I was fired and now works for a man who claims to have fired me once. I have just 2 words to say to that particular man, “I resigned”.

The title of this split EP translates from Latin into “Hardwork Conquers All” and that speaks volumes for this release. It harkens back to a day when independent releases were independent of major record labels. It has a real “do it yourself” work ethic stamped through it like a stick of rock.

[From Eastfield/Destructors 666: Labor Omnia Vincit < Music | PopMatters]