Ex Post Facto - She'll Rape the World (1984)

Ex Post Facto was born when the electronic duo Foreign Bodies met the Glass Torpedoes. Chris Clarke (vocals, former Foreign Bodies, later Placenta Sisters and Goat People), Frank Sparks (vocals and keyboards, ex Foreign Bodies) teamed up with Mark Coleridge (drums, former Glass Torpedoes, later Glitter Band, Project23, Stiffs) and this act (plus some Kal and J.O.B. helping in the studio) released the single Ex Post Facto (Dec. 1981) which also became the band’s name (see relevant post below). The line-up extended in 1982 including a second Glass Torpedoes former member, Paul Reason (guitar, later US Companion, Keep It Dark), and Peter Chewin on second keyboards (later with Danse Macabre and Innervision), especially for live shows. The unstable status of the members of the band is clear by a look at the cover of EPF’s second single, Oceanic Explorer (Nov. 1982, see relevant post below), where only Clarke and Sparks are featured. In 1983 Chris Clarke reckons “With this new line-up we’re planning to make the music writing a more democratic affair, where everyone will contribute to the material. One song in particular was an idea that Frank and I had ‘Dancing Child’ and we didn’t have to tell the band what to play, they just came up with really brilliant bass lines and brilliant guitar lines and the whole thing has really worked well. It’s the first song we’ve written together as a band” (Breakout, March 1983). Dancing Child was to be the band third single (Sept 1983, see relevant post below), when the line up was modified with the inclusion of Bernie Carroll, another Glass Torpedoes member (bass, later Young Lions).
In October 1984 (after participating with the song Enchanted Ground on the compilation A Secret Liverpool, and after performing a on a Peel Session) Ex Post Facto released their only album, She’ll Rape the World, recorded live at Pickwick’s. On that occasion Judith Laity (cello, Goat People, Royal Family and the Poor) and Andy Warren (guitar and vocals, I-Lands) were added to the original line-up.

She’ll Rape the World (Oct. 1984)

- Prologue
- Dancing Child
- Actor’s Warning
- Innocence
- Daylight Nightmares
- It’s No Show
- Til Victory (Patti Smith)
- Trilogy
- Oceanic Explorers
- Ruth Ellis
- Her Eyes Are Blue A Blue Million Miles (Captain Beefheart)
- Bast.


Not long after the release of the album Coleridge joined Afraid of Mice, Reason joined Keep It Dark, and Carroll the Young Lions, and the band was reduced as a duo (as it was at the beginning, with the Foreign Bodies) untill Clarked joined the all-girl group the Placenta Sisters in 1986, and Ex Post Facto was history.


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