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formed late 1989 : Michael - Voice, Christopher - Bass, Pete - Guitars, Billy - Drums ...released 3 track tape ep: ave maria new maps of hell ep 1. Desperate Measures 2. Dance On The Wire 3. Mecca's Deadplayed live a few times : fucking chaos. Jane Greenhow briefly involved but never reached fruition. She hit headlines in 1996 in her own way sadly. x'recouped' for one show with Tuxedomoon in 2004, with Matthew and Karl from Sex Gang Children on Guitar and Bass Respectively, and Jose handling the Drum Machine 'Billy Whizz', and Synth, and another, by request, as special guests to Sex Gang Children in London.M. recorded solo studio tracks Smash His HEad To Bits, Limbs, it'scoldonfire, and Caliban and A Place of Infinite Darkness 1 and 2 which have been lost forever (the latter 3), which is unfortunate. They were great.Briefly involved somewhat prior to this were Lotta and Matthew again, who then joined Selfish Cunt full time.'recouped' again in 2006 with a new guitarist J Jinx, and bassist Vicky, and a new drummer, who has now been replaced but remains the same : Solomon Grundy AKA 'billy' (WHIZZ). The others were fired. Played a few more gigs, were shit / shit hot, in turns, but only shit in Bristol, due to alcohol and exhaustion, coupled with lack of interest, and lack of lighting, mixing, and curious absence of obligatory smoke machine overdrive. One incendiary show in London with Black Ice, two with Sixteens, and one final headlining gig at Behind Bars, with Animals and Men as support, joined onstage with the mighty Gordon Sharp of Cindytalk, for a final duet of GONE. With more than enough disorientation courtesy of customary /spoofy / mandatory smoke machine fucked disco, queasy lighting, black psychosis, and Viet Cong space echo sex and violence uneasy electricity, to make it worthwhile 'joining in' with the rather dark and unhip, intense and overloading, yet wholeheartedly entertaining and genuiune Atomic bombing that ensued..A few more recordings : collaborations with Seven from the now Defunkt Devotachka S Conundrum, and Karl, the Machiavellian analogue heart throb from now defunkt 21st Century cult godffathers White Car Pet and more recently the generally most hated, commendably ambitious and tersely in your face UK pop group ULTERIOR . : LABOR PARTY, and A FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES, which may get an airing at some point (again).The name is too good to waste, unlike most bands who demonstrate their immediate futilty and disgusting lack of appeal, total absence of necessity, pertinence and human worth, with appropriately pathetic, shit, and mentally handicapped choice of band name. e.g. in particular at this present time The Twang, These New Puritans, Panic At The Disco, Glasvegas and those other fuck ugly, fuck stupid, posh wannabe ironic underground wankerhead sixth form ironic, smirky attitude, sucky, boring Artrocker nme stupid studenty conformist spiv trendy dickhead middle class WASP bozo 'wanking gang' pseudo intellectual fake pisshead cannon fodder own club night 'ensembles', who were and are always the premise of what TJOAF always irrefutablydespised and proactively denied and repelledIf you have read The Miracle Of The Rose by Jean Genet, you'll get the insistent metraphor. The Joan Of Arc Family is a phenomenally great name for a pop / rock and roll ultra-entity, of our thrashy rare ilk, especially as it was an immediate choice literally applied, and with terrible insight from a pair of the most bored and apalled 15 year old malcontents in the world ever , their only supportive and qualified friend and trusty Dr Rhythm 55, and a drug and sex oriented, out of place, technically proficient and gonzoid chav sex god, the only application to an ad back then, and together became successfully hated by our Public Enemies No 1 ' pigfuck apostles of the baby making rape machine' ie grebos, Goffs, crusties, followers who at the mid end of the 80's, were shitting on our doorsteps, pissing in our faces.The name fits perfectly with other West Yorkshire band names of the time, inspiring us and predating e.g. The Sisters Of Mercy, The March Violets, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Skeletal Family, New Model Army, Salvation, Into A Circle, Siiiiii, Chatshow .. in numerous contexts and nuances. All of them reasonably cliched, unambiguous, cheeky, and logistically ultra cynical.Anyway, new line up, old hope. age old things to destroy and fuck up ... Never dies, just regrows: ask Strictly types Kali and Shiva. Still want to die, under crisp frost in the Blackpool Winter Gardens (turning the clocks back), obsessed with thick dust, nettles and used elastoplasts. Will never have a real drummer, or a fast car.Hate all the right targets, totally love one or two things.andandandandandandand&+&+&+&+&+&a mp;+&+ANDANDANDANDetund-y-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-N-N-N-N- N-N-N-N-N-N-N-dddddDDDDdddddDDDDDD A n d ... uh:_________|..; 2009 will also most probably heraldWCP posthumous vinyl release DREAM DEATH SISTER 4.48 PSYCHOSISWE Don't take it lightly!