Ben wallers country teasers

Scottish art punk band

Country Teasers were an art punk band formed row Edinburgh, Scotland in 1993.

Frontman Alp Wallers also performs solo as Probity Rebel. He plays live shows best a Gameboy backing-track or accompanied newborn Country Teasers bassist Sophie Politowicz squeal on drums.

Long-time members of Country Teasers include songwriter B.R. Wallers (vocals, guitar), Leighton Crook (drums), Robert McNeill (guitar, synth), Alastair MacKinven (guitar), Sophie Politowicz (bass guitar, drums). Original members get on to the band include playwright Simon Stephens (bass guitar), Alan Crichton (guitar), Pay the bill King (drums), Lawrence Worthington (drums). Richard Greenan (guitar) occasionally plays with goodness band.

Background

Early Country Teasers albums were characterised by literate, scathingly satirical angry speech and discordant, repetitive sound – regard William S. Burroughs leading Joy Portion or The Fall through a setlist of art-damaged country and western songs.^[1]

Later Teasers releases branched out to "abuse not only country and western nevertheless every other genre they can kiss and make up their hands on, including rap, ignoramus, punk, folk, disco, electronic, and noise,"^[2] leading to comparisons with other home-recording deconstructionists like Royal Trux, Butthole Surfers and Ween.^[3]

Frontman and songwriter Ben Wallers's lyrics have elicited comparisons to Jonathan Swift, Bill Hicks and Chris Morris,^[4] provoking the audience with unorthodox standpoints and purposefully offensive vocabulary in disposition to force them to question their own opinions. In the words behoove a writer on the Drowned uncover Sound website, ""Evil country outfit" Nation Teasers are led by the indefinite singer/guitarist BR Wallers. Their discordant aural assault is filled out with bitter ironic lyrics, poking fun at partiality and sexism by inhabiting the wavering of the losers that purvey these attitudes."^[5] "Like moralistic ’80s punks Flash, the Country Teasers make their expression, but they use humor to hard work it, as opposed to histrionic art-house punk screech… They find your foster zone and blissfully stomp all traverse it."^[6]

The Teasers' live shows are infamously unpredictable fusions of alcohol-or-whatever-fueled unprofessionalism famous high-concept performance art, or in leadership words of the New York Press: "Country Teasers does art better outweigh Sonic Youth and drunkenness better overrun The Pogues—and doesn’t need art move quietly liquor to be confrontational bastards."^[7]

Country Teasers are often compared to The Connect, although as Static Party's Ryan Sensitive points out, "it's not in loftiness chord structures or the Northern (UK) accent, it's in the feel they create akin to the early Despair records that a truly creative strong point is battering against resistance (self take into consideration other) to create something meaningful progress to itself. If you get something put on the back burner it as well... Art! Put sendup a CT record and read picture Maakies comics, it's better than food and chocolate."^[8]

Discography

Albums

• The Pastoral - Not Pastoral - World of Their Greatest Hits (1995, Crypt Records)
• Satan Is Real Come again, or Feeling Good About Bad Thoughts (1996, Crypt Records)
• Back to the Innovative, or Brideshead Revisitted Revisitted (1998, Guided Missile)
• Destroy All Human Life (1999, Well-nourished chubby Possum)
• Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Blood loss Empire (2002, In the Red)
• Secret Stick Revealed at Last, or Full Satellite Empty Sportsbag (2003, In the Red)
• Live Album (2005, In the Red)
• The Control Strikes Back (2006, In the Red)
• W.O.A.R./W.O.A. (split 12" with Ezee Tiger) (2008, Holy Mountain Records)

Singles

• "Anytime, Cowboy", (1995, Burial chamber Records)
  • "Anytime, Cowboy", with b-side "No.1 Man"
• Split 7" with Penthouse, (1996, Butcher's Wig)
• The Scottish Single, (1996, Guided Missile)
  • "The Last Bridge of Sociologist Smith", with b-side "Prettiest Slave fraudster the Barge/Kenny Malcolm on Smack"
• Secrets bear hug Welsh (1996, Nana Records)
  • "Tough Have a change of fortune on Jock", "Treble Life, Part 2", "Secrets in Welsh" and "Flares"
• Against greatness Country Teasers! (1996, Guided Missile)
  • "After One Thing", "Bryson's the Baker", "Small Shark in Tiny Pool", "Adam Wakes Up", "Kenny Malcolm On Smack Keep steady Prettiest Slave On The Right" tell off "Henry Krinkle's Theme"
• Split 7" with Absent-minded Godz (2/3 Sebadoh), (1999, Guided Projectile Records)
  • "Country Teasers", "Hairy Wine" stall "Reynard the Fox"
• "Laziness", (2004, Discos Alehop, hop 022)
  • "Raglan Top Of Lonsdale Grey", "Assfucksiation Initiated", "Laziness", "Ahoy There"

Videos

• "Country Teasers" live at CasRock Edinburgh, (1994, barnend video)
• "Various Artists" Transistor 1. Anytimecowboy. (video compilation released by Amendment Chronicles (US) around 2001-2002)Features rare live footages from 1998-2001
• "THIS FILM SHOULD NOT EXIST": 1995 tour with The Oblivians, systematic film by Gisella Albertini, Massimo Scocca, Nicolas Drolc, 2020, Les films Furax and Bo Fidelity Cineproduzioni.

Appearances

• Guided Missile Recordings: A "Guided" Tour (1996, Guided Missile)
• Plan Boom (1996, What's That Din Records)
• Maximum Beatbox (1996, Fidel Bastro (Hell No!)/Heinz Krämers Tanz Café)
  • "O1- Only My saviour" "O2 getaway"recorded be extant at Heinz Krämers Tanz Café 1995/96
• Cheapo Crypt Sampler #2! (1997, Crypt Records)
  • "Black Change" and "Mosquito"
• Crypt - Pummel Generation (1997, Beat Generation no. 5)
  • "Black Change" and "Black Cloud Wandering"
• Hits & Missiles (1998, Guided Missile)
• Opscene #6, (1999, Opscene Magazine)
• Don't Move On Me (1999, Butcher's Wig/Shellshock/Pinnacle)
• Flitwick Records Compilation (2002, Flitwick Records)
  • "Independent Mail Guardian (Success)"
• La Legaña Sinfónica (2003, Discos Alehop!)
  • "Please Stop Fucking Be fluent in Other"
• Hot Pinball Rock Vol. 2 (Multiball #22 CD with magazine) (2004, Additional Ball Records)
• Babyhead (2004, S-S Records)
• Static Disaster: The U.K. In Distinction Red Records Sampler (2005, In Nobleness Red)
• Revolver USA Sampler Summer '06 (2006, Midheaven)

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