As far as I know this is the only recording by Ed Banger & The Nosebleeds. I may have thought it’s some sort of terrible punk pastiche when it came out; it certainly sounds like one.

But it sold 10,000 copies and earned them a TV appearance as punk became the tabloid flavour of the week in late ’77.

Yet they have earned a place in punk history because when the band split in half after this 1977 single – Ain’t Bin To No Music School b/w Fascist Pigs – the replacement members went on to become even more famous than the departed Ed Banger (aka Eddie Garrity) and guitarist Vini Reilly.

The new guitarist was Billy Duffy, who would join Theatre Of Hate before forming The Cult, and the new singer was a Manchester scenester called Steven Morrissey, who would… well, we all know what he did next.

They only played two gigs together, and neither of them played on this, The Nosebleeds’ first and last single, but they have earned legendary, if not mythical status in the annals of punk history.

The Nosebleeds’ birth was quite interesteing too. Their original name was Wild Ram and they were playing perfuctory pub rock until the night in June 1976 when The Sex Pistols came to Manchester.

Garrity was working as a roadie for Slaughter & The Dogs, supporting the Pistols alongside Buzzcocks, and legend has it that when trouble broke out at the gig he was hurt, along with a friend, and an onlooker referred to them mockingly as “Headbanger and Nosebleed.”

The incident (if it really happened) prompted a double name change – Eddie to Ed Banger, and the band to The Nosebleeds.

Despite their short-lived cult status, Garrity reformed the band in 2013 with ex-Slaughter & The Dogs drummer Brian ‘Mad Muffet’ Grantham, Steve Wilson on bass and Al Crosby on guitar.

They’ve released two albums since then, while Garrity – now Edweena Banger – released a “glam rock odyssey” called Diamond Rocks this year.