Band Name: The Snivelling Shits
Music Album: Terminal Stupid
Album Release Date: October 1977
Music Genre: Punk Rock Art Rock
Record Label: Ghetto Rockers
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 2 Tracks Vinyl Album 7" Repress
Giovanni Dadomo (vocals)
Dave Fudger (bass)
Steve Nicol (drums)
Pete Makowski (guitar)
Dadomo, Fudger, Makowski and Nicol were journalists for the (now defunct) British music weekly "Sounds". Dadomo also wrote for "Zig Zag" magazine and managed to fool the NME (a rival magazine to Sounds) into giving their first record the much coveted "single of the week" accolade.
The band played live only a few times (usually billed as "The Snivelling Hits" or just "The Hits") and featured different line-ups to that appearing on their debut record. They also recorded a session for John Peel (BBC Radio 1). They disbanded in 1978.
Giovanni Dadomo died sometime in 1996.
| A | Terminal Stupid | 2:54 |
| B | I Can't Come! | 6:20 |
This edition with a jukebox centre and injection-moulded labels stating Made in France.
Sides A and B are labelled as 'A' and 'A and A' respectively.
Issued on Ghetto Rockers, a reggae subsidiary of Island Records used to circumvent EMI's control over Island's product, an earlier UK pressing on solid-centre paper labels ran to only a maximum of about 1500 copies as the plant supposedly raised reservations over the band's name.
Thanks to fellow New Musical Express journalist Monty Smith, the record became single of the week on the weekly's 6th August 1977 edition and was hurriedly re-pressed in France in greater quantities and distributed in October, this time with large centre-hole plastic labels and in the same picture sleeve.
The front cover photo originally graced the front of the June 12th edition of The Sunday Mirror under the headline "PUNK ROCK JUBILEE SHOCKER" THE FACE OF PUNK" (a girl watching The Stranglers in Manchester. Picture: Brian Randle).
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