Rudimentary Peni was a band that lurked in the shadows of success of the British anarcho-punk movement. The band's lyrics alternate between witty macabre (written by Nick Blinko) and socio-political lyrics (written by Grant Matthews), and is currently one of the only bands from that movement that holds a fanatical fanbase to date. Lead singer/guitarist, Nick Blinko is popular in the Art Brut scene and wrote an autobiographical novel called The Primal Screamer, revered amongst his fans to be a literary masterpiece. Nick Blinko also played in the band The Magits, which formed before Rudimentary Peni in 1977 and was primarily electronic and inaccessible to most punk listeners.Nowadays, modern musicians of a variety of genres (from death metal to apocalyptic folk) take influence from the work of Rudimentary Peni. There is even an all-girl high school cover band that does all Rudimentary Peni. The legend created by Rudimentary Peni is part in thanks to their evasion of media coverage and the spread of misinformation. Some people maintain that Nick Blinko had many psychiatric problems while others hold to claims that he has simply been employed by psychiatric institutions and thus drew his influence from the patients he had met. There are a varying theories as to the reality of these stories, but the most important things to the fans seem to really be the music
