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ORIGINAL FLAVOUR 7" Single (1998) Hollow Planet.

A seven inch record was released in 1998 on Jowe Head's own record Label "Hollow Planet". It contained four tracks - Not a Song, Sylvester Road, Cream of the Crop and Big Chunks and was limited to 300 hand numbered copies. The cover was a pastiche of the old BIRDS EYE CUSTARD packaging which folded out with a bizarre photo covered with scribbled chords, tracks and lyrics. The vinyl was the thickest ever seen!

This single is long gone, but crops up on e.bay from time to time.

a 1998 flyer for the 7" single.

It Don't Come Right To Me. Beat Bedsit Records BB5001 (2001) Includes Necktie.

A benefit CD for the Cowley Club, the new autonomous social centre in Brighton. 73 minutes long. Olive's Hairy Custard supplied the excellent "Necktie" - one of their best and poppiest songs. The CD also features Anal Beard, Article 9, Abest, Barnstormer, The Blue Minkies, The Bus Station Loonies, Cleatus, Combat Shock, Communal Spices, Falling with Style, Fastard, Kismet HC, Los Destructos, M.T.A., Olive's Hairy Custard, Pog, Profane, Project Adorno, Rancid Hell Spawn, Sawn Off, Steve Lake, Vehicle Derek, The Visitors, Wat Tyler, We Am Janet, Worm, and Zemezluc. We haven't heard the compilation and can't find any more info about it! (can you help?)

This CD is highly recommended and can still be purchased from windlessair music.

Falling Uphill. Compilation CD from Windless Air Records. (2004) Includes Whippersnapper.

"The finest indie-rock from around the world" Lovingly produced and exhaustively compiled in a limited edition CD, FALLING UPHILL features previously unreleased songs by the Television Personalities, Jowe Head, Barbara Manning & The Go-Luckys!, Woog Riots, Katze, The Long Decline, Angel Racing Food, Sixtynine And The Continuous People, Aunt Wayne, Milton Fisher, Olive's Hairy Custard, and The Container Drivers, along with super indie/pop/punk songs from the Baskervilles, The Big Empty, Swedish Whistler, Amanda By Night, The Bartlebees, Rockformation Diskokugel, Summer Factory and more!
This is an excellent compilation and a real treat for fans of Jowe Head. He is represented by his solo track "Serpentine" which is amazing, his new band "Angel Racing Food" have an excellent track and he plays on both the Television Personalities and Long Decline songs.
Olive's hairy Custard have an exclusive track on the CD - it's called "Whippersnappers" and it is a snarling, ankle biting rocker!

OLIVE'S HAIRY CUSTARD CD album from Topplers Records in co-operation with Hollow Planet (2005)

This is the album recorded at the same time as the first single in 1997. It has lain in Jowe's vaults for the past few years and is released as a whole for the first time. It has been lovingly remastered by Jowe and Les at London's Sonic Bunker and sounds amazing! The artwork is by Jowe with truly bizarre photos by Les Miserable and comes with a 12pp booklet of live photos, showing this very visual band, at the height of their powers!
It contains all the tracks from the rare 7" single. The complete track list is below...

Reviews of the CD can be found here...

NECKTIE
CREAM OF THE CROP
ACTION MAN
BIG CHUNKS
GOOD GUY
KNOW DON'T I
MISTER DARWIN
NOT A SONG
SYLVESTER ROAD
FRINGE DWELLERS
BELLY OF THE BEAST
FLAT BOY SLOB

A classic! Short pop with a hardcore chorus - (Sample mp3)
Spikey guitar abuse
More twisted guitars and strangled vocals - (Sample mp3)
The stand-out track from the 1998 single! - (Sample mp3)
Schitzophrenic musical mood swings... frightening!
More twisting, sinuous guitar - (Sample mp3)
Pop-music de-evolution! Big, swinging chorus!
Wild and crazy song! - (Sample mp3)
A humungous dirge - (Sample mp3)
The ghost of elmore james haunts this track - (Sample mp3)
Slow, sleazy, brooding gem! - (Sample mp3)
An unsettling mantra...

The Olive's Hairy Custard CD is available here and now!

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