DESCRIPTION:
Null And Void were a band from around the Yeovil area formed in 1980. Closely aligned to Yeovil’s other band at the time, The Mob, the original members of Null And Void were Mark Hedge, Adie Tompkins and Andrew Barker.

Barker had already previously released a record on the All The Madmen record label under the name Andy Stratton, along with The Mob’s then drummer Graham Fallows.

Both The Mob and Null And Void members lived together in a shared commune in Seend a village in Wiltshire.

Adie Tompkins would eventually perform drumming duties for The Mob for a short time after Graham decided to leave that band.

Eventually most of The Mob and Null And Void members decided to leave the sticks and chance squatting in London. Brougham Road in Hackney was the area where the bands shared bus ended up and parked up. Zounds, a close ally to both bands on the newly arrived bus had secured some property in that street a few months previously.

This demo cassette uploaded today were recorded and engineered by Pete Fender at the Xntrix studio situated in the basement of the Poison Girls house in Leytonstone.

The band by the time of recordings had a new drummer in Josef Porta who had been staying in Brougham Road with the other members of Zounds.

Josef of course later joined The Mob, and continues to perform today with Blyth Power. Delia supplied some backing vocals and Pete Nothing added a couple of poems on the sessions that would be released on the cassette.

Pete Nothing was not Pete Fender incidentally in case anyone wondered…

For the download and other information please open up the KYPP link below.

http://killyourpetpuppy.co.uk/news/null-and-void-not-so-brave-records-xntrix-cassettes-1982/

This demo cassette contains absolutely wonderful material by Null And Void, material which still sounds incredibly strong today.

Thoughts of Pete Fender:

"I always loved this band, recording them was a joy as the material was so immediate and uplifting, not to mention them being a great bunch of people. I knew Josef already from his work with Zounds and not only were they pretty stoked to have got him for the session, straight away I knew we were going to have no trouble with the drum sound. I seem to remember bumping into Mark Hedge at Stonehenge 1981 (or was it 82?) and spending much of the festival in his company. Andy Barker shared a house in Cross Street with my sister Gemma (Rubella Ballet) and some other people for a time, including Andy Palmer (Crass). I used to listen to this demo all the time back then and I was extremely chuffed when they came back to do their 7" single with me. Great stuff"

After a couple of tours in Belgium with The Mob and Zounds, Null And Void were approached by Not So Brave Records who were based in Belgium. The band recorded the sessions, again with Pete Fender at Xntrix, that would end up as the only 7″ single that was released in the band’s lifetime.

The sleeve artwork for the single was completed by Dave Williams who was the brother of Steve Ignorant, vocalist for Crass (a fact that Dave did not like being made public to many folk in those days as the two siblings did not get on that well supposedly, according to a member of Null And Void!)