1986 – Present. PEH appeared like a spore and thrived on a collective love of freaky music and getting wasted in a most pro-active way.
No sitting around on beanbags contemplating navels but many forays into the woods at night in a right state, along with all-night sessions in the Dead Fly
Studios (Owned & run by Tjunca and the Prof) ,before it was burnt down.
In the Professor's lab, in isolation, PEH began experimenting bending the laws of physics and through this
discovering the Laws of THREE & SEVEN... We began to work until it hurt.
The road to enlightenment is different for each esoteric traveller but ours was paved with blood, vomit, physical pain and tear-inducing laughter. The music was a beast we
adopted. We gave it a home and it taught us tricks. Before long we could jump through hoops and perform muscular acrobatics
we never envisaged such a scrawny foundling to be capable of.
From there on-in things developed into a “Cosmodemonic Freak Theater” (Rockerilla magazine, Italy) with the creation of bio-mechanical death masks, matching black shadow suits and frenetic
epilepsy - delivered by dual frontmen “overdosed on Lucozade” (Keraang
magazine) - who had a knack of inadvertently insulting the audience and generally talking bollocks (only
in-between songs of course!)
Five albums on four different labels:
DRINK ME 1986
POISONED ELECTRICK HEAD spring 1992
UNMISTEAKABLY RAINBOW TROUT autumn 1992
THE BIG EYE AM 1994
and THE HANGED MAN 1996
...we were like ‘The Incredible
Hulk’ - we had to leave at the end of every episode. Somewhere in the region of 600 concerts
plus (we stopped counting around 1995) in Britain and mainland Europe followed.
Inevitably, disinterest from the music busiess, sheer physical strain psychological
turmoil, substance abuse, marital break-ups and those fucking latex masks began to take their
toll and PEH was removed from active duty in late 1998. As the TELEBOT - who had been there from the
beginning- needed the qualities of PEH and so took them to Ecuador (barefoot).
The boiler suit/masks thing was jettisoned sometime in ’97, deemed to be the barrier between the band and better things. Hindsight can only conclude that somewhere in Iowa, someone was taking notes…:-)
The full story has been documented in the forthcoming book "Take Your Protein Pills".
As per a previous request and following on from someone else too. Any chance of a reunion? I beleiev Steps are doing one so I reckon ya get ya thongs in there first!!!! And where's the bloody Doovdah that Bill was supposed to be sorting out????
What better way to celebrate 20 years of The Citadel than the return of show biz legend Frank Sidebottom. Expect a night of music, comedy, tombolas and lectures from Timperley's most famous son, however don't tell his mum she thinks he's just popped down the shops!
Compering the event will be none other than The Lancashire Hotpots Bernard Thresher.
Five new recordings, two feat. Claire Lemmon (SIDI BOU SAID & CARDIACS) which are now 'up' on my page, ready for your ears... so have a listen! ...please
total blast from yonder!p.e.h use to send me postcards bout gigs when lived in oxton over water,can remember crown and cushion bolton,telfords chester,stairways birkenhead,citadel st helens,sefton park...etc,woz with me ex got her into p.e.h,few years back got me copy off hanged man robbed,well woz in car when it woz had off,got any copies kickin round tha end?
Thanks - check out the Ilkley Moor Baat'Ed Vegimix - a little something I knocked up some time ago - includes Rat from Rabid Nettles/THC on bleats and the late Pete Webb on commentary - plus my mum singing the chorus...
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