The Poison Girls were a British anarcho-punk band. The female singer/guitarist, Vi Subversa, was a middle-aged mother of two at the band's inception, and wrote songs that explored sexuality and gender roles, usually from an anarchist perspective. The original Poison Girls line-up also included: Lance D'Boyle (drums); Richard Famous (guitar/vocals); Nil (bass/electric violin); and Bernhardt Rebours (bass/synthesiser/piano).

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Poison Girls formed in Brighton, UK in 1976, before moving to Burleigh House in Essex, near to Dial House, the home of fellow anarchist band Crass, with whom they worked closely for a number of years, playing over 100 gigs with the band. In 1979 they revived the peace movement by playing a number of benefit gigs with Crass and paying for the production of the first CND badges since CND's heyday. Again in 1979, and again with Crass, they proved influential to the establishment of the short lived Wapping Anarchist Centre by contributing the track "Persons Unknown" to a split single with Crass (who contributed "Bloody Revolutions") and raising over £10,000. Their song "Bully Boys", a attack on violent machismo led to the band being blacklisted by the left-wing SWP and, ironically, attacked by members of the National Front both convinced it was an attck on them. The band also set up the label X-N-Trix alongside a publishing arm for the Impossible Dream magazine and recording studios for other artists.

Though their last studio recording to date was in 1985, a number of Poison Girls compilations have since been released, and their songs frequently appear on punk anthologies.

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AG_323 (A.G. ) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:37:17 -0000
You know how that go, skull&the cross bone..this is poison to boys and girls who do not know...-@eminem
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