Got the Needle Stuck in a Groove
In January 2002 the appeared at the 5th Awesome Wreck'n'Roll Cirkus at Brighton's Concorde2.

Organised by SCRAP Records, it was a fantastic night with some amazing goups playing :the megagrooving DSG (who use a visual digi-optic to show road movies from old festivals throughout a show of live hip-hop-reggae punk-dub antics), powerpunk rockers FlatPig, Superkings and the crowd-baiting Yogo Crow Show (not to mention Secret Films' underground mobile cinema and some glittering stilt-walkers).

Crusty old geezer Judge Trev displayed his ripeness by wearing a ripped up cow-skin jacket that was older than most of the people there.

Best moment of the whole evening, though, went to the Lords of the New Church; the dark, gothic punk rock supergroup blasted the cobwebs outta the big, expensive venue with a mesmerising sonic attack.

We (the Criminals of Evolution) tried our best to compare with this top-notch performance but we were hampered by a drummer who dropped his slippery sticks and a guitarist who forgot his own songs. As a climax we blew up the amps with our swooping, scraping swansong Earache.

Still, I think we made an impression and with five tunes in fourteen minutes we sure don't hang around.