The Jelly Babies - De Nada EP (1981)

A1 Roller Skate
A2 The Rascal
B1 The Pleasure Of Her Company
B2 Niki Lauda's Car
B3 Into The Valley Of Death Rode The Five Brave Jelly Babies

Danish (Voc, Whistling & Clapping)
Alan T. Wireless (Lead Guitar)
Paul (Beaver) Beveridge (Rhythm Guitar)

Steve (Bass)

Ant (Drums) 

Producer - Grant Showbiz   
Stroke Your Own Pets Often Records

Matrix dead wax runout 
Side A  JB 001 A1   +one
Side B  JB 001 B1 IN TUNE WITH NOTHING

Below info by Paul Beveridge which can be read in full here 

5 piece The Jelly Babies formed in Rainham Essex around 1980.

I'd been doing some tape stuff with various people and decided to put together a "Proper Group" after all, I had a guitar that I could almost play. 
I had a fanzine called 'Crash Smash Crack Ring' through which I came across Alan T Wireless. I'd never met him and he lived on the other side of London but he said he'd play guitar and he'd just met this chap called Ant who was a drummer. Great!
Through tape swapping I met Bass player Steve. He had a beard and a car!  
The line-up was completed by an old school friend Danish, who didn't mind standing up and singing and did it to help us out really as he had  very little interest in music!. The Jelly Babies was strictly for fun.

If there was ever a scene in Rainham The Jelly Babies was it, I'm not aware there were any other groups around and that's why I had to recruit people from the other side of London. 

I can't remember how much the record cost to make because I didn't have any money. The record was financed by Steve who also went on to appear on The Bastoids "Rock n Roll Cake Hole" LP. 

Mark Valentine may have put money in too. We saved on labels by not having them printed and just used a rubber stamp. 

We were lucky to have Grant Showbiz at the controls. He'd just been producing The Fall, who were my favourite group - Crash Smash Crack Ring was once described as "A fanzine mostly dedicated to telling you how great The Fall are"

I had loads of tunes but couldn't write lyrics so anyone was welcome to contribute. 

We recorded the EP at 'Dirt Cheap Studios' in the time it takes to listen to it. 

The EP shows the signs of my lack of lyric writing ability. 
Roller Skate - lyrics from a friend (Mollusc) who wasn't even in the group. 
The Rascal- lyrics lifted from a children's book 
The Pleasure Of Her Company - lyrics by my dad (Johnny Bev), one time sixties pop star who had unused lyrics lying about.  
Niki Lauda's Crash - making use of what Danish thought was his gift for sounding like a car. 
Into The Valley Of Death Rode The Five Brave Jelly Babies - instrumental.

The EP was pressed up in a batch of 500 

Each member of the group designed their own sleeve, so there are 5 different A4 sized sleeves with the "Beaver written" back roughly the same for all.
Beaver -  Woman At The Window (4 Images)

Ant - Geometric Line Drawings

Danish - Guitar Player

Wireless - 5 Georgian Sailors 
Steve - Triangle In Circle 

Shortly after the EP I changed our name to 'Sputniks a Go Go' 

At the same time I was in Alan T Wireless' group, formed after the Jelly babies called 'The Fire Engines' (this was before the well known Scottish Group) 

Alan sang and played Guitar, I played bass, Paul Platypus was the other guitarist, and Ant on drums

Other Known Available Jelly Babies Tracks
Cassette: Posing at the Scala - Crash Smash Crack Ring Tapes [C.S.C.R.1] 1979
Paul & Steve contribute most of the songs with ‘imaginary’ bands like The Ocean Bandits, Technosnort, The Red Plagues

Cassette: Sod Romance [Here Come the Fire Engines] - Crash Smash Crack Ring Tapes [C.S.C.R.2] 1980*
Soylent Green/ Access Denied/ Gillian Is Normal/ Jet Plane/ Sign Of The Times/Concussion (Edit)/ Eugen C352/ Periodic Table Of Videos/ Beautiful Girls/ Purple Squares/ The Sound Of Randomics/ Choices/ Wasteland/ Down On My Knees

Cassette: In Tune With Nothing - Crash Smash Crack Ring Tapes [C.S.C.R.3] April/May1980
Truckie Truckie Truckie/ World Crisis/ I Like Boats/ Roller Skate/ Little Weed/ Here Come The Men In White Coats/ Hari Krisna Said The Gerbil/Angela Rippon/ Dark Side Of Rainham/ Motorbikes/ Sweetie Man/Cleo Laine Farting// Nice Irland/ Squidgy Bum/ Do The Hippy Hippy Countdown/Pipkins Medley/ I'd Rather Be A Wombat/ Drugs/ Roller Skate (Alternative)/ Cowboy Jack The Sheriff/ Stall, In The Cherry Tree Pub/ They Just Taughter/Niki Lauder: Parts 1 - 5

Cassette: Almost Live - Crash Smash Crack Ring Tapes [C.S.C.R.4] 1980*
Living It Up/Candy Bricks/ Save Me/ Anybody Anytime/ Small Hours/ Why Do You Run/ Lace Up Da Funk/ Really Bad Recording/ Creatures Or Habit/Le Chateau Du Pain/Shrivelled In Shadow/JellyBabies

Candy Bricks / Soylent Green available on
VA  CD: Messthetics Greatest Hiss : Classics Of U.K. Cassette-culture D.I.Y.: 1979-1982
- Hyped To Death 2008

Roller Skate / Living It Up available on
VA  CD: Messthetics #107 [D.I.Y. '77-81 London III] 
- Hyped To Death 2009

Useless Info - The Jelly Babies were named after the then-current Doctor Who's favoured food. 

*The tracks are correct the exact listings are not known to me

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