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8 Year Old Mum were formed in late September 2004 whilst painfully sitting through a middle of the road acoustic act in the Hope and Anchor in London; it was decided that a new breed of band should be born, a band that would follow a few simple rules: No Songwriting! No Egos! No Compromise! The sound that had developed through irregular rehearsing/drinking sessions was favoured by the public. Crossing genres with a punk overtone, random and repetitive lyrics, heavy basslines, distorted guitar solos, diverse drum rhythms and loads of fucking swearing was going down a treat! But the thing that really sets this band aside from the constant conveyer belt of mediocre garage rock, is their singing Bez figure; The Waller; The Waller comes in the shape of 60 year old George Waller, successfull sculptor and performance artist. The Waller shouts obscenities, orgasms and manoeuvres around the stage like a 8 Year Old Mum on speed pills! Anyway enough trumpet blowing, have a listen to the downloads and you'll get the message:

WHAT PEOPLE THINK

Imagine if you will Sean Ryder in 10 years time, with a few more drugs ingested, with Kiss type make-up, backed by a noisy punk band singing songs in between swearing. Well that’s 8 Year Old Mum ! (Up All Night Music)

8 Year Old Mum are the dogs bollox - supported Drugdealercheerleader at The Spice. A bit like Alice Cooper crossed with The Streets crossed with GBH. They rock! And the lyrics are fucked up!

8 YEAR OLD MUM- Well what can you say about The Mum? Some find them to be offensive, but their neurotic psychotic punk dub throbbing has a beauty belied by the rather, er frank lyrics. Lyrics intoned by the young-ish short haired punk snarler and underpinned brilliantly by the old-ish long haired freak shamanizer…the traffic is crap, the journey is bloody great! (Bugbear)

8 Year Old Mum ...feel obliged to describe themselves as ‘retarded punk'…which we feel undervalues their monolithic psychedelic punk rather…PIL, Killing Joke etc..but check out the two frontmen here, one old enough to know worse…unmissable! (Bugbear)

8 YEAR OLD MUM – the most striking band on the circuit! Hate websites, detest just about everything as far as one can glean from their lyrics- lyrics superbly expressed thru dual vocalese…a young turk and an er, older aceeeed casualty type riffing off each other like a punk rock John Coltrane and Miles Davis. The band is a dub enthused punk rock tripout reminiscent of classic PIL and maybe Hawkwind at their Chinese eyed best. Unmissable. (Bugbear)

8 YEAR OLD MUM - "post art retarded punk" ha! exactly! Hawkwind, The Fall , PIL… All can be heard in this beastly but joyfully cathartic punk dub happening…some of the lyrics would make Peter Cook look askance it must be said…show all the pop star pretenders the door most effectively…quite possibly the best band EVER unless you don’t like them of course.

I saw a band called 8 year old mum on Saturday night. Has anyone else seen them? I'm not sure if they're funny or not and would appreciate some input to help me decide. They consisted of a really mild-mannered guitarist, a drummer, a frightening Lurch-alike bassist, a singing man with no top on, and a shouting scary drug-buggered old man with a top hat and long hair. Like Rod Hull gone wrong, saying "fuck" constantly. They opened with a song called "I'm not nervous" which was genuinely good, but then it all got a bit weird - taking in a song called "Traffic" with the lyrics (courtesy of shouty man) "I'm driving around in my little fucking car, my little fucking car, there's fucking people all around my little fucking car, people are all fucking cunts"; ending with a cover version: "Now I'm gonna fuck your dog". A ridiculous tubby punk from a Clash tribute band tried to fight with them, ostensibly because he thought they were calling him and his band cunts. This led to 8 year old mum being revealed as the foppish art-punks they really are. But I quite liked them, I'm remembering that as I write this. Does anyone else have such fond memories of this band?

8 YEAR OLD MUM… Tremendous irreverent 'retarded punk' act rockin' a double vocalist lineup, one of whom is well on the way to collecting the old pension would ya believe?! ATV and The Dead Kennedys figure in their winningly pseudo moronic rant based pop.

8 YEAR OLD MUM - the original psychedelik punk rock dubout malcontents…a twin vocal attack and a nasty fin de siecle world view…yes, the world is shite whether you're tripping or not. What a great soundtrack….