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!Action Pact! were a punk rock band, formed in 1981 with guitarist Wild Planet, bassist Dr. Phibes, and drummer Joe Fungus and George Cheex, who got the job because of "her courage to scream along with the band's songs." The band hailed from Stanwell, a small village underneath the flight-path at Heathrow Airport.

Both George and Joe were 15 years old and still attending school when the Heathrow Touchdown EP was released in October, 1981. Two of the band's contributions to the EP, "London Bouncers" and "All Purpose Action Footwear", got the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel. He played the single many times and wanted the band to record their first session, which they did on February 22nd, 1982. They recorded "People," "Suicide Bag", "Mindless Aggression", "Losers", and "Cowslick Blues".

The resulting demo tape caught the attention of the fledgling label Fall Out Records, a subsidi...