In 1978 School Meals released their one and only single, a double A side Headmaster b/w Such A Spiv. Recorded on an 4 track at John Rivers' original Woodbine Studio in Woodbine Street, Leamington Spa. With limited resources 500 copies were pressed and we set about flogging them at gigs, around various vinyl emporia and even by post if you sent a postal order. While this record received glowing praise from the press, including an amusing plug from John Peel, it was also the subject of a court injuction from a defunct kiddies theatre group who had been calling themselves School Meals. A writ was duly served forbidding the use of the the name School Meals until the case could be settled in court. Amongst the legal verbiage in the writ were the words "School Meals who shall henceforth be known as the defendants". So we got out our crayons and hurridly created a new logo, printed up a load of Defendants stickers and set about obscuring the original artwork on the remaining 350 singles.
This website remembers with great affection one of the many great post punk DIY pop bands of the late 70's.
If you would like to hear more DIY sounds of the 70's you could do worse than to check out Messthetics at the Hyped 2 Death store.
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