How did it happen that Bristol's premiere hardcore punk rock band, Chaos UK, formed AD Rice and the Wazzuks a tribute band to Adge Cutler and the Wurzels, the West Country's legendary bumpkin folk comic band?
According to Gabba, Chaos's guitarist until the end, it started with a visit to the dole office back in 1999, where he spotted a Buddha on the desk of the interviewing clerk and figured she might be open to a discussion about alternative music, and she happened to mention she was a friend of Adge Cutler's wife and she was quite surprised to find despite being a hardcore punk band the guys in Chaos were massive fans of the Wurzels... and so it was the band were given the opportunity to explore the potential of becoming a professional Wurzel tribute, with the blessing of the dole office.
Training commenced straight away on drinking plenty of scrumpy and studying the work of the late great Adge Cutler, this was acheived by Gabba swapping his original Vivian Westwoods Seditionaries Destroy swastika cheese cloth shirt for the complete Adge Cutler collection on vinyl with Rikki from Red Flag 77, until the band agreed on a mission to raise awarenness Adge's work and hopefully in the process encourage EMI to release all of his vinyl recordings on CD format.
So it was, in the years 2000 and 2001 the Wazzuks toured venues around the West Country and even up to "Burnigum" singing about the joys of drinking cider and "other" West Country pastimes, before dissapearing into the stuff of legend, gone but not forgotten.
Wassail
Gabba & Steve the Wurzel
Live CD and DVD Video of the Wazzuks SOLD OUT (awaiting new batch, come back laterz).
