Poison Girls - Persons Unknown

Poison Girls
Persons Unknown

Single UK 2015 on All The Madmen Records label
Rock and Classical (Punk, Avant-garde)

A: Recorded at Southern Studios on 9th and 16th Feb 1980 B: Recorded at Southern Studios 1982 Poison Girls - Persons Unknown / Statement (Orchestral) 12” Heavyweight Vinyl in full colour sleeve with insert and folded A2 poster Poison Girls’ legendary, brooding call to action for the radical and dispossessed gets a 35-year anniversary, deluxe vinyl edition on The Mob’s All The Madmen Records, backed with the sublime orchestral version of “Statement”. Continuing Poison Girls' ongoing vinyl re-release series. In full collaboration with Poison Girls, coordinated by Pete Fender with artwork design and layout by Bernhardt Rebours. Now on 12” vinyl in their full durations of over 7 minutes and 5 minutes respectively, both tracks are given space to breathe and be heard in their best vinyl form. The 180g heavyweight vinyl presents as a more deluxe, durable medium and a two-sided insert details the background, lyrics and ongoing relevance of the songs. An enclosed A2 sized (42.0 x 59.4cm) , folded poster graphically reproduces the set of forty eight 1-inch button/pin badges that Poison Girls produced and distributed in 1980 to promote and reinforce the Persons Unknown declaration. Using words from the song, each badge identifies a social (mis)fit - joined lyrically as one in the full set. The badges have been carefully recreated and are made available in hand-pressed sets, via All The Madmen Records. Poison Girls - Persons Unknown Inspired by the 1979 UK High Court trial (and subsequent acquittal) of members of the Anarchist Black Cross group for “conspiring with persons unknown at places unknown to cause explosions and overthrow society”. There were no explosions. Some of that group set about forming an “Anarchist Centre” and in a joint release with Crass’ Bloody Revolutions, Persons Unknown financed the opening in 1980 of London’s Wapping Warf Autonomy Centre. Just as the Anarchist Black Cross were synonymous with the campaign for political freedom throughout the 20th Century, the split 7” release became a cornerstone of the Anarchist Punk counterculture. The rhetoric of Persons Unknown remains a commentary valid as ever today with continued use of Joint Enterprise doctrine in “guilty by association” trials of those remotely associated with insurrection. See the recently attempted prosecution of social segregation “poor doors” and anti-gentrification “cereal killers” protestors in London. Poison Girls - Statement First released in its original form as a flexi-disc with the Chappaquiddick Bridge album and here reworked for Pax Records’ 1982 anti-war compilation “Wargasm”; featuring the National Youth Orchestra and Jason Osborn adding their classical staccato to underpin Vi Subversa’s impassioned curse to the system and its warlords. http://www.allthemadmen.co.uk/collections/poison-girls http://www.poisongirls.co.uk/ http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/1jwtjw http://www.christiebooks.com/ChristieBooksWP/tag/persons-unknown/ http://uncarved.org/music/apunk/autcent.html

Musicians

	Poison Girls , 1976-1987 GB design, written by, album by
	Bernhardt Rebours b, bass, vocals
	Lance D'Boyle dr, drums, vocals
	Richard Famous g, guitar, vocals, guitar, bass
	Vi Subversa voc, g, 1935-2016 GB vocals, guitar
	Jason Osborn , conductor, producer
	National Youth Orchestra Of Great Britain , orchestra
	Barney Unwin , score