SELF ABUSE - Unestablished Since 1982 LP Neofolk and guest keyboard player with

and guest keyboard player with the Grateful Dead from 1970 to 1976

The energy translates through the poppy melodies

and wide open eyes

Screaming Dead

Despite having an awful name

SELF ABUSE - Unestablished Since 1982 LP Neofolk and guest keyboard player withSelf Abuse was formed in Bournemouth, Dorset in January 1982 when Andy Nazer [vocals bass] and Dave Brown [guitar vocals] both 16 old and still at school, got together with Roger [later Jarvis] Smale [guitar] and Steve Ridgeway [drums] both age 17. The first gig was played in at the Sloop pub, Poole, [with Barbed Wire] in October and the first cassette 'State of Mind' was recorded and released on their own 'Abused Tapes' label later that year. 1983