Premature Ejaculation

Premature Ejaculation was formed originally in 1981, with Rozz Williams and performance artist Ron Athey; the two were friends and lived together. Unlike Christian Death, Premature Ejaculation did not use standard "rock band" instruments, instead sound was created using various objects and lo-fi devices.Williams' group Christian Death had broken up during this year and he started this project; they played very few live performances, because clubs began refusing to book them, and some of their stage theatrics were very controversial. One of the acts included Athey eating a dead cat (the animal, had died originally through roadkill and was found by the duo). Christian Death was reformed in the summer of 81, and Premature Ejaculation was put on ice.The band was reformed in 1987, two years after vocalist and songwriter Rozz Williams left the deathrock band Christian Death. He was joined by Lee Wilds and then Chuck Collison and Kris Fuller. The group's themes remained avante-garde throughout and focused on the bizzare and taboo, they would use sound clips from crying babies to chainsaws and film clips. In their early live shows, the duo would sometimes throw meat and eyeballs into the crowd.Collison played a big part in the reformed group, especially in regards to higher quality electronic gear and better recording facilities which he brought. Collison started his own record label The Happiest Place On Earth to release the groups recordings. Its name was soon changed to The Happiest Tapes On Earth, in order to avoid potential legal problems which may arise from Disney.The first two full length records were released via their own record label, at first these were only available on cassette format. "Death Cultures" was the first to be released in 1987, and was followed up by "Blood Told In Spine" and then "Assertive Discipline" in successive years. In total the reformed group released seven recordings, "Anesthesia" is the most "well known" of which, this was released on the more professional German label Dark Vinyl Records.Premature Ejaculation, although not always Williams' most well known project of the 1990s, remained active in some form or another right up until his death in 1998, with the last record by the group, "Wound of Exit", been released posthumously.