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Pestrepeller’s Rodent And Insect Eliminator

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Over an hour of house-clearing noise, recorded by a trio of cartoonists in a North Acton industrial estate. We have a few copies of this incredibly rare 1995 release for sale.

This documents the first time the core Pestrepeller membership of Ed Pinsent, Harley R and Savage Pencil played together. No pussy footing around here – it only took a few minutes for the then-unamed band to conjour up a sound that could destroy all minor life forms on contact. A sound so intense it took a full quarter of hour to subside after the band stepped away from their instruments. A world away from the abstract occult psychedelia that Pestrepeller developed on their later recordings.

“This CD purports to be able to clear your house of insects, and it’s not hard to believe… over an hour’s worth of screeching, rumbling noise – in the grand tradition of the middle bit from Sister Ray, old Sonic Youth Records, Metal Machine Music…”
– Andy Roberts, Comics Forum

About Pestrepeller

Pestrepeller (or Ultrasonic Attack Wave Pestepeller, to give them their full moniker) specialise in a unique brand of detailed and noisy improvised music inspired by the occult.

The core of the band is a trio of Ed Pinsent – cartoonist (Illegal Batman, Windy Wilberforce, Drake Ullingsworth), Sound Projector radio show and magazine – Harley R – publisher and editor of Ugly Mug comic – and Savage Pencil – punk cartoonist (Sounds, NME, The Wire) and designer of album covers and t-shirts for bands such as Sonic Youth, The Fall, Sunn O))) and Rocket from the Crypt. The core trio are sometimes joined by honorary pests such as Sharon Gal, Peter Hope Evans, Rob Brown and Gary Ramon.

Pestrepeller have performed at the ICA and the Equinox ‘Festival of Scientific Illumination’. Recordings include Insect and Rodent Eliminator (Sympathy for the Devil records), Nug Yar (Prescription), The Cruel Sea (a collaboration with the Chelsea Magrigal Group), Isle of Dark Magic (Important Records), As Wolf (a split release picture disc with My Cat Is An Alien), Noises for the Leg, Alphabet of Daggers and Rough on Rats.

About this release

Track listing
1. Rodent and Insect Eliminator (61:07)

Recorded in North Acton, London. Released in 1995 on Sympathy for the Record Industry.

Mixed by Sundial’s Gary Ramon in Camden Town. Sleeve design by Eddie Flowers of The Gizmos.

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Celophrane-wrapped jewel case CD. Long out of print, but the House of Harley has a very small number of copies on sale for £20 + p&p each from our Etsy shop. (A fraction of what you’ll pay elsewhere). While stocks last!

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Pestrepeller are Rough on Rats

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Ed Pinsent has discovered a long-thought-lost 2009 edition of his Sound Projector radio show featuring ‘Rough on Rats’, a 90 minute live performance by Pestrepeller, the musical group he and I formed with Savage Pencil.

On this occasion we were joined by guest pest Peter Hope-Evans and worked from a text-instruction composition he provided. And do I hear the voice of Saphron‘s Jill Tipping? Recorded live-to-air in the Resonance FM studio by Sarah Nicol, who deserves an honorary band membership for her imaginative contributions to the sound.

Listen to ‘Rough on Rats’ on the Internet Archive.

If I recall correctly, this is the most recent time we played together, which is a long while ago, but the possibility of a musical reunion always remains. In the meantime, some rare Pestrepeller and Mystery Dick CDs are available, while stocks last, in our Etsy shop and there are rumours that a lost album may surface on Mr E Discs during 2025.

Pestrepeller’s Isle of Dark Magick

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Free improvised noise from the deep UK Underground, enriched with dark pagan folky vibe and horror/supernatural elements. Dedicated to HP Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Austin Osman Spare.

For this 2001 recording, the core Pesterepeller trio of Savage Pencil, Ed Pinsent and Harley R were joined by vocal artiste Rob Brown and Peter Hope-Evans of Medicine Head.

“…an oppressively dark slab of freestyle Improv recorded in a single session… the epic sprawl and sustained impact of the music retain an undiluted potency.”
– Tom Ridge, The Wire

About Pestrepeller

Pestrepeller (or Ultrasonic Attack Wave Pestepeller, to give them their full moniker) specialise in a unique brand of detailed and noisy improvised music inspired by the occult.

The core of the band is a trio of Ed Pinsent – cartoonist (Illegal Batman, Windy Wilberforce, Drake Ullingsworth), Sound Projector radio show and magazine – Harley R – publisher and editor of Ugly Mug comic – and Savage Pencil – punk cartoonist (Sounds, NME, The Wire) and designer of album covers and t-shirts for bands such as Sonic Youth, The Fall, Sunn O))) and Rocket from the Crypt. The core trio are sometimes joined by honorary pests such as Sharon Gal, Peter Hope Evans, Rob Brown and Gary Ramon.

Pestrepeller have performed at the ICA and the Equinox ‘Festival of Scientific Illumination’. Recordings include Insect and Rodent Eliminator (Sympathy for the Devil records), Nug Yar (Prescription), The Cruel Sea (a collaboration with the Chelsea Magrigal Group), Isle of Dark Magic (Important Records), As Wolf (a split release picture disc with My Cat Is An Alien), Noises for the Leg, Alphabet of Daggers and Rough on Rats.

About this release

Track listing
1. Mold With a Mind (15:13)
2. No Screeches and Snakes And Deep Dark Menaces (07:15)
3. My Gun Scatters, My Gun Kills (20:18)
4. Dismembered Dead Things (14:54)
5. The Smell of Wet Fur in the Rain (06:05)
6. Teaching the Clouds to be Inverted Flames (12:35)

Recorded at LMC Sound. Released in 2005 on Important Records.

Engineered by Xentos and Lepke B, former members of cult bands The Homosexuals and Milk from Cheltenham. Cover image was supplied by Martin Stone, guitarist with Mighty Baby and Chili Willi and the Red Hot Peppers.

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Celophrane-wrapped jewel case CD. Long out of print, but the House of Harley has a very small number of copies on sale for £15+ p&p each from our Etsy shop. While stocks last!

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Pestrepeller’s Noises for the Leg

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“It’s out, it’s out, and only the Lord knows when it’ll be on us all…”

A VERY limited release of Pestrepeller’s unbelievable tribute to the Bonzo Dog Band. The Bonzo’s cod-medieval instrumental miniature, ‘Noises for the Leg’, from their Keynsham LP, is extended, elaborated and transfigured into a thirty minute organ and moog meditation on the horror stories of HP Lovecraft.

About Pestrepeller

Pestrepeller (or Attack Wave Pestepeller, to give them their full moniker) specialise in a unique brand of detailed and noisy improvised music inspired by the occult.

The core of the band is a trio of Ed Pinsent – cartoonist (Illegal Batman, Windy Wilberforce, Drake Ullingsworth), Sound Projector radio show and magazine – Harley R – publisher and editor of Ugly Mug comic – and Savage Pencil – punk cartoonist (Sounds, NME, The Wire) and designer of album covers and t-shirts for bands such as Sonic Youth, The Fall, Sunn O))) and Rocket from the Crypt. The core trio are sometimes joined by honorary pests such as Sharon Gal, Peter Hope Evans, Rob Brown and Gary Ramon.

Pestrepeller have performed at the ICA and the Equinox ‘Festival of Scientific Illumination’. Recordings include Insect and Rodent Eliminator (Sympathy for the Devil records), Nug Yar (Prescription), The Cruel Sea (a collaboration with the Chelsea Magrigal Group), Isle of Dark Magic (Important Records), As Wolf (a split release picture disc with My Cat Is An Alien), Noises for the Leg, Alphabet of Daggers and Rough on Rats.

About this release

Track listing
1. Noises for the Leg (5:29)
2. Noises for the Longer Leg (25:56)

The shorter ‘Noises for the Leg’ first appeared in 2003 for Noises for the Limb – a tribute to the Bonzo Dog Band published by Wood Records. (Listen to the entire album on Mark Wood’s YouTube channel).

‘Noises for the Longer Leg’ appears here for the first time.

Recorded at Mr E Studios North.
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CD-R. Card cover. MRE-CDR0003.
ULTRA-LIMITED 2023 numbered edition of six.

£5+ p&p from our Etsy shop. While stocks last!

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