Weird Noise EP
The Sell-Outs
The Ballad of Fuck Off Records (Fuck Off Records)

The Sell-Outs were a band led by Fuck Off records supremo Jonathan Barnett. The line up on the record is Jonathan on vocals, Steve Lake on detuned bass, Mark Mob of the Mob on detuned guitar and Kiff-Kiff from World Domination Enterprises and the 012 on drums. Jonathan and Kiff-Kiff detuned the instruments and asked us to make a random unholy row while Jonathan screamed his lyrics about running a budget record label whilst signing on the dole and trying to exploit (in a very small time way) the resources of larger record companies. The aim, as with most of these things, seemed to be to help bring about the demise of the record industry and there after the whole global capitalist, military industrial complex; to tap into some creative, life/art/spirit force through spontaneity and improvisation; and in the process try to make Jonathan the star he really should have been. The whole enterprise was doomed sadly. The track was truly awful, though the E.P. it comes from did have some amusing tracks by Danny & the Dressmakers and a good track by the 012. It also contained a track each by the 'Door and the Window' and the Instant Automatons ("Electronic Music"). Instant Automatons Bass Player and composer Protag now plays bass in the reactivated ZOUNDS.

The 1980's

ZOUNDS - see Zounds Discography

WORLD SERVICE - featuring ex Zounds members Lawrence Wood and Nick Godwin.
Celebration Town/Turn Out The Lights (Rough Trade)

SOLO - variously featuring ex Zounds member Nick Godwin, frontman of The Sound Adrian Borland, Julian Chatterley and SugarCubes, Shamen and Right Said Fred producer Brian Pugsley.

Welcome To The Monkey House/Dog (Not So Brave) 12" vinyl

Murder Violence Sex Divorce (Not So Brave) LP 12" vinyl - Cat No. NSB 008

In Every Life A Little Rain Must Fall/Vigilante inst. (Not So Brave) 12" vinyl

So Cruel (Play It Again Sam) LP 12" vinyl

Running Away/Life of Riley (Play It Again Sam) 12" vinyl single (1987) Cat No. BiaS 50

THE RELATIVES - with Andy Parker and Dave Corbett, Eric Mingus, Nick Godwin

Dead Letter File/My Time Again/Hackney Marshes* (Radio City Records) 12" vinyl
*The third track on the DLF single was of course Hackney Marshes and not Alice Brown, although, for the completist, Alice Brown was mysteriously included on the CD version of the album, erroneously labelled as Hackney Marshes, which was absent.

Walking In The Dark/Jim Morrison (Radio City Records) 7" vinyl single

Jim Morrison (Radio City Records) L.P vinyl and CD

Nick Godwin, portrait of an artist with a guitar

The 1990's

NEUROSTAR - featuring Steve Paradis, Tanya Dubois and Dominic Degrande.
Europa Radio Et La Grande Beat (BEV001) CD single 1999

The 2000's

STEVE LAKE WITH DOMINIC DeGRANDE

The Bacteria E.P. (BEV002) March 2001- 4 track CD accompanied by Dominic DeGrande of the brilliant I.K.E.

THEE EVIL PRESLEYS

Northampton General Lunatic Asylum (BEV003) February 2007 - 9 new songs from Steve on this Rock 'n' Roll long player