ON THIS DAY ... in 1985 - TABITHA'S NIGHTMARE
50 photos from the Batcave, 4th September 1985
Interesting band formed by Mark ‘Tinley’ Ty-Wharton (including fellow Let’s Wreck Mother member Marcus Scott on drums), alongside Richard Butler on bass and Julia Orr on vocals.
They were recently included on Cherry Red’s gigantic Silhouettes & Statues (A Gothic Revolution 1978 - 1986) compilation, with a live version of ‘Heroin’, recorded at the Batcave, but otherwise the best evidence for you is on the Tinley bandcamp page, where they demonstrate some fairly strange fusions were going on:
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