Historia
Peter and the Test Tube Babies es una banda de punk rock que se formó en la pequeña ciudad de Peacehaven, Inglaterra en 1978 por Del Strangefish y Peter Bywaters. Debido a sus letras humorísticas, han sido considerados parte del subgénero Punk Pathetique. Peter and the Test Tube Babies fueron presentados por primera vez en la revista Sounds en julio de 1980, y después de una sesión en John Peel Radio One, hicieron su debut en vinilo en el álbum recopilatorio de Brighton Vaultage 78. También tenían dos canciones en el seminal "Oi! compilatión" Oi! the album en ese mismo año. Favorecieron sus letras absurdas y los títulos extraños, tales como "The Queen Gives Good Blow Jobs"(La Reina da buenas mamadas). En 1982, subieron al chart con la versión de Gary Glitter "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" en su album "Pissed and Proud".
Cuando la banda no está de gira, Peter Bywaters ofrece clases de Inglés como segunda lengua en su casa de Brighton.
Siguen en activo en la década del 2000. Su espectáculo pulido y sus actuaciones profesionales está en contraste con el carácter irreverente y bromista de sus letras.
Discografía
01- Pissed and Proud (1982)
1. Moped Lads
2. Banned From The Pubs
3. Elvis Is Dead
4. Up Yer Bum
5. Smash N Grab Raid
6. Run Like Hell
7. Shitstirrer
8. Intensive Care
9. Keep Britain Untidy
10. Transvestite
11. Maniac
12. Disco
13. Leader Of The Gang
02- Mating Sound of South American Frogs (1983)
01- September Part 1
02- Guest List
03- One Night Stand
04- Let's Burn
05- The Jinx
06- Blown Out Again
07- Wimpeez
08- Easter Bank Holiday '83
09- No Invitation
10- Pissed Punks (Go For It)
11- Never Made It
12- September Part 2
03- The Loud Blaring Punk Rock Album (1984)
01 Oral Annie
02 We're Too Drunk
03 Pick Yer Nose (And Eat It)
04 Vicars Wank Too
05 Snakebite
06 I Lust for the Disgusting Thi
07 Tupperware Party
08 Breast Cancer
09 T.Q.G.G.B. J's
10 Student Wankers
11 Big Mouth
12 Child Molester
13 Porno Queen
14 Being Sick
15 Excuses
16 Beat up the Mods
17 Get 'Em in (And Get 'Em Off)
18 Rock & Roll Is Shit
04- Journey To The Center of Johnny Clarke's Head (1984)
1- The Journey Begins
2- Who The Hell Is Jolly?
3- What's Up With Trapper Records?
4- Go For It
5- Banned From The Pubs
6- From The Heart
7- T.Q.G.G.B.J.'s
8- Go To The Garage Mate
9- The Golden Voice Beckons You
10- Elvis Is Dead
11- Wimpy's Are Shit
12- Reggae Meets Le Punk Movement
13- Tupperware Party
14- Skin One Up Ralph
15- Keep Britain Untidy
16- Who The Hell Is Jolly Part 2
17- I Lust For The Disgusting Things In Life
18- All About Love
19- Time To Go Home
05- Soberphobia (1986)
1. key to the city
2. louise wouldn't like it
3. spirit of keith moon
4. allergic to life
5. all about love
6. he's on the whiskey (watch out)
7. boozanza
8. every time i see her
9. ghost in my bedsit
10. every second counts
06- The $hit Factory (1990)
1. I Just Can't Wait
2. Toy Boy
3. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
4. F.L.M.
5. I'd Rather Jack
6. When I Fall in Love
7. Love in the First Degree
8. Harder I Try
9. Hand on Your Heart
10. Venus
11. Especially for You
12. Never Gonna Give You Up
13. Too Many Broken Hearts
14. Who's Leaving Who
07- Cringe (1991)
01- Theme From Cringe
02- Cringe
03- Shit British Tour
04- The Gardener
05- Launch 'Em Now
06- Reality Calling
07- The Man Who Did Nothing
08- Bare Necessities
09- Weekend Warrior
10- V.D.U. Head
11- Shit At It
12- There's A Penis On My Shoulder
13- Tuinal Shuffle
14- Latent Pyschosis
15- Goodbye Forever
16- Theme From Cringe (Revisited)
17- Riot
18- Yakety Sax/March Of The Gladiatores
08- Supermodels (1995)
01- supermodels
02- giving up drinking
03- mr. mortgage
04- shake my world
05- u bore me
06- temptation
07- jetsetter
08- love is dead
09- crying in the snow
10- dog society
11- chasing shadows
12- bad loser
13- let's do lunch
14- spacecake
15- busy doing nothing
09- The Punk Singles Collection (1995)
01 Banned from the pubs
02 Moped lads
03 Peacehaven wild kids
04 Run like hell
05 Up yer bum
06 Zombie creeping flesh
07 No invitation (single version
08 Smash and grab
09 The jinx (7'' version)
10 Trapper ain't got a bird
11 Wimpeez
12 Never made it (7'' version)
13 Blown out again (rehashed mix
14 Rotting in the fart sack
15 Ten deadly sins
16 Spirit of Keith Moon (single
17 Boozanza (single version)
18 Alcohol
19 Key to the city (7'' version)
20 Spirit of Keith Moon (live)
21 The jinx (live)
22 Run like hell (live)
23 Vicars wank too (live)
10- Alien Pubduction (1998)
01- Sour Grapes
02- Early Grave
03- 1.4.7.1
04- I'm Getting Pissed For Xmas
05- The Troublemakers
06- Talkshow
07- Why Bother?
08- Bloody Mary
09- Big Disappointment
10- Long Way From Home
11- Meet You At The All-night Offie
12- The Nutter
13- All In Her Head
14- Legless
15- Twenty Years
16- Alien Pubduction
11- A Foot Full of Bullets (2005)
01- My unlucky day
02- Driven to beers
03- Minor celebrity
04- Ye olde pub rocker
05- Have and have nots
06- Smiling through the tears
07- Foot full of bullets
08- The mistress
09- Distorted view
10- Still love the pub
11- Traffic jam man
12- All about love
12- Piss Ups (2012)
01 - Disco Inferno
02 - Where’s Captain Kirk
03 - Toy Boy
04 - Love In The First Degree
05 - Gay Bar
06 - Devil In Disguise
07 - When I Fall In Love
08 - Venus
09 - I Just Can’t Wait
10 - Busy Doing Nothing
11 - Especially For You
12 - Folsom Prison
13 - Ring Of Fire
14 - Bare Necessities
15 - Hocus Pokus
16 - Yakity Sax
13- Peter and The Test Tube Babies + Penny Cocks (Split 7") (2012)
01 - Peter & The Test Tube Babies - Youth Of Today
02 - Peter & The Test Tube Babies - The Twitter Song
03 - Penny Cocks - Down The Underground
04 - Penny Cocks - Playing With Fire
04 - Penny Cocks - Playing With Fire
14- That Shallot (2017)
2 - C U Next Tuesday
3 - None of Your Fucking Business
4 - Wrong
5 - Silicone Beer Gut
6 - Youth of Today
7 - Say What You Want
8 - Tramp Killer
9 - When Girlfriends Attack
10 - What Next
11 - Crap Californian Punk Band
12 - Honesty
13 - 17 Red
14 - Pissedenstein
