The Jackoffs started off as a solo avant-guard project of H.J.P. He would play outdoor gigs at parks and playgrounds with a guitar and a looping tracks played off his tape recorder. Eventually his school friends Cortez Grungeo, Jacob Rattcliff and James Robertson would occasionally appear with him playing broken ukuleles, pump organs and sometimes violins. After becoming sick of school they decided to tour New Zealand with an experimental film they made and play music along with it. The film showed scenes of boys from their school masturbating over each other so they titled it The Jackoffs. During the tour they would often get into fights with the audience as many of the gigs were at small town bars and many found it to be offensive. They were taken to court over the 'pornography' elements
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| - The Jackoffs started off as a solo avant-guard project of H.J.P. He would play outdoor gigs at parks and playgrounds with a guitar and a looping tracks played off his tape recorder. Eventually his school friends Cortez Grungeo, Jacob Rattcliff and James Robertson would occasionally appear with him playing broken ukuleles, pump organs and sometimes violins. After becoming sick of school they decided to tour New Zealand with an experimental film they made and play music along with it. The film showed scenes of boys from their school masturbating over each other so they titled it The Jackoffs. During the tour they would often get into fights with the audience as many of the gigs were at small town bars and many found it to be offensive. They were taken to court over the 'pornography' elements
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| - The Jackoffs started off as a solo avant-guard project of H.J.P. He would play outdoor gigs at parks and playgrounds with a guitar and a looping tracks played off his tape recorder. Eventually his school friends Cortez Grungeo, Jacob Rattcliff and James Robertson would occasionally appear with him playing broken ukuleles, pump organs and sometimes violins. After becoming sick of school they decided to tour New Zealand with an experimental film they made and play music along with it. The film showed scenes of boys from their school masturbating over each other so they titled it The Jackoffs. During the tour they would often get into fights with the audience as many of the gigs were at small town bars and many found it to be offensive. They were taken to court over the 'pornography' elements in the film but were left with only a warning after it turned out all the actors were James Robertson and Jacob Rattcliff. This gave them more press and noriaty than they expected. They were quickly signed to an underground punk label with no name. H.J.P and Cortez Grungeo quickly wrote three songs that became their first single 'Blacky Eats Bella'. They did a small tour to promote this at local school halls and then quickly wrote and released a second single 'I Want To Eat Your Baby, Baby'. With a gathering fan-base they continued to tour New Zealand's small towns playing country classics as experimental punk songs while writing their first album. H.J.P came up with ten new songs. The album was a moderate success in New Zealand at the time selling 210,101 copies. They quickly became household names and praised for their fearless experimentation. After a sold out tour they quickly returned to the studio and created a more complex sounding album that relied on strong song structure base. The result was the concept album 'Chip The Automatic Human And His Glorious Downfall'. This was the first time they showed frustration at the recording industries strict rules on number of songs per album. They had created fourteen songs but were only allowed to release ten. The album was more accessible than their first and sold 372,310 in New Zealand. At the conclusion of their New Zealand tour they decided to take their music to Europe.
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