Fish Food are:

Andy – Voice
Howard Purse – Guitar
Doug White – Bass
Danny Duck ( alias Daniel Swan ) – Drums

The origins of this band are unknown. They live in a disused church hall near Bristol’s Docks. This is where they practice. Fish Food have played four times in the last year (1980). They took three and a half hours to record the music for this album.

The X-Certs are:

Clive Arnold – Guitar and Vocals
Chris Bostock – Bass and Vocal
Neil Mackie – Drums
Kev Mills – Guitar

Of all the bands that started up in Bristol during the 77-78 period, the X-Certs are one of only a handful remaining. Originally the local heroes of every spikey-haired person ( and honour now bestowed to Vice Squad ), the X-Certs have grown older. wiser and they can now play their instruments. Their first recordings were for Heartbeat Records, ‘Blue Movies’can be heard on the Four Alternatives ep and ‘Anthem’ was featured on the Avon Calling compilation LP.
Their improvement during the intervening eighteen months has been substantial and the introduction of Chris and Kev to the line up has added maturity and power to the bands set. The X-Certs remain one of Bristols best and most popular live bands and a reggae influence now features in about fifty per cent of their material.

The Radicals are:

John – Singing, Guitar and Percussion
King – Bass
Donald – Drums
Martin – Trumpet
Rob – Keyboards
Wendy – Backing Vocals

The Radicals is one of those terrible names that gets thought up when a group of musicians have to find a name for themselves. This is a way of saying that The Radicals do not really exist as such. The songs are written by John and King. John used to play percussion with The Spics, King is a well known musician form the St Pauls area of Bristol.

The Welders are:

Phil Harrison – Keyboards, drums
Stuart Gordon – Guitars, vocals, percussion
James Warren – Tesco Bass, Backing Vocals

This group of musicians from Bath are better known as The Korgis and recorded this one track for The Bristol Recorder using a different name

The Studio tracks on this album were recorded and mixed 16 to 20 October, 1980 at Crescent Studios Bath. They were engineered by David Lord and assisted by the wonderful Steve Street.

This version of the Recorder was conceived and produced by Martin Elbourne, Jonathan Arthur and Thos Brooman with the invaluable help of the following:

Bob Charles
Steve Bryne
Danica Gacesa
Jo Swan
David Cohen
Stephen Pritchard
Dave, Niki and Angi