With little in the way of prospects in the UK seaside resort town of  Bournemouth, four friends Rob Banks, John the Baptiste, Dale Clarke and Harry Scrubber leave school and form a band,  Intestines.
The name is chosen because "It was the only thing we had in common".
They set about putting music to Scrubbers lyrics.With no formal musical know-how - Baptiste can play a few Beatles songs on guitar - it looks like an uphill struggle. They begin to develope their own style of raucous, throw away punk rock. 

First live performance. Discussions start with Alternative Capitalists record label about releasing some of the bands material. Dale Clarke leaves to take up a career with the Royal Air Force.

Sid Bladder joins on Bass guitar to replace Clarke. Sid can't play but is welcomed into the band for entertainment value alone.

The 'Inept Tour' begins with Intestines supported by five other local bands.After the one gig the 'tour' lives up to it's billing and collapses.

Life In a Cardboard Box, New Recruit and Anyway recorded at Studio 95.
Alternative Capitalists release a various artists cassette 'Illigitimi Non Carbonori' including live recordings of Intestines' Life In a Cardboard Box, Rich and Family at War.
The band release a Cassette Album 'Borborygmus' on their own label 'Inept Products'. It contains 15 live tracks of dubious sound quality.
(Borborygmus is the medical term for flatulance in the intestines)

Karen Aziz - wrote the words to Anyway

Sid Bladder quits the band. He goes to live in Amsterdam "Where the drugs are cheaper".

Another Cassette album release by Alternative Capitalists includes Intestines tracks Wet Paint, Repressed and Alternative Capitalist. 

Struggling to get high profile gigs the band hit upon the idea of  "Promoting" gigs under the Inept banner. They book the up and coming outfit Piranhas,who are touring to promote their new single Tom Hark, for next to nothing. Intestines are the support act. In the meantime Tom Hark rockets to number one in the UK charts and Intestines get to support the number one act in the country before nearly 1,500 people. Trouble erupts though. The venue was only licensed to hold 700 people and they sold many more tickets than that !

Intestines support chart hits the UK Subs at the Stateside Centre, Bournemouth.
Richard Jones is sacked from the band after relations between him and Scrubber become strained.
Life in a Cardboard Box single is released on Alternative Capitalist Label.

Steve 'Snatch' Morgan joins the band from The Rabies. His ability on the bass guitar is a major boost to the band.
Radio One air play for Life In a Cardboard Box.

Second release by the band on the Inept Product label. A double cassette album 'Borborygmus II' contains 30 tracks.
The band seems to be getting bogged down and the relationship between the band and Snatch breaks down.
Snatch starts missing rehearsals and is sacked. Intestines continue the theme of "If in doubt, sack the bassist".
Scrubber, Banks and Baptiste record two tracks Borborygmus and Label Madman at Studio 95 for what is intended to be the second single.

Determined to maintain the momentum and also breath fresh life into Intestines the decision is made to merge the three remaining Intestines with members of Illigitimate, who have become their regular support band.'Menace' joins on Rhythm guitar, Paul Hurst on Bass guitar and Mike Shaw on vocals introduces the unusual practice of having two main vocalists in the band.

The merger at first appears to have revived the dynamics of the band but cracks quickly start to show.Trouble follows a gig at Poole Technical College as Menace threatens to quit after walking off stage half way through the set. Paul Hurst pulls out of the next gig in Oxford. He is replaced on bass by Dave Flanagan of the U-Boats.

Paul Hurst and Menace quit the band. In the throws of disilusion both Shaw and Harry Scrubber announce their decisions to leave the band also.
Intestines play thir final gig on the 24th August. Scrubber, Banks, Baptiste and Dave Flanagan, joined on a couple of numbers by Mike Shaw, draw the curtain on the band.

Intestines Live At Poole Tech is released on the Inept Label.
Rob Banks and John Baptiste form a new band Butcher with Steve 'Snatch' Morgan.
They went on to release two singles.They continued until Snatch sadly died in 1982.
Scrubber and Shaw continued to work together on various projects until 1983. Scrubber reappeared briefly with Ten Tall Men in 1989.