Formed as a 4 piece band in December 1995, with original members Dave and John, it also had Adrian on vocals and Andy on guitar. This line-up lasted 8 months, 3 gigs and one 7 song demo, that no songs have been officially relaeased from. Adrian was then sacked for being a posing hippy bastard and 2 further 5 song demos were recorded with Dave taking over vocal duties. 2 songs (Punch Drunk + Homebrew) from the first of these demos were the bands first release on a split E.P. with other North Yorks (Thirsk) Ska punk legends The Write Offs. Another track from that demo (Legacy) ended up on the excellent No Front Teeth Compilation.3 Songs from the second demo (Dull and Duller, Climax and Why Don't You Just Fuck Off?) were released on the Compilation - Faster Louder Volume 1, which also contained the first released songs by Freaks Union. Andy left soon after this due to having a job in London and not being able to commit himself to the band as much as he would like.The band now recruited Lee from Joe 90 as a temporary guitarist and Aaron form the Write Offs as a permanent singer. This line-up then recorded the 4 songs (Fuck Guttermouth, Ciderpunk Revolution, Fuck 'N' Drink and Force Fed) at Huddersfield College, in about 2 hours, to be released on the You Make Me Sick compilation. Then they recorded 4 songs (Monarchy In The UK, Vics Alright, Ciderpunk Revolution and Servants And Masters) for the Monarchy In The UK E.P.Aaron left the band shortly after that to follow his girlfriend down to Portsmouth and Lee realised he was probably stuck with us, so Dave was back on vocals.Now a 3 piece again, 7 songs were recorded (Pub Crawl, Vermin, Negligence, Room 101, Out Of Spite, Unclefucker and In It For Life) and realeased on the extremely hard to get, Music For The Underprivileged compilation CD.The band now hope to enter the studio to record an album before the end of 2006 and then hopefully have it released some time early in 2007.***** Homebrew Update*****On the 16th and17th December 2006 , Homebrew went into Ric Rac Recording studio in Leeds to record the first 8 songs of our forthcoming album, hopefully released around June 2007. We have to go back on the 30th December to put the backing vocals and final mix of the songs. We have put a rough mix of the song Rock Bottom as a taster but remember this is not the finished song. The other recorded songs were, Psychosematic, Vermin, Homebrew, Seize The Day, Rising Tide, Arsehole and Fuck N' Drink. We hope to record the rest of the album in March/April.This is also the song we are hoping to do a video for in February with ShrimpCreate or get your
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