Icon AD - Don't Feed Us Shit

ICON AD - DON'T FEED US SHIT

Of the bands featured on the original Bullshit Detector LP, a number of them were still very much active. Some, such as Amebix, The Sinyx, The Disrupters, and The Snipers had already gone on to have singles released whilst others such as Alternative and Andy T were continuing to play regular concerts. One band by the name of Icon, whose incredibly catchy song called Cancer had been one of the highlights of Bullshit Detector were only now - two years later - having their début single released.

Having undergone a slight change in personnel over the intervening years along with a slight change in band name to reflect this, the Don't Feed Us Shit EP by Icon AD was issued by Norwich-based Radical Change Records. Semi-wrapped in an A4-sized scrap of paper acting as a record sleeve, proudly boasting the Crass-style command 'Pay No More', this was DIY in its most purest form.

The four songs on the record were brilliant examples of politicised Pop Punk, ably supported by intriguing sleeve notes: 'The government has messed itself up so much that it is now losing the support of the people. Take a look at any election result - ok, in this so-called 'democracy' a Party always wins, but forget that - look at the percentage of people who don't vote. In most cases there is a larger proportion of people who don't vote than who vote for the winning Party - why aren't these people's voices heard? Why? Because if they were recognised, then by the 'rules' of democracy this country would now have no government... Don't feed us shit'.

Icon AD's début record would earn them the honour of being invited to record a radio session for the John Peel show which wasn't bad going for a band first introduced to the world on an LP deemed by the NME as 'ill-conceived' and 'excruciating', and by others as being possibly 'the worst record in the world ever'....