| Member Since | 7/22/2008 | | Band Members | pStan Batcow (bass, effects, percussion), Kate Fear (violin, effects, penny whistle), Nigel Joseph (adapted guitar, effects), RooH (keyboard), Ging Shi-ite (drums), Phil Smith (percussion, clutter, effects, prepared guitar), John Tree (percussion machine thingy) & Andrew Truth (percussion). Line-up fluctuates with availability.
All have been contributors to the Ceramic Hobs at some point. pStan, John & Phil have been in Poco Loco & Everything and the Kitchen Sink. John is & Phil has been in Blowjangles. pStan has been in Dandelion Adventure, Hedgehog In Bracken, Blunt Instrument, Judge Mental & the Heavy Dread Beat & many more bands & records solo as Howl In the Typewriter. He runs http://www.pumf.net and has put on umpteen gigs & zines (see Pumf site). RooH has been in Tropicana Fishtank & the Valvetronics & records solo as RooHmania. Kate Fear has appeared with Smell & Quim, Mrs Cakehead & Glyn Bailey & has recorded in For Harlow's Monkeys, Animal Fanny & with Nigel Joseph. She runs Misspawn Records, has contributed to various zines & Djs for the Recovery Room and...whatever. Nigel is a long-standing solo noisemaker & previously put out Nervous Breakdown zine. He is a dichotomised & self-abnegating bike doctor & Fenian. Ging leads the The Shi-ites and Needle Park. Phil is The Haddenham One & previously Drexler's Mistake & has previously recorded in Ovid Corpse. He has previously run Scum Tapes & its offshoots Pikie Records, Landlord Records & MHW CDRs. He also very occasionally puts on the Godspunk events & was previously part of the Termite Club, Leeds Student Radio, The Network & Bay Radio. He also runs a blog at http://www.myspace.com/philreadsbooks and has contributed to various zines. John has recorded as Pilzin Sox & in The Time Flies! He runs Global Midnight Records, as well as the Fusion Fridays & Recovery Room events. Andrew Truth was editor of Plane Truth zine & has sung backing vox with Pavement & Trumans Water!! | | Influences | Noise rock, Kraut Rock, space rock, drone metal, industrial, shoegaze, psych, fire music, lo-fi, twee, blues, go go, samba, Senegalese drumming, punk, surf, hard acid, noisecore & the least noodly post-rock...Fes Parker, Astral Social Club, Skullflower, Smell & Quim, My Bloody Valentine, Butthole Surfers, Meathooks, Sonic Youth, Swans, Napalm Death, Blue Humans, Vermonster, Monoshock, Crystallized Movements, Rema-Rema, Godflesh, Big Stick, Slayer, Fruitcake, Pain Teens, Melt Banana, Mercury Rev, Wolf Eyes, Happy Flowers, Cock ESP, Monopolka, Harry Pussy, Terminal Cheesecake, Headless Piss, Blowhole, Descension, The Bunnybrains, Kilslug, Splintered, Ovo, Headbutt, Smegma, Nihilist Spasm Band, Bardo Pond, Dead C, Cul De Sac, Circle, Hal McGee, Pile of Eggs, Masonna, Caroliner, Missing Foundation, Jessica Rylan, Hecate, Napalmed, Amon Duul, Neu!, Can, Faust, Rancid Poultry, Cluster, Popol Vuh, Boredoms, Hawkwind, The Orb, seefeel, Dub Syndicate, Acid Mothers Temple, Spacemen 3, Loop, Porcupine Tree, Black Sabbath, Earth, Melvins, Goatsnake, Cathedral, Einsturzende Neubauten, Foetus, Slowdive, Velvet Underground, Plastic People of the Universe, Fifty Foot Hose, Blue Cheer, Syd Barrett, Robyn Hitchcock, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Frank Lowe, Anthony Braxton, Henri Chopin, Satie, Schoenberg, God Is My Co-Pilot, Inca Eyeball, Crescent, Po!, Papa Sprain, The Shadow Ring, Trumans Water, Field Mice, Bearsuit, Pram, John Maus, Robert Johnson, Neil Young, Lightnin Slim, Howlin Wolf, Elmore James, John Mayall, Buddy Guy, Albert King, Lonnie Johnson, Charley Patton, Pogues, Beefheart, Tampa Red, Leadbelly, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bukka White, Otis Spann, Trouble Funk, Rare Essence, Atmosfear, Parlifunk, Prince, Bloco Vomit, Konono No. 1, PiL, The Fall, Crass, Huggy Bear, Nightingales, Young Marble Giants, What Is Oil?, Skinned Teen, Nutmeg, Link Wray, Aphex Twin, Drop Bass Network, Industrial Strength Records, Bloody Fist Recordings, The Bug, Panacea, Labradford, Stars of the Lid, Mogwai, Explosions In the Sky, William S. Burroughs, Marquis De Sade, Robert Sheckley, Whitt & Pratney...
 | | Sounds Like | A racket | | Record Label | Pumf, Misspawn, Flumptones, anyone else up for it? | | Type of Label | Indie |
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