The Ultra Violet Queen & Day Glo Goddess of punk, Lead singer Zillah Minx and director & creator of the underground cult classic punk film 'She's a Punk Rocker' an oral history of women in punk told by the women who were part of the creation we now call PUNK.*****
Sid Truelove aka Sidation; drummer, songwriter and founder member known for his pounding tribal drum sound.*****Recently Sid was picked by Poly Styrene to bring the Rubella Ballet energy and pounding precision to X-Ray Spex and perform to a sell out crowd at the Roundhouse in Camden, London September 2008.***** Go to the video section to see it live *****
Influences
'Anarchy in the U.K.' £8 Rubella Ballet's first part
of their full back catalogue since 1979
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'At the end of the Rainbow' LP £10
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'At last it's Playtime' £6 Remastered on CD
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'IF' £6 Remastered on CD
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'The Freak Box' £10 Rubella Ballet's first video
made in 1984 now remastered on DVD
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Limited edition UV Skull T.shirts £10 (Only a few M & L sizes left)
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'She's a Punk Rocker U.K.' £10 A film about PUNKS by Zillah Minx
Sounds Like
Check out Radio 1's John Peel site and see the Rubella Ballet Page, well we did do two radio one sessions for John and he even played one of our sessions on his all time best session birthday show as we were one of his favourite bands for being different.*****
Rest in Peace
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Rubella Ballet formed in 1979 by Sid Ation, Zillah Minx, Pete Fender & sister Gem Stone (Fatal Microbes) at the famous Crass gig at Conway Hall where Crass invited the audience to use their equipment and finish off the evening doing their own thing as they wanted and left the crowd in charge, so Sid got up on Penny’s drum kit, Zillah grabbed Steve’s mic, Pete & Gem taking the bass and guitar, it probably sounded well rough but it was the start of a very colourful part of what was and is the British anarcho punk scene. Sid whilst being in Rubella Ballet was also drumming for Flux of Pink Indians and played on the single Tube Disaster also supplying the music for the b side Sick Butchers and Background to malfunction, Flux did many gigs with Rubella Ballet and Sid ended up playing for both bands on the night, Sid left sometime after to play full time for Rubella Ballet ********
The band are well known for their psychedelic stage show and the use of nothing more than a UV lights, strobes and a bit of smoke to illuminate the band, the music has the same innovative psychedelic qualities fusing punk, tribal, dance and absolute weirdness into a myriad of music styles.********
Sid and Zillah synonymous for the shock value of wearing home made ultraviolet hand painted day-glo clothes along with their multi coloured day-glo Mohican hair cuts through the east end of London's, dark, violent, poor, ghettoized, shithole, (a direct result of Thatcher’s Government) everywhere they went people smiled and laughed at them instead of hurling abuse or wanting to beat them up or kill them for being different.******** Rubella Ballet fronted by Zillah Minx has, with Sid and all their friends around the world created a whole Day-glo Death Rock Punk Scene that is spreading and spreading******** Rubella Ballet are very happy to anounce the release of a their full back catalogue through Overground Records on two CD's with full colour 12 page booklets in both CD's ******** The first release 'ANARCHY IN THE U.V.' is now available on Overground Records (Go to http://www.overgroundrecords.co.uk/release.asp?Release=OVER121VPCD) or on Amazon at (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_m?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=Rubella+Ballet&x=0&y=0) Go to our blog section to view the reviews the band have already received ******** The second release 'NEVER MIND THE DAY-GLO' is to be available mid 2009 ******* Anarchy In The U.V. includes two unreleased tracks, their debut cassette tape Ballet Bag (1982) , the 4 track 7" EP Ballet Dance (1982), their debut album At Last Its Play Time (1985) and the 12” version of Money Talks (1985) all digitally remastered and packed in a 12-page booklet designed by Sid and Zillah ******** The band are also working on new material for a long awaited new album with possible release time late 2009 ******** Rubella Ballet's new Scary Skull design T.Shirts are still available in nearly all sizes up to XXL (No Small) but with a special limited run of a thousand they are selling out quickly so first come, first served! Plenty of XL & XXL ********* The second of two psychedelic skulls is planned for a limited run in 2009 ******** Rubella Ballet merchandise available here ********
THE RETURN OF THE BAT
Specimen will bring their special brand of glam mayhem, The Batcave to London again.
After last year’s wildly-successful 25th anniversary Batcave event, The Batcave returns to its original spawning ground of London’s West End on Sunday July 19 for another night of blasphemy, lechery and blood.
Specimen (Fresh from a fantastic show at Leipzig’s Waves Gotik festival), the original Batcave instigators will headline the lurid frolics at the Embassy Club, (29 Old Burlington St, London W1S3AP) Also on the bill are original Batcavers Sexbeat, with DJs Hamish and Cavey Nick, cavorting from decks to decadence with the usual brutal, trouser-dropping surprises & suitably confronting & barbaric entertainment.
The 2009 Batcave will feature installations from exciting new artists of the ‘Dark London Underground’ and visuals from the upcoming ‘Welco
THE RETURN OF THE BAT
Specimen will bring their special brand of glam mayhem, The Batcave to London again.
After last year’s wildly-successful 25th anniversary Batcave event, The Batcave returns to its original spawning ground of London’s West End on Sunday July 19 for another night of blasphemy, lechery and blood.
Specimen (Fresh from a fantastic show at Leipzig’s Waves Gotik festival), the original Batcave instigators will headline the lurid frolics at the Embassy Club, (29 Old Burlington St, London W1S3AP) Also on the bill are original Batcavers Sexbeat, with DJs Hamish and Cavey Nick, cavorting from decks to decadence with the usual brutal, trouser-dropping surprises & suitably confronting & barbaric entertainment.
The 2009 Batcave will feature installations from exciting new artists of the ‘Dark London Underground’ and visuals from the upcoming ‘Welcome To The Batcave’ book, along with this year’s bitcrushed message from the creature in t
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'At the end of the Rainbow' LP £10
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'At last it's Playtime' £6 Remastered on CD
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'IF' £6 Remastered on CD
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'The Freak Box' £10 Rubella Ballet's first video
made in 1984 now remastered on DVD
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Limited edition UV Skull T.shirts £10 (Only a few M & L sizes left)
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'She's a Punk Rocker U.K.' £10 A film about PUNKS by Zillah Minx
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