Janitors review, 1986

Born with a Tail (or The Guitar Shines out of Their Behinds)

Can’t remember why these blokes didn’t make my metal book. Not sure why I didn’t keep their first couple 7-inch 45s, either. The band didn’t last long, and my interest lasted shorter; two more brief EPs and a 1988 full-length I never knew about until now, and that’s it. And oh yeah, if the “incursion of artless Anglos giving their dying nation the what-for” sounds cryptic; consult John Robb’s Death to Trad Rock.

Village Voice, 4 November 1986