The Insane

The Insane was 80's Punk band from Wigan, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. The original lineup featured Simon 'Psycho' Middlehurst on guitar (later in Flux Of Pink Indians and Hotalacio) and Dave "Bambi" Ellesmere on drums (he was also to be seeen in Blitzkrieg, Discharge, Doctor And The Crippens, Flux Of Pink Indians, and Disgust). Later lineups included 'Dr' Dean 'Mitch' Mitchell on vocals, Trev Aindow (Mayhem / Blitzkrieg) on bass, and Gary 'Gaz' Sumner (also Mayhem and Blitzkrieg). Middlehurst had previously played in the unrecorded Punk band Sammy And The Skunx, who "did Garage/Punk versions of old Rock classics but with new and stupid lyrics!", and the lineup was very young at the start, with some of the group having only just left school. The band were rank amateurs, with Tina utilising the one-finger down the neck method made infamous by Crass. The band gigged for a year or so before making their vinyl debut with a track called 'Nuclear War', which appeared on the 1981 compilation LP Ten From The Madhouse. By this time the band had undergone a series of lineup changes. Around this time (May 1981) Bambi helped out playing drums for Discharge and then went onto join Flux with The Insane's other founding member, Middlehurst. So at this point, The Insane was actually defunct.

Politics 7'' (1981)

01 - Politics

02 - Dead And Gone

03 - Last Day

Why Die! 7'' (1982)

01 - Why Die!

02 - War & Violence

El Salvador 7'' (1982)

01 - El Salvador

02 - Chinese Rocks

03 - Nuclear War

Live In Europe 1982 (1993)

01 - Last Day

02 - Berlin Wall

03 - El Salvador

04 - Chatter

05 - Chinese Rock

06 - Urban Decay

07 - Politics

08 - Bad Brains

09 - The Whole World Is Going Insane

10 - Why Die!

11 - War And Violence

12 - Nuclear War

Demo 1981 & More... (2017)

01 - Last Day

02 - Smoke Without Fire

03 - We Don't Wanna Fight Your War

04 - Pointless Ambitions

05 - Rule Britannia

06 - One In Three Million

07 - Demolition Girl

08 - You're Dead Now

09 - 3 Minute Warning

10 - Dead And Gone

11 - Politics

12 - El Salvador

13 - Whole World's Going Insane

14 - Nuclear War

15 - Why Die

16 - War & Violence

17 - Berlin War

The Punk Collection 81-85 (2026)

01 - El Salvador

02 - Chinese Rocks

03 - Nuclear War

04 - Politics

05 - Dead & Gone

06 - Last Day

07 - Why Die?

08 - War & Violence

09 - Berlin War

10 - Nuclear War (Version '81)

11 - Whole World's Going Insane

The Skeptix & The Insane

Vendetta/Berlin War 7'' (1984)

01 - The Skeptix - Vendetta

02 - The Insane - Berlin War

The Insane & Blitzkrieg

The Punk Collection (1999)

01 - The Insane - El Salvador

02 - The Insane - Chinese Rocks

03 - The Insane - Nuclear War

04 - The Insane - Politics

05 - The Insane - Dead & Gone

06 - The Insane - Last Day

07 - The Insane - Why Die?

08 - The Insane - War & Violence

09 - The Insane - Berlin Wall

10 - The Insane - Nuclear War

11 - The Insane - Whole World's Going Insane

12 - Blitzkrieg - The Future Must Be Ours

13 - Blitzkrieg - Lest We Forget

14 - Blitzkrieg - Abuse Of Power

15 - Blitzkrieg - Destruction

16 - Blitzkrieg - Warfares Heroes

17 - Blitzkrieg - Conscie

18 - Blitzkrieg - Land Of Failure

19 - Blitzkrieg - No Comp

20 - Blitzkrieg - Why Die

21 - Blitzkrieg - Raging On

22 - Blitzkrieg - Death, Poverty And Despair

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