Picture Frame Seduction

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Picture Frame Seduction is a "hardcore" punk rock band from Haverfordwest, Wales, UK. The band's influences included their peers of the day Charged GBH and Discharge. With many other bands of the time like The Varukers, they pioneered the hardcore punk rock scene in the United Kingdom in the early to mid 1980s, and signed with the Mansfield punk rock label Rot Records.

After a number of UK tours and releasing various singles, albums and compilations on various UK punk rock labels, the band split in 1987.

Hardcore punk rock bands from the USA cite Picture Frame Seduction (also known as PFS) as an influence along with The Exploited, Discharge, GBH, The Varukers, External Menace and Oi Polloi. PFS had an indifferent effect on the worldwide punk scene and also had a checkered history, considered 'persona non grata' at the majority of Welsh venues of the day. They caused further controversy in 1987 by releasing Try (With a Little Help from My Friends by The Beatles) as a charity record. Michael Jackson owned the rights to the piece, and his representatives refused permission for the release of the PFS version. The release occasioned Daily Star and Today newspaper headlines in the UK.

Guitarist Mark Bozier died in 1990 at the age of 26, and the band reformed in 2003, releasing further material in CD and vinyl formats.

[edit] Releases

Demolition Blues Compilation 1982
I'm Good Enough For Me 7" single 1984
The Hand of the Rider 12" album 1985
A Kick up the Arse Compilation 1986
The End of an Era Compilation 1987
What you doing about that hole in your head Compilation 1989
What's that Hardcore Noise? CD : 2003
Sex War CD album - CultJam Records: 2005
Fistful of hope CD Compilation: 2005
Stop The Bloody Slaughter - Grand Theft Audio Records USA : Retro CD album ; Nov 2006
Skateboarding down Merlins Hill with Penny Harry - CultJam Records ; split cd album ; December 2006