On MP3 for the first time... Foist act from c.1999-2000, comprising Beccy Borck, vocals, Richard Robbins, bass, Paul "Chox" Thornton, guitar, Lee Hyett, keyboards, Ben Williams, drums.... gigged quite a bit around the Forest of Dean and beyond after making their debut at Parkend Workingmen's Club sometime around Christmas, possibly 1998??? All kinds of influences made a seriously danceable and fiesty funk stew. 

Dobbins is now with the Peppermint Hunting Lodge, Lee and Ben with Pure Evil, Beccy is managing the Angel in Coleford, and Chox is the unique creative mastermind and force behind all past, present and future Foist creations...

04 Piggy

06 Please Y'Self

12 Hide & Seek

Made in about 1992, previously available on the Foist tape compilation The Storey Of Brian's Mind. Inspired by the film The Incredible Shrinking Man and the beliefs of Hassan I Sahba (via the Illuminatus trilogy)

HEX FREMLIN: Shrunken Man

from about 1996, previously available on Foist's Helium Dealer EP cassette. Meaningless song title but angry lyrics, said Fuck the system a few too many times. 

HELIUM DEALER: Richard

not much to say about this, except fucked-up, stream-of-consciousness bullshit dub poetry, Casio sampler employed to great effect ("I like chicken"), from about 1990

LAMPSHADE ATMOSPHERE ORCHESTRA: Lampshade

treble-heavy Casio bad acid house from 1989, maybe the first-ever Foist track (we can't quite remember), check the ZX-Spectrum computer tape sound we sampled. If you manage to get all the way through this, you must be one of Foist's own

METASSIUM: Haemorrhage Death

Snippet of jungle from the Foist vaults, circa 1996, previously only available on the Helium Dealer EP (Foist tape), vocals by BBC Radio Cymru (backwards)

HELIUM DEALER: David Brazil

Epic acid space opera made in 1991-2 by the mute evil twisted genius behind the Foist phenomenon, previously available on the Foist tape compilation The Storey Of Brian's Mind. Once 'performed' in a promenade style at the Forest Fayre, intensely annoying the teepee hippies by disrupting their drum circle, hee-hee

DR PLEASURE: Tubular Hell

HELIUM DEALER: Shock Ice (Joe Meek's Ice Cream Van)

close to the dawn of Foist, late 1989/early 1990

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