Spasmodic Caress has been played on NTS in shows including Gabi, featured first on 24 March 2020. Songs played include Register Of Electors and Hit The Dead.

Spasmodic Caress were an English post punk/New Wave band that played many gigs along the East coast and in Ipswich, Colchester and London between 1979 and 1984. They recorded a track for the 4AD 12" compilation Presage(s) in 1980 and also released an album on Falling A Records(www.dynamitevision.com)(www.myspace.com/spasmodiccaress). Talking about 4AD records, they have a good web site that's worth a look (www.4ad.com). Anyhow, Falling A have taken the original cassettes that these tracks were recorded on and re-mastered them for CD. Tracks 7 to 14 are from an audience cassette recording, when the band supported Bauhaus. It doesn't sound too bad although it's obvious that it's a bootleg recording. The band themselves sound like a cross between New Wave and the Ska/Two-Tone movement. The singer almost speaks the words. It is a good example of the embryonic beginnings of the new Wave movement and the notion that there was more to rock than anger, shouting and 3 chords. Saying that, this offering is one for those who are pretty clued up and fans of this era.