Hell in a Handbasket

Primary Genre(s): Punk, Rock, Blues

Band Members: Michael Bowser (vocals), Peter Green (guitar), Trent Parker (bass), Joseph Papa (drums)

Main Influences: Dead Kennedys/other Jello Biafra, The Cramps, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Led Zeppelin, Six Ft Hick/Gentle Ben and His Sensitive Side, The Birthday Party/Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, TISM, Pixies, Ramones, The Clash, Beasts of Bourbon, Moistboyz/Ween, MDC, Devo, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Tom Waits, The Pogues, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, The B-52s, Body Count, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, SOD, Ministry, Carter USM, Regurgitator, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Sex Pistols/Public Image Ltd, The Damned, The Fall, The Macc Lads, The Stranglers, Butthole Surfers, Tomahawk/Faith No More/other Mike Patton, LSD (Life, Sex and Death), AC/DC, The Darkness, The Dead Milkmen, Suicidal Tendencies, The Offspring, Blink 182, The Fauves, Misfits, Black Flag, Divinyls, Wall of Voodoo/Andy Prieboy/Stan Ridgway, “Weird Al” Yankovic, The Wreckery/Hugo Race...

Another project with Peter Green on guitar. This "punk" - at a pinch - band was co-founded from the ashes of an ill-fated duo named "La Savants", that never quite made it to the stage or studio. Taking only the smallest of cues from No Love Lost and The Wretched Villains, Hell in a Handbasket was all about the RAWK...that's Rock 'n' Roll with two capital fuckin' R's, maaaaaaan!

As the name suggests, chaos also loomed quite large in the HIAH philosophy. Perhaps a little too large at times, I'll confess; and I was the number one culprit in that regard, I suspect. Our shows did garner a small reputation for being rather on the "energetic" side, and I might dig out some footage as evidence in the near-ish future (archaic digital formats meaning some conversion wizardry may be in the works first)!

In the meantime have a Bandcamp link, some images - including a link to a bonus "In the Studio" folder, full of slightly inferior but nonetheless "historical" pics - and some prouder examples of my admittedly erratic lyrical output. I've also included the full six-page layout of the first EP's insert, not least of all 'cause of the sheer frigging effort put into it (later CD artwork destined to become less, erm, "ambitious")!

https://hellinahandbasket.bandcamp.com/releases

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4zntoa1xyvc6y0a/AAAadI9V8YlfOvKp57y17Jjea?dl=0

(Photography Copyright © Tim Page, Ken Green, A.P. Hobson, and persons unconfirmed; EP and album artwork designed by Michael Bowser and realised by A.P. Hobson, classic artwork by Luca Signorelli, Michael Pacher, Zeichner Fabre, and persons unconfirmed.)