A Touch Of Hysteria - 96 Tapes - 1984

In similar circumstances to another band from the north west of England (Anarka And Poppy, uploaded onto my KZbin channel recently) Josef Porta had some influence on A Touch Of Hysteria being discussed all the way down south in Hackney, one of the grittier parts of East London back in the early 1980's.
Eventually Rob Challice's 96 Tapes cassette only label released this fine cassette, and this cassette was my introduction to the band. A Touch Of Hysteria also in tandem, had their own cassettes produced to sell at their infrequent local gigs.
This 96 Tapes cassette only release was not the preferred choice for the band. There was discussions, during one of the band's visits to Brougham Road, of a 7" record by A Touch Of Hysteria split with The Astronauts to be released on the All The Madmen record label.
This sadly never happened.
Although the band were supporters of The Mob and anarcho-punk in general, thankfully A Touch Of Hysteria seemed to be closer to Kirk Brandon's The Pack music wise, and Part 1 lyric wise, lot's of religious 'imagery' within those lyrics. Original sin and so forth. The artwork was also suitably grotesque.
A Touch Of Hysteria were active from 1982 until 1985.
A photograph from my collection uploaded onto this KZbin video (between the cassette cover scans) was taken at an old School in Kendal after one of A Touch Of Hysteria's last performances supporting their old friends Josef and Curtis who were now in Blyth Power.
This photograph features A Touch Of Hysteria and Blyth Power members and friends of both bands.
After A Touch Of Hysteria, Chris eventually joined some college friends to form a band called Lush. I saw Lush several times at the beginning of their career in small London venues. Chris was also a member of Hard Skin for a few months at the beginning of Ben's (Thatcher On Acid) and Sean's (Wat Tyler) parody oi! band forming.
Chris, the drummer of A Touch Of Hysteria, sadly committed suicide in the mid 1990's.
A Touch Of Hysteria created a handful of songs that ended up on this 96 Tapes cassette that were / are of the highest quality.

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