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l-r adrian parkin : david ryley , alex newport , and alex newport david ryley adrian parkin nailbomb theory of ruin red love 1989 -- 1995 earache relativity columbia fudge tunnel
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fudge tunnel

fudge tunnel were a band formed in nottingham , england by alex newport , david ryley and adrian parkin .
after two critically acclaimed singles on pigboy records -lrb- `` fudge tunnel '' in 1989 , `` the sweet sound of excess '' in 1990 -rrb- , they signed to nottingham 's earache records .
their debut album was `` hate songs in e minor '' , which attracted a large amount of press interest after the original album artwork was confiscated by the nottingham vice squad .
fudge tunnel 's reputation was built around their massive guitar sound and ironic sense of humour , which did not always endear them to the music press .
two more albums were to follow in 1993 -lrb- `` creep diets '' -rrb- and 1994 -lrb- `` the complicated futility of ignorance '' -rrb- , as did a collaboration between sepultura 's max cavalera and fudge tunnel 's alex newport on the nailbomb project , which saw one studio album and one live album of their dynamo open air festival performance .
after the release of their third studio album , the band split up .
david ryley ran his label bgr records for a while .
adrian parkin played with tubesurfer until 1996 when they too split up , and then returned to being a quantity surveyor in bolton .
alex newport went on to pursue a successful career as a producer/mixer and now lives and runs his own studio in new york .
he has produced albums by at the drive-in , the mars volta , bloc party , city and colour , and many others .
he also formed the band theory of ruin , who released one album , `` counter culture nosebleed '' and the `` frontline poster child '' ep , both on escape artist records and currently is playing in red love with matt tong .
