Paranoid Visions are a punk rock band from Dublin, Ireland who formed in 1982. They broke up in 1992, had reunion shows and eventually decided to reunite. The band ran their own label, F.O.A.D., during the 80s and 90s. The label was based in Dublin and run by guitarist, P.A. as is the bulk of their current administration to date. In 1987, the band started the FOAD2U2 campaign. These letters could be seen sprayed all over Dublin at the time. Their EP, I Will Wallow is a parody of U2's album, Boy, and their single "I Will Follow". In. The band went on hiatus in the early 1990s reforming for shows in 1996 with the Sex Pistols on the Filthy Lucre Tour and the Damned on their 25th anniversary tour of 2001. In 2005 Toxic Records released the compilation "Outside in" resulting in the band reforming for a few shows in support of the release.The reformation led to a huge creative burst and resulted in the "Missing in Action" ep. The critical and commercial success of the record continued the creative vein and between 2005 and 2017 the band released 5 new albums and 12 singles. The January 2009 release Beware of the God. was voted number 107 in the list of the most important Irish albums in Hot Press magazine, whilst the singles Politician, Treasure on the Wasteland and Outsider Artist all hit the Irish top 10. In 2013 the band formed an unlikely alliance with Crass vocalist Steve Ignorant which started out life as a single track and led on to regular live performances, 2 albums and 2 singles. The band alongside Steve have played some of the biggest alternative festivals in the world including Chicago's Riot Fest, Canada's Amnesia festival and the annual appearance at the UK's Rebellion Festival, at which the band performed a set featuring Crass songs for the first time in 7 years alongside tracks by Flux of Pink Indians, Poison Girls, DIRT and Conflict as well as their own material. The 2016 the album "Now and Then...!" featuring Steve Ignorant entered the Irish charts at number 6..
Discography
• Destroy The Myths of Musical Progression K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - August 1983 - with lyric sheet • Blood in the Snow K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1983 • Destroy / Blood K7 - Bluurg Records - UK - 1984 Reissue of first two cassettes • From the Womb to the Bucket K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1984 K7 - Bluurg Records - ??? - UK - 1984 - *16 tracks with 12pp booklet • Weird Weird World of Guru Weirdbrain *various artists LP - Hotwire Records - HWLP8505 - IRL - 1985
• Reaganstein/Paranoid Visions - FOAD To You Fascist American Contra Scum *
7" - FOAD Records/Revolver - FOAD 6 - 1988 -
folded double-printed A3-size sleeve 'Fake' split EP, Reaganstein is a P.V. alter ego the name rumoured to have been taken from the label run by Black Country/West Midlands anarcho punks Indecent Assault i.e. Reaganstein Records, launched in 1986 as a DIY label to release their own material. This has never been confirmed...
side one:
Reaganstein - Blood Empires
side two:
Paranoid Visions - Ignore It • Autonomy EP + Reaganstein/Paranoid Visions *split single split single 2x7" - FOAD Records - FOAD 5 + FOAD 6 - 1988
Double pack consisting of the above two singles.
• Get Off The Map.. mini-LP - FOAD Records/Revolver - FOAD 1000. *1988 - green vinyl + insert. Also exists as black vinyl test pressing. • various artists - Comet Tape 3 K7 - Comet Records - COMTAPE 5 - IRL - 1988
tracks: The Other Half Lives
• various artists - ALF LP - No Masters Voice - ??? - USA - 1989
track: The Feast
• Immature Recollections K7 - FOAD Records - FOAD 9 - 1990 • The Dismal Abysmals :- Illegitimate Targets K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1990? Another P.V. alter ego • Tripping The Live Disaster K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1990? • Politician EP K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1991 • various artists - Dirt Behind the Daydream Vol.1 K7 - FOAD Records - FOAD 9T1 - 1991 tracks:
Answerable 2 Nun
Snuff Show
Look At Me
• various artists - Dirt Behind the Daydream Vol.2 K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1991 • Bollox To Christmas K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1992? • After the Faction CD - AX-S Records - AXS95CD001 - 1995 Distributed via Southern, Cargo *and Sound Solutions. • Live in Stab City CD - April 2006 • The Triangular EP 2x7" - Wednesday Works - DAY 1 - IRL - 1996. *One disc is a flexi. Archive recordings. • Outside In. The Vinyl Years 1986-1989 CD - Toxic Records - ??? - 2005 • Missing In Action EP CD-R - 2007 • 40 Shades of Gangreen CD-R - March 2007 • 3R'S EP
CD - 2008
FOAD 0801 • The Treasure From The Wasteland EP - Lost Gems From Dublin '79 + '80
