those who have been in sawn off : chrissy, andy stick, dickie, scalezy, ash, johnny deadman, tom, colin, sned, chris gazza, johnny lobster, dingo, graham.
the 'where are they now' file
most ex members are involved in horrible bands still:
ash , sned, chris gazza and dingo went on to play in BOXED IN (2001 - 2005) ash ,sned and dingo now play in WAR ALL THE TIME, chris moved to london and now plays in GIVE UP ALL HOPE. scalezy moved to edinburgh and shouts for AFTERBIRTH, andy stick played in SHANK, moved to Canada and now plays in THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE, deadman,tom and chrissy play in geordie dead kennedys tribute band called the DEED KENNEDYS.
johnny lobster R.I.P.
2009 line up is the longest serving original members of Chrissy drums, Johnny deadman Guitar, Ash guitar, Tom bass, Scalezy and Dickie vox.
Influences
fast fast fast
Sounds Like
st etienne 2001 - theres more from this gig on youtube, just search for 'sawn off'
'Songs of Praise' - split 7inch with HEALTH HAZARD (1997) Flat Earth / Smack in the Mouth
"Blast beats galore are mixed in with pissed off lyrics about how fucked our world is. This EP is a fucking must get." MRR
'The Album' (2000)- LP on MacGuyver , CD on Flat Earth, Tape on Insane Society.
"Sawn Off's sound is akin to ironing your ears to the side of your head. Brutal, mad as fuck vocals, with music that's all over the place, going from heavy sludge-sounding dirges to an all out thrash attack the next song. Killer release from a Killer northern European band." Holeee shit grandad! 26 tracks of deafening brutality lyrically taking on religion, nazis, and other societal poisons. The one band that comes to mind in comparison is Crossed Out, so you should know where this is coming from. The singer sounds like he swallows pushpins to get that voice, and the bass, drums, and geet are tight as hell, pummeling you into aural submission. This LP captures ALL of their previously released songs, plus some unreleased tracks from 1998, so if you missed out the first time, now's the chance to show those neighborhood kids you're still "in the know."ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES Catalogue
'split ep with UNKIND' (2001) Pathetique
As is tradition, bands that split always tend to leave on a high. Sawn Off are no different. This last effort is four songs of supreme crust brutality- just as they have always delivered. Hyperfast punk, the anger is so evident in the music, matched blow by blow by the lyrics." ??
the family of Harkonnen sends off greetings from Northern Germany. Stay creative and fuck the system…
VRHN & Philipp
„Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.” (John Maynard Keynes)
Hey yeah.....we are you new favorite assemble CAPTAIN HITLER from good old germany and want you to listen to our new elektro-trash-single BRAINFUCK!!! Be invited to visit our site and listen to this smooth grooves ;) Don't forget to tell your friends!!! See ya soon!!!
VIOLENT HEADACHE / NECROMORPH - split CD
VIOLENT HEADACHE, Grindcore institution from Xpain is back and gives us 15 new, harsh and intense studio recorded punches of old school grindcore mixed with dirty crust tunes in the vein of early
Napalm Death.
NECROMORPH from Germoney presents 17 fucking hard scandinavian styled grindcore trax with influeces of crust and death metal. Their stuff was mastered by Pluto (Haemorrhage..)
Get 40 minutes pure massacre !
10 short stories: the fast paced & brutal Harvest careers its way across Europe; while the more thoughtful & reflective The Jad deals with growing up on Tyneside. Feral: clash between modern urban youth & someone who lived their dream. Scorpio: tale of revenge. Mariella: short sequel to Harvest. Kerfuffle: short fast paced story of obsession & love. Bastille Day: humorous tale which strikes a chord with anyone doomed to the penal servitude of the school run! Colin: leaves you guessing to the very last moment. Night Shift: the seedy underbelly of life in a low rent Belgian night club. Deadline: short & brutal.
Micky has spent the last 26 years concentrating on not making any money from playing in a succession of bands such as The Blood Robots, Generic, Anything But That, One By One, Ebola, & Jinn; & thought it was time to add pen to plectrum as weapon of torture.
"Drawing on his years in the gritty DIY punk scene, & dredging up universal memories of bleak, grey childhoods, Micky McGuinness has penned a deliciously grim and nihilistic collection of hard-nosed crime fiction, peopled with the sort of realistically nasty characters we might all have grown up with living next door to us... shining a light into the darkest recesses of the subconcious where REVENGE is king, this is an impressively memorable body of believable work that will stay with you long after the last bloody act of retribution has splattered the final page..." --Ian Glasper author of Burning Britain & The Day The Country Died.
out now on bolzkow: instinct of survival - north of nowhere LP 9 songs of raging and heavy crust 1st. pressing incl. poster! orders to: bolzkow@lobusch.org u.s. pressing soon out on world funeral!