160dB / The Fascists:

160dB (first known as Villidge Id!ot, then 190dB) formed in 2001 and was the result of the sometime comings-together of guitarist Alex Katz, drummer 'Swiss' Kris Figgis and bassist Rik Sachs, three disaffected youths from the suburbs of Bristol, UK.

Never organised enough to form a band in any conventional sense of the word and with their purpose initially only self-fulfilling, their released material is a haphazard collection of musical obscenities and punk pastiche; on one hand roughly recorded, badly played and out of tune and on the other a prodigous embryo of talent culled (almost unfairly) before birth.

Notable for obscure concept albums, perpetual spontaneity and their almost typical British humour, they are a group that stopped before they ever really started, yet despite having no real place to practise, little money, cheap equipment and armed only with their foul mouths, dirty lyrics and some musical knowledge, they resilliently attempted to stain history's pages with their insidious brand of bizarre rock n roll.