Luton, UK

The designs are from my younger brother, James. I had so many blank tape bootlegs that I’d been stockpiling since the mid seventies when I started doing gigs. In fact my first knowledge of Lustfaust came from a gig. A pub in north London if I remember rightly? I picked up the first five tapes of their drummer who was the only one of the band I could get any sense off. Can’t remember the music at all. What they sound like?

Also got a brace of their fanzines but those have sadly perished. I got more and more tapes through the fanzine (sorry can’t remember the name) and they mostly ended up in the pile of blank tapes I had. I must’ve stopped collecting when I got to 18 or so, which would’ve been 1981. So I had this massive sack full of blank tapes, the lion’s share of which I had no idea of their beginnings.

I’m told by James that he found this sack long after I’d forgotten it and rifled through and picked out a stash of tapes. He were bored in the summer break from school and was keen to do something that would impress me which is funny as I no longer lived with me mum and dad. Anyhow, they tapes he did the best stuff with were the Lustfaust stuff. This is probably since the tapes they made had the photocopied papers inside them so could be identified. He tells me it were made through photocopies made onto coloured papers. He did it at my mum’s office (free photocopies and glue). I remember when he showed it to me I laughed him out and me mum gave us a bollocking and explained they were in my honour and I should have said thanks. I later did and kept them as they were quite fetching! Funny though, half the papers won’t fit in tape case as you can’t bend them over. All the pictures are from horror films which me brother and I used to watch together, him behind the settee crapping himself. Yeah, I like to think I played an important part in the boy’s upbringing.