The Eratics: Body On The Line

Penultimate number of the Eratics 40th anniversary ep.. Trying to get to a rehearsal, trains stopped, body on the line. We churned this one out following that incident, it got mixed into a metaphor.. I guess if there's such a thing as 'country punk' this might be it.. Appearing are Stringy, Snout, Bondage, Roper, Dan and Jim, Karen (fleetingly) Tel and Harry RIP.. Photo's are Eratics, Look Mummy Clowns, Peckinpah and Sergeant Snout, which are essentially the same band. We started as a primitive punk band, got caught up in the anarcho punk scene then the post punk scene, then faded away, came back as a heavy duty rock band then went a bit prog punk. Now we don't know what the hell we are! But the point is, we aint stuck where we started, and that if anything, remains true to the ethos we originally had. It's been a long road, a road to nowhere, but a road I'd walk down again any day of the week. Life's an adventure, full of pit falls, highs n lows, we stay the same but we change too. That winding road is there to walk down, where it leads one knows not, but if one stops to rest too long then the energy to move on quickly evaporates. We are explorers, our own creative impulses cannot be bottled into ways of thinking, being, that's for the people who can't or won't follow that road no more. Nothing is finished, it's just developing, the end is just the start of another beginning. Stringy 2019