(c’87-’88) Martin Crook (bass / vocals), Andy ‘Bolus’ Bullock (?), and Neale Brodie (?).

Experimental Slack Bladder became part of the Frimley band co-op known as The Grain. Along with fellow members: Magic Moments at Twilight Time, The Charles, Momento Mori, The Visionairies, and Greed they put on a free festival at Highland Farm, Frimley Green, on 20 September ’87, in aid of Greenpeace.

Insert sleeve for Slack Bladder’s “Safe Experiments with Bacteria” cassette LP. Picture courtesy of Mick Magic

Next Slack Bladder appeared with Magic Moments at Twilight Time at Frimley Community Centre, on 12 December ’87, for a Xmas bash gig that went by the ‘A Taste of Paranoia” moniker. A live recording of the bands “Suicide Man” was included on the Grain-Aid compilation in early ’88. They also released the “Safe Experiments with Bacteria” cassette LP that year.

Crook is now in Aldershot band Princess, while Bullock goes by the performing name Andy Bolus and is still performing as the solo artist Evil Moisture.

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The Grain-Aid compilation, released in 1987, included Slack Bladder.
Slack Badder. Picture courtesy of Mick Magic
12 December 1987: Poster / Flyer for gig at Frimley Community Centre. Picture courtesy of Mick Magic