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The band was ‘formed’ in 1979 as a means of releasing some Swell Maps tracks which were considered too eccentric to go out under that name.Phones was one of the founder members of the Maps, having known the Godfrey brothers since about 1972 and Jowe Head soon after (see Wikipedia and elsewhere for more accurate info.) In 1980 the first PSB 45rpm EP included several tracks which can now be seen and heard on www.Topplers.net alongside reworkings by the Kilmarnock band The NoMen.Phones was by this time a part-time Map, pursuing a career as a Master of Fossils. After a life spent travelling and whacking stones together in such places as Sudan, Congo, Oman, Dubai and the arctic bit of Norway, and after a sequence of odd little coincidences, he made a spontaneous decision to renounce air travel and full-time geology and to re-form the PSB in early January 2008.The words and the music had been bottled up inside for over 25 years, and an explosion of what might be called creativity and inspiration (if it was associated with musical talent) was let forth. A series of songs is currently in progress, and the first 3 have been completed by mid January.An album of some sort is possible, with the working title “May Contain Nuttersâ€. The idea of a highly lucrative contract with EMI or Sony was rejected as being too materialistic and unchallenging. Instead, the band prefers to work with Topplers Records and to use other less formal methods of self-publicity. The ethic of the co-operative is to have fun and to neither make nor lose money.....................
