The Snivelling Shits were a punk rock group formed in London in 1977, and centred on Giovanni Dadomo.
[1][2][3] He appeared on the British TV programme Nationwide in late 1976 as part of an episode centred on punk rock, where he stated, "The danger of the Sex Pistols is that they can be boring...".
In 1977 he recorded the novelty punk record "Terminal Stupid"/"I Can't Come", the latter described as "an iconoclastic mantra of amphetamine-induced sexual dysfunction",[1] backed by guitarist and fellow journalist Dave Fudger and various musicians including members of proto punk pub-rock band,Eddie and the Hot Rods, and engineered by Steve Lillywhite, who also played bass guitar for the band.
[2][4] Lillywhite's career as a record producer began to take off and Barry Myers ( proto punk and dub roots reggae disc jockey DJ Scratchy who toured with The Clash ) took over on bass.
"I thought we'd just shorten the name" said Dadomo to French musician, cartoonist and writer Bruno Blum, whose Motörhead Rock Commando comic strips (first published in France in Best) he translated to English for publication in New Music News and as a full colour comic book by Motörhead in 1980.