5 'A' Sided 45
Rather Records Gear Two 1978
Produced, arranged and played by Steve Treatment with (thinly disguised) members of Swell maps! Engineered by Mike Kemp. Sleeve by Epic Soundtracks Photograph by Nikki Sudden. Hand written inner sleeve listing Steve's favourite bands, adverts for Swell Maps etc! Every copy with the inner bag is different , some written by Steve others by the Maps. Some contained a competition slip as well. "Bolan was Stolen" engraved into vinyl run-out!
This is the one that Steve is best known for and it is an all time classic. Every song is a gem. Great sound - echoes everywhere and backwards guitars - you just feel how good a time they had recording it. The patter between songs and the general ambience makes this stand head and shoulders above it's contemporaries. This really rocks and the Bolanesque "Negative Nights" with Christine Isherwood's backing vocals is a classic!

• HOOKED ON A TREND
• DANGER ZONE
• NEGATIVE NIGHTS
• TASTE YOUR OWN MEDICINE
• THE HIPPY POSED ENGROSSMENT

Steve Treatment - Guitar & Vocal. Edrun Kubelwagon - Guitar. Matilda Tank - Bass & Back Vocals. Apphibious Landing Craft - Drums. RJ Half Track - Guitar. Chris & Chris - Back Vocal & Tambourine

Double A side
BACKBONE RECORDS ZBHIT1
Produced and arranged by Steve Treatment. Engineered by Doug. Recorded 5th Feb 1979
Photocopied and folded sleeve.
Only TWO songs this time! Both great. "Worn out shoe" is classic Steve Treatment and "Heaven Knows" with its piano based sound is like later T Rex only better!

• HEAVEN KNOWS (Juvenile Wrecks)
• STEP INSIDE A WORN OUT SHOE

  Steve Treatment - Vocal, Guitar, Piano. Nick Welsh - Bass, Guitar, Drums, Backing Vocal. Tara Gordon - Drums, Mouth Pops, Backing Vocal

Steve Treatment & the Zodiac Fassions
BACKBONE RECORDS ZBHIT2
Produced & Arranged by ST. Recorded 1st February & July 26th 1979

Photocopied cover stapled to white sleeve. Photocopied A4 poster. "For further information just do your own thing!"

5 songs again... "Change of Plan" is a POP classic. But so are the rest. Sloppy playing (in a good way!) more trademark backwards guitar, Bolanesque phrasing, grunts and sighs galore! Too good to be true in fact!

• CHANGE OF PLAN
• HEAD OF A RAVEN
• CHOSEN TO GO
• TEMPEST FASHION BABY
• CRY IN ALPHABET SHARP

  Steve Treatment - Guitar & Vocal. Nick Welsh - Bass, Guitar, B Voc. Tara Gordon - Drums, B Voc. Mark Hayward - Guitar, B Voc. Richard Welsh - Drums, B Voc. Christine Isherwood - Breathing

Steve Treatment & the NoMen
2005 "A" Sided 45
TOPPLERS RECORDS Top Ten 003
Produced and arranged by Steve and the NoMen
Recorded August/Sept 2005 at Topplers Home Studio and Steve's basement flat.

21" x 14" fold-out glossy sleeve. Black & White label "For more information, stare at the wall!"

5 songs again!!! (well, six if you count the bonus track!) Has Steve mellowed with age? NO! This is still vibrant DIY punk-pop... The NoMen are the tightest band Steve has played with since the Swell Maps! Tracks range from short-sharp jabs in the eye to dreamy psychedelic trips. Available NOW!

• VANISH
• THE TREATMENT
• DON'T DO IT
• ECHO IN THE BACKSTREET
• THE TEA WENT COLD
• AARGH

  Steve Treatment - Guitar & Vocal. George, Cal, Allan, Brian and Billy NoMen play guitars, drums, organs etc and sing. Lana WoMan adds vocals to 'Echo'

WIRE 272 October 2006
Wow. How pleasant it is to know that Steve Treatment is still out there and recording.
His new one is a corker. With his mates, The Nomen, Mr Treatment shows he still has a strange and appealing handle on leftfield basement pop, although he seems a bit less relient on Marc Bolan as a spirit guide. Anyway, this is a great bowl of weevil from one of England's originals.
NICK CAIN

Clear Vision of Grandeur CD
Topplers Value TV001 2005.
12pp booklet with information and interviews with Steve Treatment and the NoMen.

A compilation of many of the limited edition CDR and web only releases on Topplers.
All tracks have been remixed, re-edited or re-recorded. Some unreleased tracks are included as well such as a completely different version of Vanish from the 2005 single and the first release of the WoMen versions of two of Steve's songs with female vocals.

The ever popular Christmas singles are remixed for the CD and there is a brand new Xmas song where Steve updates 'The Hippy Posed Engrosement' from his first single into a seasonal offering!

Available NOW!

• THE TREATMENT
• CARVE YOUR NAME UPON MY BACK
• LETTER TO THE WORLD
• BOY OF 14
• FAST WRIST
• GENUINE MURDERER
• THE KEYS TO TALGARTH ROAD
• GO AWAY
• NEGATIVE NIGHTS
• THE HANGMAN
• VANISH
• CHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER (parts 1 & 2)
• TAKE A FIX FOR CHRISTMAS
• SANTA POSED ENGROSEMENT!

CARVE MY NAME UPON YOUR BACK.
LETTER TO THE WORLD.
BOY OF 14.
MANUFACTURED PAIN.
USING THE LORD AS A WEAPON.

CD contained nine extra tracks of alternate versions, original versions and mixes!

Steve Treatment - Guitar & Vocals. The NoMen - music

PICKED APART ON TAPE TOP008
Steve's acoustic versions of his new songs -
a thrilling alternative to the forthcoming album -
spliced together and embellished by the NoMen.
Genuinely inspired!

Shows the lunacy and genius of Steve's songs in a fresh light. These were really demos sent to Topplers records but were so good we released them as a limited edition collection.

GENUINE MURDERER.
I WISH ALL MY NEIGHBOURS WERE DEAD.
WHO WEARS THE PANTS?
VANISH! etc (16 tracks)

Steve Treatment - Acoustic Guitar & Vocal. The NoMen - music

LANDY PARTY
There are a series of home made "landy party" recordings on FORK Records which feature Steve as part of a loose group of musicians doing bizarre covers and experimental sounds.
Mostly live recordings of the occasional gigs they do.
Released on CDR.

Probably better if you were at the gigs!

FORK 1 Pastry Express - Westbourne Sessions
FORK 2 Pastry Express - Live at the Paradise Bar
FORK 3 THE EEC - The EEC
FORK 4 LANDY - Landy Ahoy!
FORK 5 Recorded "Live" at a LANDY PARTY!

THE KEYS TO TALGARTH ROAD TOP006The NoMen's first collaboration with Steve Treatment.
They're all Steve's songs (the title track written specially for the band and another being Steve's lyrics which he'd never written music for with NoMen music).
Steve contributes some inter-song chat taken from messages left on the NoMen's answering machine!

KEYS TO TALGARTH RD.
CARVE MY NAME.
THE HANGMAN.
ECHO IN THE BACKSTREET. Etc (11 tracks)

Some remixed versions are available on the 2005 compilation CD.

Look out for a bizarre "rap" Steve does on a NoMen collaboration with Jowe Head (ex Swell Maps and now performing with 'Angel racing Food')

Boxing Day MP3

25 "A" Sided CD HYPED 2 DEATH records from the USA release CDR compilations of obscure British and American bands. Steve is represented on the album "MESSTHETICS#3"

They also have a double CD of ALL the tracks Steve has recorded from his first three singles right up to his new recordings with Topplers. These are the tracks that Steve let the NoMen pick through for the "Keys to Talgarth Road" and range from punky bedroom recordings with Nikki Sudden to studio recordings with the Ticket Inspectors.

CHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER Steve Treatment & the NoMen TOP009

Classic Xmas single available as a free download on the website and as an extended CDEP.

XMAS IN OCTOBER
GENUINE MURDERER (extended Krautrock trip)
XMAS MESSAGE
PLUS ORIGINAL ACOUSTIC VERSIONS

Messthetics #3 [H2D #25] UK DIY singles & LP tracks Ti-to-U: 1978-82. 26 songs from 21 bands: Tronics, Tiny Town, Steve Treatment, Trwynau Coch, Thermometers, 23 Skidoo, Trance, Thought Police, Twelve Cubic Feet, Tronics, The Turn, Vandells, Vacants, Trwynau Coch, Hugh Volk, Vdus, Tiny Town, U.X.B., Treatment, UK Decay, Toys, Two Fingered Approach, Steve Treatment, They Must Be Russians, U-Turn. $9.00

www.hyped2death.com

The 'O'Level were a spin off from the Television Personalities [basically Ed Ball, I think] whos debut 4 track EP contained "Revolver" who's lyrics included the middle 8 - "I stayed at home and the Swell Maps and Steve Treatment came round... and so did the TVPs. It was very DIY!" Sadly, at the time of recording such an evening had never occured but Nikki Sudden of Swell Maps tried to cajole Steve into going round to 'O' levels house to fulfill the prophecy!!! Steve declined but met up with them later on in life! He was not involved on the record!
Neither was he involved with Scritti Politti's "4 A sides" 12" record who's title was a homage to his own first EP - though he did give a 'thank-you' to the band on 'Heaven Knows".

TAKE A FIX FOR CHRISTMAS !
Steve Treatment & the NoMen (2004 web download)
Spacey guitars and a gentler sound than the previous Xmas single.
A version of this is available on the 2005 compilation

ALTERNATIVE TELEVISION
Action Time & Vision (1978)
Steve adds to the backing chorus!???
(unconfirmed rumour, probably not on the record, possibly at a live show)

THE JEALOUS LOVERS

On a related subject and in contrast to Steve's ramshackle, electric energy you may be interested in an album by "The Jealous Lovers" a band formed by Christine Isherwood , the backing vocalist on most of Steve's recordings.
This is an album of moody, acoustic songs recorded "live" in the studio and we have and a track on the list!
Terry Koivunen used to play in a latter day version of the 'Au Pairs', and Christine used to be in 'A Popular History of Signs' and loads of other bands, some good, some not so good. Her brother Martin will be famous forever as the songwriter for the 2003 British entry for "A Song for Europe'. His song was called 'Crybaby', it was performed by Jemini and it recieved "Nil Point!!!" OUCH!!!