DESCRIPTION:
The Apostles fourth 7" single, too toxic for most, and for good reason.

The song 'Rock Against Communism' being lifted almost note for note from Skrewdrivers' 'Smash The I.R.A.'.

The lyrics for that song, and for the song 'Kill Or Cure', lifted from some of the verses from Skrewdrivers' 'Sick Society'.

In September 1974 Andy Martin was admitted to Springfield Psychiatric hospital Tooting, as a compulsory patient, being locked and kept under supervision for 'severe paranoid psychosis with delusions of persecutions, and extreme violent outburst at himself and others, extreme suicidal tendencies'.

Before he was sectioned, there were incidents recorded on police files for petty crime and assault. 'Queer bashing' in Clapham Common was one of the crimes that he was involved in.

Squatting exploits were treated far more harshly by the police.

"Obviously it isn't so bad if you beat up a few benders, but it's unforgivable if you try to get somewhere to live!"

When Andy Martin was a patient on the Willow Ward (a ward where several patients were given E.C.T and never seen again) he was beaten up several times by the night nurses.

The worst beating was from six nurses flooring him and stabbing a fix of liquid largactyl into him keeping him asleep for almost eighteen hours, and not eating for four days.

He left Springfield in March 1975 returned to Clapham, and thought about joining the National Front, but instead of joining, went on two marches. The NF was only a cosmetic allegiance, joining in, rather than being interested in the politics.

He was sharing squats, and being liberally souped up with tuinal, and getting all his personally belongings stolen without realising it.

The thieves in the squat were shortly beaten badly by some suited thugs that had been sold glucose, ground glass and Vim as sulphate...

Andy was re-admitted to Springfield Hospital in May 1975.

The Apostles, with Andy Martin in the line up, were active from 1981, and since then he has been writing, drawing and learning to play musical instruments.

Many of those songs that were written are anti-racist.

In fact militantly anti-racist.

Andy has made no secret in those years about his own sexuality.

He is a homosexual, although a celibate homosexual.

He "resents being a spastic, a queer, physically ugly"

Andy Martin: The openly homophobic homosexual: The openly anti-racist racist.

His words below.

"Dave and I had one of our frequent fall outs and he buggered off to France.

In a fit of pique I persuaded a bunch of lads known as the Hackney Hell Crew to dive into a studio and make a record with me.

I issued this tripe under the of The Apostles although there is really no justification for such errant impertinence, Dave not being involved.

Simon Parrish (known as Ollie) and Martin Ryan were the only pair who ultimately appear on the record and they thought it was fun even though they weren’t especially fond of my music.

The E.P included two tracks specifically designed to prove an assertion I made in print earlier in the year:

I stated the majority of punks were bigots and racists. So I wrote 'Kill Or Cure' (which calls for homosexuals to forcefully submit to aversion therapy or accept the death penalty) and 'Rock Against Communism' (which includes every vile complaint, moan, whine and gripe I could remember my parents making when they told me not to bring 'chinks' or 'niggers' into our house).

I predicted very few punks would express any resentment in response to these numbers.

On the contrary I expected to receive praise and approbation for my courage.

This is precisely what happened! My assertion was vindicated.

The trouble is, many people thought I actually meant what I sung (which is fair enough, after all) and thus rumours spread: The Apostles became a neo-nazi outfit. Yes, that’s me in the swastika T-shirt at the Pied Bull ready to support Skrewdriver at their next concert!

In a sudden attack of conscience, I destroyed most of the records barely a month after their release – I think only sixty copies are in existence.

Ironically, 'Kill Or Cure' and 'Rock Against Communism' are the only tracks on the record performed and recorded with any skill or 'professionalism'.

However, in retrospect, it proved useful for the future of the group that I did embark on this apparently invidious project. The record attracted the interest of John Cato who sang for a group called Admit Your Shit.

John was a personal friend of Colin Jerwood who sang for a group called Conflict. All this was most intriguing to me – I knew nothing about these people and I could not comprehend their interest in our work.

Anyway, as a result, Mortarhate (the record company formed by Conflict) issued our 5th single, 6th single and début album.

It was the first time we were not obliged to finance the pressing and printing of our records. They gave us complete control over what we recorded".

Andy Martin 2016