Smeg and the Heads was a rock band fronted by Dave Lister during his teenage years. ("Timeslides") The band consisted of Lister on lead vocals, Gazza on the bass guitar and Dobbin on drums. Lister was going through a "Sham Glam" phase and wore outrageous sparkly outfits. Gazza was a neo-Marxist, nihilistic anarchist while Dobbin was a crazy, whacked out hippy. They had a very limited repertoire of interminable songs written by Lister, typified by "Om", a repetitious mess of noise that somehow got the band some gigs at the Aigburth Arms.