Bush Tetras

Bush Tetras are an American post-punk No Wave band from New York City, formed in 1979. They are best known for the 1980 song "Too Many Creeps", which exemplified the band's sound of "jagged rhythms, slicing guitars, and sniping vocals". Although they did not achieve mainstream success, the Bush Tetras were influential and popular in the Manhattan club scene and college radio in the early 1980s. New York's post-punk revival of the 2000s was accompanied by a resurgence of interest in the genre, with the Tetras' influence heard in many of that scene's bands.
The Bush Tetras formed in 1979, and soon solidified with a lineup of Cynthia Sley (vocals), Pat Place (guitar), Laura Kennedy (bass) and Dee Pop (drums); vocalist Adele Bertei and guitarist Jimmy Joe Uliana were brief early members. Place had previously been the original guitarist and a founding member of the no wave band the Contortions, though the Tetras sound was less frantic and disjointed, and she had also appeared in some of Vivienne Dick's movies.
The band was named after a tiny African primate the band found very cute called "bush babies", and a kind of fish the band liked called a "neon tetra" (taking one word from each of those names). The band thought the name sounded "tribal".
==Links to Peel==
Peel played the band's debut single, 'Too Many Creeps' in November 1980. Further material from the group were played by the DJ, including revisiting the band in later years.
==Shows Played==
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*25 November 1980: Too Many Creeps (7") 99 99-02
*29 November 1980 (BFBS): Too Many Creeps (7") 99 99-02
;1981
*21 June 1981 (BFBS): Things That Go Boom In The Night (7") Fetish
*21 June 1981 (BFBS): Cold Turkey (v/a album - Start Swimming) Stiff America
*30 June 1981: Das Ah Riot (7" - Things That Go Boom In The Night) Fetish
*27 July 1981: Things That Go Boom In The Night (7") Fetish 
*02 August 1981 (BFBS): Things That Go Boom In The Night (7") Fetish 
*30 November 1981: Can't Be Funky (12" EP - Rituals) Fetish
*09 December 1981: Punch Drunk (LP – Start Swimming) Stiff America
*15 December 1981: Rituals (12") Fetish
;1982
*06 January 1982 (BFBS): Cowboys In Africa (12" EP - Rituals) Fetish 
*14 February 1982 (BFBS): Can't Be Funky (12" EP - Rituals) Fetish
;1983
*06 February 1983 (BFBS): Cowboys In Africa (12" EP - Rituals) Fetish
;1984
*25 January 1984 (BFBS): Can't Be Funky (12" EP - Rituals) Fetish 
;1987
*20 July 1987: Things That Go Boom In The Night (7") Fetish
;1991
*14 July 1991: Cold Turkey (LP - Start Swimming) Stiff
;2004
*04 February 2004: 'Too Many Creeps (7")' (99)
*10 February 2004: 'Things That Go Boom In The Night (7")' (Fetish)
*07 April 2004: 'Snakes Crawl (LP- Boom In The Night)' (Roir)
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Bandcamp
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