Right from the start Biting Tongues was always hard work. A rough assemblage of different talents and personalities, fragments of other groups, conflicting interests and absurd gestures, it was naïve, furiously committed and conceptually nightmarish all at the same

The guiding spirit behind those early shows was: 'Never do what's easy: never make it look difficult.' There would be engraving tools and typewriters set up on stage, sheet metal, animal bones and plastic ray guns scattered everywhere: anything that made a noise and might look good. One performance actually began with a tape loop of the audience heckling us at the end of the previous show. Energy levels and commitment for each performance were insanely high.

At one event I read aloud passages from an old handbook on the psychology of advertising then tore out the pages, ripping larger and larger fistfuls of paper from the binding and throwing them into the audience. I remember watching smoke pouring out of the PA system, Graham, Howard and I all hammering in unison on discarded oil cans…

We never played encores because we'd have used everything up by the end of each show. It always had to be new. It always had to be different from what we'd done before.

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www.bitingtongues.com
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http://www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/btonguesbio.html

1980 – 89, 2003, LTMCD 2371, LTM

RROR, heart disease, you can choke like that, reflector, denture beach, dirt for 485, iyahbhoone, 44, aair care, evening state/lock up state, feverhouse pt1, meat mask separatist, compressor, double gold st paul, house of hatchets, everywhere but here (live)

1984-87, 2003 LTMCD 2373, LTM
Evening state/lock up state, 1988 12" AN006, Antler

Troublehand, panorama, meat mask separatist, boss toyota trouble, probate, black jesus, black & white jesus, feverhouse pt 1, feverhouse pt 2, feverhouse pt 3, feverhouse pt 4, feverhouse pt 5, feverhouse pt 6, feverhouse pt 7, feverhouse pt 8, feverhouse pt 9, feverhouse pt 10

1985, LP, FACT105, Factory
Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10

Video, 1985 FACT 105/IKON 10, Factory/Ikon

Film, 1984
16 mm black and white, 50 minutes, directed by Howard Walmsley, written by Ken Hollings, music by Biting Tongues

'The most important feature film to come out of the North West in many years' IKON FCL

1984 LP VIRTUE1, Paragon

First use all the G's, forty four, smash the strategic hamlets,
live it, the toucanostra, doctor restore he sight, dirt for 485, aair care

1981 LP SITU1, Situation Two

Blue traces, dog face, heart disease, or with eyes closed, stabbing soft ice, walkway, coil, RROR, give diamonds/you can’t

Biting tongues recordings are available to order at LTM records