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Regarded by many as the Fearties masterpiece! This album was recoorded in Brockwellmuir barn (where Tasty Heidfu' was recorded), Dunlop Public Hall (referred to as Dunlop Public Hell in the NME gig guide!!) and at Shabby Road Studio in Kilmarnock.
The album contains many of the best songs the band ever wrote and a selection of fine instumentals that showed that Nyah Fearties weren't just about the mayhen and anarchy of their live shows - they actually were fantastic, original musicians.

Desperation o' a Dyin Culture was probably one of the most extreme DIY products of the post-punk era. So many bands had brought out their singles with hand stamped white labels and photocopied sleeves but the Fearties took it a stage further...
The white label LPs had a home made stamp designed by Tam McGibbon, who did the artwork for the first LP and later on for Granpa Craw, stamped in either red or black.

The sleeve was a recycleable polythene bag bought from a food store supplier in a horrible shade of pale green! Davy and Stephen had met up with Allan, the bass player in a local band called The Topplers who had done a series of gigs with the Fearties. He knew how to draw so was roped into designing a sleeve for the album. The idea was to do a striking image of a thistle framed with some pseudo-Celtic knotwork and spray paint it with stencils onto the polythene bags! The stencil was cut and sprayed onto paper - it looked greatt!!! Some CFC-free spray cans were purchased and Stephen Feartie's flat in Galston was turned into Andy Warhol's Factory as a host of volunteers layed the bags out on the floor and sprayed them in ever increasingly psychedelic colours! After a couple of hours the walls of the room were bright pink (and so, no doubt, were the spray painters lungs!) but the bags looked lovely! Someone then suggested that the records looked dull in comparison and started spray painting the labels! This had to be nipped in the bud as the spray was getting all over the vinyl making the records unplayable!!!


High on fumes, the band then ventured outside to spray Galston's phone boxes and bus shelters with the Fearties artwork and even the local drunk got the album sleeve sprayed onto the back of his jacket!
It wasn't until the next day when the albums were inserted into the bags that the problem emerged... the paint cracked and fell off the bags as soon as it bent. All the bands hard work ended up flaked on the floor!

There were about 100 LPs spray painted and sold at the launch night at the Art Halls in Kilmarnock, the rest were packaged in an unmarked brown paper bag!
The DIY efforts didn't end there... an eight page A5 booklet was flung together by Davy, Stephen and Allan using pictures found in magazines, hand written lyrics and drawings done by Allan. The offices of a friend who worked with Woman's Aid were used to photocopy the booklet - once again on a nasty shade of green recycled paper! (click the images below to see full size)

As if this wasn't enough, the Fearties then decided that some badges would be a good idea and Allan carved some stamps from rubbers, printed them on coloured card, laminated them with selotape and stuck a safety pin on the back with masking tape! Instant badges!

It is very unlikely that anyone has a copy of the album in mint condition these days! These photos are from Allan's own record... What was left of the spray painted sleeve was cut out and stuck onto a piece of cardboard! A good selection of tracks from the album were preserved on the 'SKUD' CD.