In February 1977, one Simon Paris invested £2.36 on a Melody Maker advert: "Limited but creative guitarist seeks versatile musicians for experimental fast bleak music." Keyboardist Igor was the first to answer, and between them they assembled Blue Screaming. Igor soon landed a Tuesday-night residency at the Duke of Lancaster starting June 14th...alas, before they had written any songs. "The first date was a kind of psychedelic punk slapstick" but by the end of their residency they'd found their groove. (Someone rather aptly called them "a fairground in a cement-mixer.") Their lone single featured "Bland Hotel", a new-wavey rant against mercenary new wave bands (the flip-side was far stronger), but Blue Screaming's best material was never released. "Gunpoint" comes from the first of two Weemeenit Studio sessions in late 1978. Both went on to Take It. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.