Yardstick

Yardstick were a sludgecore band formed in Cumbria, consisting of Kevin Young (vocals), Ian O'Hare (guitar), Grease (bass) and Jim Harley (drums). Yardstick went from playing their punk rock Black Sabbath sludge to the converted in the ledgendary Three Tuns in Whitehaven to becoming a firm favourite of John Peel. On stage was where the band unleashed their potential with a penchant for using feedback as not only an instrument but also as a between song bowel loosener. 
Yardstick released an album Self-Relaxation for the Insane on SMR Records in 1992, had two unreleased singles The Ladder/Bonesaw on Sycophant Records and a split single with US band Dumpster Juice on Dementia Records Silenced in 1993. The band split in 1993.
==Links to Peel==
Peel first played Yardstick in the spring of 1992 on his radio programme. Further material from the group including a session recorded for his show were played during 1992. 
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: 1992-06-09. First Broadcast: 03 July 1992. Repeated: 28 August 1992
*Blind Eye / Brutal Deluxe / Double Zero / Twenty Three
==Other Shows Played==
;1992
*24 April 1992: Cleanse (LP – Self Relaxation For The Insane ) SMR Records
*03 May 1992 (BFBS): Cleanse (album – Self Relaxation For The Insane) SMR
*09 May 1992: 'Post-Murder Tension' (LP - Self Relaxation For The Insane ) (SMR Records)
*10 May 1992 (BFBS): Tracers (LP -Self-Relaxation for the Insane) SMR Records
*15 May 1992: 'Tracers (LP-Self Relaxation For The Insane)' (SMR)
*23 May 1992: Cleanse (LP - Self Relaxation For The Insane) SMR
*24 May 1992 (BFBS): Guzzler (album - Self Relaxation For The Insane) SMR
*30 May 1992: Death Row Groupie (album - Self Relaxation For The Insane) SMR
*26 June 1992: 'Death Row Groupie (LP-Self Relaxation For The Insane)' (SMR) 
==External Links==
*Last FM
*Discogs
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