In the early 1980s, English band the insane picnic (always printed in lower case) were one of the pioneering D.I.Y. cassette bands, comprised of members Peter Ashby , Barry Lamb and Owen Turley. They recorded several releases for the English independent record label Falling A Records. As well as regularly appearing in many fanzines they were also often featured in the mainstream music papers with favourable reviews in Melody Maker, Sounds & NME, also featuring on several occasions in the Sounds Obscurist chart and Psychedelic chart and were favourites of pirate radio stations "Liverpool City radio" & "Andromeda". Insane Picnic Copyright Dynamite Vision File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Cassette culture was an offshoot of the mail art movement of the 1970s and 1980s. ... Peter Ashby is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer who has been a member of several groups whilst also releasing solo material including much experimental music. ... Barry Lamb is a recently re-emerging experimental music artist who did most of his work in the 1980s. ... Falling A Records was a very important Essex, England based Independent record label formed in the late 1970`s, and heavily involved with the D.I.Y cassette movement of the early 1980s. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia Science of Music... Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was (until its closure) the worlds oldest weekly music newspaper. ... Not the National Military Establishment (United States Department of Defense). ... Sounds was a weekly UK music paper in which the Obscurist Chart was one of many music charts available as an alternative to the main sales driven record charts allowing a place for bands and music outside of the mainstream to be recognised. ... The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for mind, ψυχη (psyche), and manifest, δηλειν (delein). ... The term pirate radio lacks a specific universal interpretation. ... Liverpool City radio was a pirate radio station broadcasting from Liverpool in the 1980s. ... Paul Gustave Doré painted Andromeda exposed to the sea-monster, nude, as she is depicted in the story. ...

Discography

• four days in april — 1981, cassette-only EP (Falling A, catalogue number EBS3)

• four days in april — 2004, CD reissue (Falling A, catalogue number EBSCD1)

• "Romance"/"Politician's Promise" — 1983, cassette-only single (Falling A, catalogue number EBS5)

• Magistrates and Saints — 1986, 12" vinyl ep (Falling A/Waterfall, catalogue number waterfall 2)

• this is the winter darkness — 2004, CD album (Falling A, catalogue number FASA1; recorded in 1985 and originally intended for vinyl release, it remained unreleased until the 2004 CD issue)

Falling A Records was a very important English Independent record label formed in the late 1970`s, and heavily involved with the D.I.Y cassette movement of the early 1980s. ...

See also

• Cassette culture