Stretchheads

The band wore asbestos firewear, gas masks, dubious ethnic shirts and balaclavas on stage, and blossomed despite depressing support slots with indie establishment acts such as Happy Mondays, The Wonderstuff and The Shamen.

Cosh has since, despite his establishment record industry credentials subsequently held the band to ransom for the original demo tapes.

Touring Europe and playing shows with Dutch band Revenge Of The Carrots and old colleagues Dog Faced Hermans, the band split up in 1991, before which they recorded a session reluctantly granted due to John Walters antibodies to what he saw as 'Northern Comedycore' for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show.

The band developed a confrontational and sexually aggressive reputation and released their debut album on Mogwai's Rock Action Records in 2008, they became infamous for arousing live performance.

p6's vocals have been described as "inhuman, reminiscent of nothing so much as Sesame Street's Grover with electrodes affixed to his genitals", with their music described as "the weirdest, fastest and heaviest thing ever to come cartwheeling out of Scotland".