Peter and the Test Tube Babies are a punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band that was formed in the small town of Peacehaven

Peacehaven

Peacehaven is a town and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England. It is located above the chalk cliffs of the South Downs approximately six miles east of Brighton city centre, on the A259 road...

, England

England

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 in 1978 by Del Strangefish and Peter Bywaters. Due to their humorous tongue-in-cheek lyrics, they have been considered part of the Punk Pathetique

Punk Pathetique

Punk pathetique is a subgenre of British punk rock that involved humour and working class cultural themes....

 subgenre. Peter and the Test Tube Babies were first featured in Sounds

Sounds (magazine)

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magazine in July 1980, and after a John Peel

John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...

 Radio One

BBC Radio 1

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 session, made their vinyl debut on the Brighton compilation album Vaultage 78. They also had two songs on the seminal Oi! compilation Oi! the Album in that same year. They favoured absurd lyrics and strange titles, such as "The Queen Gives Good Blow Jobs." In 1982, they covered the chart-topping Gary Glitter

Gary Glitter

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 hit "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" on their album Pissed and Proud

Pissed and Proud

Pissed and Proud is an album of live recordings by English punk rock band, Peter and the Test Tube Babies. It was originally released in 1982 on No Future Records and was recorded at three different venues – Hammersmith, Wood Green, and their hometown, Brighton – during the August bank...

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When the band is not touring, Peter Bywaters offers personal English as a second language tuition on a live-in basis at his home in Brighton

Brighton

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They have continued performing into the 2000s. Their polished, professional live show is in contrast to the non-serious nature of their lyrics.

Original Line Up

• Vocals - Peter Bywaters
• Guitar - Del Strangefish
• Bass Guitar - Trapper
• Drums - Trevor Rutherford
• Guitar - Mal Clear

Albums

• Pissed and Proud
  Pissed and Proud
  Pissed and Proud is an album of live recordings by English punk rock band, Peter and the Test Tube Babies. It was originally released in 1982 on No Future Records and was recorded at three different venues – Hammersmith, Wood Green, and their hometown, Brighton – during the August bank...
  
  , 1982
• Mating Sounds of South American Frogs, 1983
• The Loud Blaring Punk Rock Album, 1984
• Journey to the Centre of Johnny Clarke's Head, 1984
• Soberphobia, 1986
• Live and Loud!! - More Chin Shouting, 1990
• The $hit Factory, 1990
• Cringe, 1991
• Supermodels, 1995
• Schwein Lake Live, 1996
• Alien Pubduction, 1998
• A Foot Full of Bullets, 2005

EPs and singles

• Banned From The Pubs, 1982
• Run Like Hell, 1982
• 3 x 45, 1983
• The Jinx, 1983
• Zombie Creeping Flesh
  The Punk Singles Collection
  The Punk Singles Collection was a compilation album released in 1995 by Anagram Records. It contained material recorded between 1980 and 1985 by the English punk rock band, Peter and the Test Tube Babies....
  
  , 1983
• Pressed for Ca$h EP
  The Punk Singles Collection
  The Punk Singles Collection was a compilation album released in 1995 by Anagram Records. It contained material recorded between 1980 and 1985 by the English punk rock band, Peter and the Test Tube Babies....
  
  , 1984
• Rotting in the Fart Sack EP
  The Punk Singles Collection
  The Punk Singles Collection was a compilation album released in 1995 by Anagram Records. It contained material recorded between 1980 and 1985 by the English punk rock band, Peter and the Test Tube Babies....
  
  , 1985
• Key To The City, 1986
• Fuck The Millennium, 2000

Compilations

• The Best of Peter and the Test Tube Babies, 1988
• Test Tube Trash, 1994
• The Punk Singles Collection
  The Punk Singles Collection
  The Punk Singles Collection was a compilation album released in 1995 by Anagram Records. It contained material recorded between 1980 and 1985 by the English punk rock band, Peter and the Test Tube Babies....
  
  , 1995
• Punk and Disorderly, 1982

External links

• Official Homepage
• Discography