Foetus

Foetus is a solo musical project of Australian JG Thirlwell. The project has had many similar names, each including the word "foetus".

The "members" of the project are aliases of Thirlwell; they include Frank Want, Phillip Toss, and Clint Ruin. Thirlwell occasionally collaborates with other artists, but doesn't consider them members of Foetus.

(Read more at Wikipedia.)

Links to Peel
On his 03 January 1981 (BFBS) show, Peel describes receiving a copy of the debut Foetus Under Glass single during a chance encounter with Jim Thirlwell while Christmas shopping on Oxford Street, London.

As noted by Peel author David Cavanagh, Foetus proved to be a “big favourite” of the DJ, under a constantly amended brand name. The writer describes the artist in the following terms:

"“… a one-man Throbbing Gristle from Melbourne … can be hostile, bestial and overwhelming … a sound akin to being head-butted in a Thirties jazz bar ….” (Good Night and Good Riddance, Faber & Faber, 2015, pg 352)"

On his 17 October 1984 show, Peel suggested that the latest Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel LP, 'Hole', was "timeless" and should sound pretty good in ten years, while also admitting that most of the records he was playing on the radio ten years earlier now sounded awful to him and he can’t believe he ever thought they were any good at all: "And I hope that's always the case."

Festive Fifty Entries

 * None

Sessions
One session only, recorded as You've Got Foetus On Your Breath. No known commercial release.

1. Recorded: 1982-12-18. First broadcast: 04 January 1983. Repeated: 19 January 1983
 * Today I Started Slogging Again / Clothes Hoist / Wash It All Off / Ignorance Is Bliss (Or Is It?)

Other Shows Played

 * Foetus Under Glass
 * 03 January 1981 (BFBS): Spite Your Face (7") Self Immolation WOMB S201


 * You've Got Foetus On Your Breath
 * 30 June 1981: Wash It All Off (7") Self Immolation
 * 30 July 1981: Wash It All Off (7") Self Immolation
 * 20 October 1981: Today I Started Slogging Again (LP - Deaf) Self Immolation
 * 12 October 1982: Dying With My Boots On (LP - Ache)
 * 21 October 1982: Gums Bleed (LP - Ache) Self Immolation
 * 02 December 1982: Gums Bleed (LP - Ache) Self Immolation
 * 06 February 1983 (BFBS): I`m Surrounded By Incompetence (album - Deaf) Self Immolation
 * 12 June 1983 (BFBS): Spite Your Face (7") Self Immolation
 * 10 September 1983 (BFBS): Exit The Man With Nine Lives (album - Ache) Self Immolation
 * 29 October 1983 (BFBS): I Am Surrounded By Incompetence (album - Deaf) Self Immolation
 * 17 April 1984: Guns Bleed (album - Ache) Self Immolation


 * Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
 * 25 September 1984: Lust For Death (LP – Hole) Self Immolation
 * 27 September 1984: Water Torture (album - Hole) Self Immolation (JP - "Ecstatically reviewed in the NME.)
 * 17 October 1984: Water Torture (LP – Hole) Self Immolation
 * 28 October 1985: The Only Good Christian Is A Dead Christian (v/a album - If You Can't Please Yourself You Can't, Please Your Soul) EMI
 * 03 November 1987: Ramrod (12") Self Immolation
 * 13 November 1987 (BFBS): Ramrod (12") Self Immolation
 * 18 November 1987: Ramrod (12") Self Immolation