Clam Abuse was the title of a collaborative side project of Ginger

Ginger (singer)

Ginger is a rock guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known for his band The Wildhearts.-Early career:...

, of Wildhearts

The Wildhearts

The Wildhearts are a British rock group originally formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The band's sound is a mixture of hard rock and melodic pop music, often described in the music press as combining influences as diverse as The Beatles and 1980s-era Metallica...

, and Alex Kane, of Life, Sex & Death

Life, Sex & Death

Life Sex & Death was a hard rock band that achieved minor success in the early 1990s.They released one major label album in 1992 called The Silent Majority. Two of their songs appeared on the Beavis & Butthead TV Show, Tank and School's For Fools...

. The band also featured Prodigy

The Prodigy

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 live-drummer Kieron Pepper.

Ginger and Kane, who assumed the alter ego

Alter ego

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s of 'Clam Savage' and 'Clint Abuse' respectively for the project, are said to have met and formed the band whilst on drug rehabilitation

Drug rehabilitation

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 ("the bucket"). Their collaboration yielded only one album, entitled Stop Thinking (1999; re-issued 2003 and 2005), which included a cover

Cover version

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 of The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career. The series originally ran from September 25, 1970 until August 31, 1974, the last new episode airing on March 23, 1974, on the ABC network, as part of a Friday-night lineup...

's "I Think I Love You".

In an interview Ginger stressed that the only reason he and Kane formed was because he had filed for bankruptcy in the United States

United States

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 after "pissing it away on drinks and drugs", and made an album to take back to the UK, supporting it with a tour to make money. He had no idea that the tour, and the band, would be so popular.

Kane went on to form his own band, AntiProduct

AntiProduct

AntiProduct are a UK-based glam punk band, fronted by Alex Kane, formerly of Clam Abuse, Enuff Z'nuff, Holland, and Life, Sex & Death.The band formed in 2000, and have played alongside acts such as Rachel Stamp, The Wildhearts, Ginger, The Quireboys, Enuff Z'Nuff, Electric Eel Shock, Tyla from...

, in the UK.

Discography

Stop Thinking (1999)
Tracklisting

1. "Sing Like A Girl"
2. "I Think I Love You"
3. "Message To Geri"
4. "Unlucky In Love"
5. ".com Together"
6. "Falling In Bed With You Again"
7. "Sunday Driving On A Thursday Afternoon"
8. "For That Girl Everything Is Groovy"
9. "Barney Sings The Blues"
10. "She's So Taboo"
11. "There's Always Someone More Fucked Up Than You"

Bonus-tracks (not all editions)

1. "I Think I Love You" [Remix]
2. "Message To Geri" [Remix]
3. "She's So Taboo" [Remix]