duties were shared amongst all members of the band on “Sanity Allergy”) and the band instantly underwent more line-up changes as the album was released - Kiehl and Cicotelli returned to Chicago. Stephen Dray and Paul Jarvis surrounded themselves with new like minds in Rob Allum and Graham Sherman (“Sherman at the Controls” writer at “NME”). New material was written in a similar style to “Descension” and a joint headline tour of the UK and Scandinavia with The Young Gods was undertaken to rapturous live reviews from “Dele Fedele” in “NME” and from “Melody Maker”. On return to the UK in late 1989, the band found that Red Flame Records and Ink Records were ceasing to trade. In February 1990, the band stopped practicing but there was no split announced. Stephen Dray and Graham Sherman began recording together for Guerilla Records under the name Euphoria. A 'best of' Slab! compilation, Ship of Fools, comprising tracks from “Descension”, “Sanity Allergy” and the earlier singles was released in 1990. “Descension” was subsequently reissued by Relapse Records where it was equally well-received and influenced a further group of artist and musicians. Vocalist Stephen Dray and guitarist Paul Jarvis reformed the group in 2009 and began working on new material, releasing a 4 song EP “Revelations Chapter One” on “Iron Triangle” record label. Musical style The band's style has been described as a mixture of "modern funk, freeform jazz and punk white noise". Dray said of the band's music: "Why just like modern jazz? Why just like Boyd Rice, or Sonic Youth, or The Swans? Why not mutate the whole bloody thing and make the most godawful sound that you can. We want to take that rock element to the extreme and make it do things that it was never theoretically designed to do." Members Stephen Dray - vocals, saxophone Paul Jarvis - guitar Dave Morris - guitar Hugh Rawson - trumpet Neill Woodger - trombone Bill Davies - bass guitar Robin Risso - drums Margaret Ward - backing vocals, tapes Scott Kiehl - drums, bass Lou Ciccotelli - drums Discography Albums Music from the Iron Lung mini-LP (1987), Ink - UK Indie #21 Descension (1987), Ink - UK Indie #30 Sanity Allergy (1988), Ink Ship of Fools (1991), Ink - compilation Singles "Mars On Ice" (1986), Ink "Parallax Avenue" (1987), Ink - UK Indie #45 "Smoke Rings" (1987), Ink - UK Indie #31