Autumn Poison were an English anarcho-punk band from Southend on Sea, Essex, that existed between 1980 and 1985. Originally called Enola Death, a number of musicians in the Southend area passed through the group, including Julian Ware Lane and Chris Kemp of 86 Mix, Kevin Hickling, Steve Palmer, James Perry and Wayne Avrilli, though the 'core members' were Graham Burnett (previously of Stripey Zebras), Sheena Fulton and Paul Brown. The band played a number of gigs in the Southend area, often in conjunction with the like-minded Kronstadt Uprising, many of which were benefits for organisations such as Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and local animal rights groups. The name of the band was derived from the Japanese term for the radiation sickness that followed the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, following correspondence between Burnett and Toxic Graffity (sic) fanzine editor Mike Diboll.
Autumn Poison were part of the cassette culture movement, releasing two cassette albums for New Crimes fanzine, although did not release any vinyl until 1994, when Brown and Burnett reformed the group to record a track for the Bullshit Detector Volume 4 compilation put together by Resistance Productions, a small record label based in Switzerland.
Brown and Burnett also occasionally collaborated under the name of Love Over Law after Autumn Poison disbanded.
Famous quotes containing the words autumn and/or poison:
“He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly fitting as a tree its bark. Now our garments are typical of our conformity to the ways of the world, i.e., of the devil, and to some extent react on us and poison us, like that shirt which Hercules put on.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)