Chime Oblivion - Chime Oblivion

CHIME OBLIVION began out of the blue. David Barbarossa reached out to John Dwyer saying he was a fan of OSEES and he was invited to a show in London. The two hung out and hit it off, "then I rabbit holed on Bow wow wow too…," Dwyer recalls. "I reached out to David and suggested that we try and write some songs together... I flew David out, we met at my studio and spent five days writing basin drums ideas." The two got to know each other and had a lot of laughs.

Dwyer then brought in Weasel Walter, knowing that he would be perfect "to add all that legitimate old-school weird proto-punk no wave guitar scratch to it, which of course he did masterfully." Next came Tom Dolas to play fuzzy marimba, and the fabulous H.L. Nelly, "as I knew her from a record I’d put out back in the day for a band called Naked Lights from Oakland. I knew that she could pull off the vocal style I had in mind."

"For fans of Adam & the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Crass, The Slits, and any other wierdo punk we fell in love with as youths."

• DAVID BARBAROSSA - DRUMS (ADAM & THE ANTS, BOW WOW WOW, FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS)
• JOHN DWYER - BASS, SYNTH, VOCALS (OSEES, DAMAGED BUG)
• WEASEL WALTER - GUITAR (FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, LYDIA LUNCH'S RETROVIRUS)
• TOM DOLAS (OSEES, MR ELEVATOR)
• H.L. NELLY - VOCALS (NAKED LIGHTS, FKA SMILEY)
• BRAD CAULKINS (BENT ARCANA, WITCH EGG)