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Chineapple Punx! You ought to but it just for that band name. It's one of them annoying different speeds on different sides records. I never notice so everything sounds like death metal. Chineapple Punx (so good!) play speeding mohawk punk in the vein of the Exploited, including a tribute to Arthur Fowler and choruses like the sides of houses. Bloody excellent. Ciderfex are more of a Gas Huffer garagey type sound. Kind of. It cost me 1.50 at a punk picnic, send a couple of quid to cover the records and postage, I should think.
Legion of the Doomed

As Chaos UK would put it, this is 100% two fingers in the air punk rock. Three raucous tracks by each band, both from High Wycombe. The Chineapple Punx side is definately the noisiest (and a song about growing your own food) but both sides are worth cranking your stereo up full blast and jumping round your room to!
Green Anarchist

Great punk as fuck stuff from both bands here. CIDERFEX remind me loads of early Mau Maus, especially the guitar. Pretty funny lyrics too. I've been after hearing the CHINEAPPLE PUNX for some time and low and behold, this ends up in my hands. You've probably already seen people likening them to Choas UK & Oi Polloi so I wont waste your time there. Great punk rock with songs about getting an allotment and cops dieting! And they do sound like good Chaos UK (sorry)
Bald Cactus

Viva Silly Punk! My soft spot has been well & truly punctured by these loopy nutters. The fun-archo explosion has begun! Sounds like SERIOUS DRINKING, THE PIRANHAS and COWBOY KILLERS all got pissed in the pub and joined each others bands for a laff. With songs like "Punk Rock Anorak" "Riot Cop Diet Cop" & a groovy cover of "The Wheels on the Bus" you can't go wrong.
Ruptured Ambitions Catalogue

These 2 groovers are the brightest new hope for taking us pogoing into the next millenium.   CIDEREFX are total oi-punk of the 90's (ie wiv a bit ov branes...) who sing songs about subuteo, the pope & sitting on trains with schizo speed-freaks.  THE CHINEAPPLE PUNX just make me leap around the room right from the word go; offering some of the most positive anarcho-punk advice I've ever heard wirh "Dig" ('Smash the System with your runner beans...') and the acidic vengance of "Riot Cop Diet Cop".  6 trax of sheer punk indulgence.  Fun anarcho is well & truly happening.
Ruptured Ambitions Catalogue

The Chineapple Punx/Ciderfex split 7" ep is now out and I can tell ya it's worth getting.  After Chineapple's impressive debut demo, comes a debut vinyl release, and as you can see it's a split with yet another new and impressive band, Ciderfex.  Both bands play a sort of earlt 80's style whilst having a 90's punk approach to their sound/lyrics as well.  C/P offer 3 trax (DIG, OUR FRIEND ARTHUR & RIOT COP DIET COP) abd so do Ciderfex (BASTARD, THE POPE SONG & MAD DOG KEN).  These are definately 2 bands worth checking out I think, and it's punk rock for the 90's
Toxic Stress

Can you dig these Punx?
You can't beat the smell and fell of a good bit of seven-inch vinyl - especially when it comes from two local bands.
The Chineapple Punx from Amersham, Wycombe and Prestwood have three tracks on a split EP along with another band, Ciderfex, from High Wycombe.
Both bands are friends and decided to pool their money together to put out a single.
The self-funded record sees the four angry Punx spouting on about keeping the fields green and slating the Criminal Justice Bill - a bit like the Levellers in principal, but with a sound more like The Macc Lads. (!-Dooog)
The opening track Dig is an appeal to reclaim the land and has an apt footnote to the lyrics to the memory of the late Arthur Fowler.
Our Friend Arthur is the second track. It isn't about Mr Fowler, but about a Chinese takeaway in High Wycombe. Finally, Riot Cop Diet Cop is a dig at the system and how friends of the band got off a public order offence in court.
All very noisy and dependent on the printed lyrics to understand what is going on.
Write to the band at PO Box 116, Hill Avenue, Amersham, Buckinghamshire to get copies at £2 each.
Mark Sammons Midweek - Tuesday 13th August 1996

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