Venom P Stinger offered an indifferent Australia unwanted acres of tricksy, lurching, tempo-shifting, art rock sea-shanties, doubtless as difficult for the band to play as they were for the merely curious to tolerate.
The guitarist Mick Turner and the drummer Jim White went on to supply tastefully distressed licks and off-beat percussive flourishes to Warren Ellis’ post-rock gypsy fiddle trio The Dirty Three, but here’s a complete document of the five years they spent turning spit-flecked rock filth into free punk noise silver.
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