The debut release by the band, this is still their most collectable. There were 2 pressings of 500 each. The first came with a photocopied lyric sheet, the second didn’t. Not many people know that…even fewer give a damn!

The session at Treetop was originally conducted to record a demo tape - ‘Leave Your Ears Behind’. The tape got out around the country and Tim from COR Records in Bristol got in touch to say he wanted to release it. He’d been blown away by the band when he caught them live in Leeds (or maybe Bradford). 8 tracks were taken from the tape and repackaged as ‘Violent Nun’.

Pete Dee from Ipswich’s (until then) most famous punk band, The Adicts, sat in on the session and helped with production. His ‘can we have a bit more top on the bass drum?’ kept the band endlessly amused. In the end he got in the way and kept trying to slow things down and clean them up.

On the record sleeve Wolfie is credited w/ playing the violin although there’s no violin to be heard. The violin playing is on the original tape, but was left off when the tracks got transferred to record.

Cover design was supplied by Tommy. The photo came from a newspaper report on the Pope’s visit to the UK. A nun is being helped to her feet by a policeman, but it looks like she could be attacking him instead. Used entirely without permission in true punk rock style.

All the artwork and design for this release was originally done by singer and cartoon god, Bobby Jones, but at the last minute we realised we didn’t have lettering for the front cover and Bobby was unavailable - so a dipsomaniac medical student called Iain was asked to help out. He came up with the lettering shown above (Tommy had drawn the logo and the face earlier). This was the 2nd time that Iain had stepped in and helped out - Ed was at college with the guy and he’d previously been co-opted as driver on the Stupids’ week long Scottish tour early in the year. He acquitted himself superbly despite being asked to leave at literally 15 minutes notice and wasn’t actually seen asleep by anyone for the whole tour!