STEVE IGNORANT WITH PARANOID VISIONS - NOW AND THEN...! (2024 remaster)
Steve Ignorant with Paranoid Visions - NOW AND THEN...!
re mastered and re released on special edition purple/blue/yellow vinyl
PRE SALE - OUT NOVENBER 15TH 2024
Steve Ignorant with Paranoid Visions’ follow up the hugely successful 2013 LP “When…?”, a commercial and critical hit, was 2016’s LP “Now and Then….!”
Recorded in Dublin and Norwich throughout the spring of 2016, “Now and Then…!” is the sound of a collaboration that had grown together and were more confident about their abilities. In 2013 when the announcement was made that Steve Ignorant was returning to recording with a bunch of Irish reprobates, some were sceptical, not least the band themselves…but the resultant deliberately lo-fi angry slab of vinyl sold very well and garnered a lot of support. Three years later, with gigs ranging from pubs and clubs in the UK to festival slots in America and Canada, the band recorded “Now and Then…!“. The material was a combination of new songs and reworked songs from Steve Ignorant’s post-Crass days and Paranoid Visions unreleased or underplayed material. The production is rich, the artwork is beautifully colourful and the material has been very well received at shows throughout 2015 and 2016. Music ranging from the Gang of Four-esque “Look Mummy Clowns” or “Bleak Town Revisited” to the Ramonesy “Loudmouth”, the dark “Fan the Flames” or speed punk of “Something More” shows the band are as creatively adept and eclectic as ever. But the powerful recordings of Schwartzeneggar’s “Art and Craft”, Stratford Mercenaries “No More Running” and “Where is Love” demonstrate a passionate vocalist who still believes every word he said and believed at the time they were originally released.
This album, amazingly debuted in the Irish charts at #6…in fact the midweek chart listings had it at #2, one place behind Green day!
The record, which has been out of print for several years, gets its re release by FOAD Musick in association with Dimlo Productions and Cadiz Music and is pressed on beautiful purple , blue and yellow vinyl on November 22nd 2024.
What people said about the record when it was first released:
This is a really eclectically diverse album which blends together the differing styles of music and the diverse range of vocals of Deko Dachau, Steve Ignorant and Aoife Destruction. The album gives them a platform individually and as a collective to share their thoughts, hopes, dreams and beliefs.
This was a really enjoyable album and I thought that Steve Ignorant and Paranoid Visions really complemented each other lyrically and musically.
This must be a contender for Punk album of the year.
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Musically it still has a base in fear and danger. Deko spits his lyrics out with venom, and a distaste for the establishment that austerity has only made stronger. They have joined forces once more with Steve Ignorant for a second album and Steve is also spitting out those words like he did back in the Crass days. This is a statement of intent from people sick and tired of what passes for those who think they know better. A refusal to accept those who say they know what the consequences of austerity are, but that it was needed to keep natural order. This new world order is what Paranoid Visions and Crass were railing against.
It's pretty clear the combining of these two massive punk forces will likely see further collaboration as this seems to be a match made in punk heaven.
the unbeatable tag team of Paranoid Visions and former Crass singer Steve Ignorant serve up their main course in the form of this full length album– and what a tasty treat it is. Raw, razor-sharp and fuelled by the rebellious spirit we’ve come to expect, the record rocks with the best of them and is a more than welcome reminder that punk and politics remain a potent mix.