The Stabilisers have released their first album ‘Last Chance Saloon’ on Italian label Skipping Musez late last year. This will followed by a 4 track EP, ‘Evil Picnic’ to be pressed on authentic crackly 7” vinyl by another Italian based label, Nicotine. 

  The Stabilisers current line up gelled when guitarist Allan Crockford chanced upon the original trio of Jon Bott, Simon Corbey and Francis Braithwaite reluctantly providing the soundtrack to a tasty brawl in a seedy SE London pub last year. As bass player with, amongst others, '80s garage pioneers The Prisoners, The James Taylor Quartet (JTQ), Billy Childish's Headcoats and current psycho-mod faves The Solarflares (fifth album released imminently), he had himself played in front of some mixed audiences over the years. The Stabilisers ability to hold their nerve and their tuning whilst the audience destruction-tested the pub pool cues on each others heads impressed him almost as much as the massively catchy, powerful and often funny set of punk-pop they managed to deliver to the otherwise engaged occupants of the makeshift dance floor. After the gig, as the band took cover in the toilet, Allan offered to join the band. He did this partly because he was convinced he might be the missing piece in their punk rock puzzle, but also so they had an extra pair of fists - an important consideration if they were survive many more nights on the London dive circuit.

  They decided to take Allan up on his offer. With more than 30 albums to his name, he could bring to the band a wealth of musical experience, and, more importantly, a load of amplifiers they could borrow. And a van. In turn, they offered him the opportunity to fill a gap in his musical portfolio - a chance to play loud 6 string guitar in a band that sounded like an unholy crossbreed of early Clash, XTC, the Buzzcocks, Generation X and The Boys, with the added genetic fingerprints of The Who in ‘65, the Ramones, The Damned and some of the more angular garage bands of the late 60's. 

  The result is a band whose makeup comprises an anarchist vegan medical student, a disgraced former peer and active eco warrior, a minor musical cult figure and a leading software hacker.  An odd mix of personalities that almost counter-intuitively manages to produce music as tightly focused as the laser sight on a long-range rifle. Why not let yourself be one of their targets….