Effective period / Period of releases: 1980 - 2012

Members: Jeff Crowe, Martin Rees (3)

Little is known about Crawling Chaos except that it's a UK band from Tyneside featuring Martin Rees, Jeff Crowe, David Halton, Garry Clennell, Eddie Fenn and others. Initially Dave Cook & Steve Smith were members but they had left by the time of the first release, viz. the Sex Machine single on Factory (rel. 1980-06). That was followed by the Homunculus Equinox cassette released in late 1981 on the band's own Foetus Products label. Next came their first LP The Gas Chair on Factory Benelux (rel. 1982-01), which should have been titled The Gas Chair Clown as an anagram to Crawling Chaos. Both albums apparently stemmed from the same 1981 sessions at the band's own studio The Pits. The band recorded and released further albums, with Spookhouse collecting "the last ever recordings (1987)". For a while, they also ran their own club night in Newcastle.