ABOUT HAYWIRE.

New CD "Carnival of Chaos" OUT NOW. 12 tracks.
£5 at gigs. Get in touch for postage details.
Next couple of gigs:
24 Sept Southampton w/ Discharge.

23 Oct Southampton with Subhumans.

7" compilation released: Our track "Keep Up the Noise" features on the compilation 7" called "Same day.........different shit". 11 tracks recorded by 6 bands in one day. Green marbled vinyl. Good quality 8 page booklet style cover on 160gsm.
£2.50 at gigs.
If you want one by post they are £3.50 inc p&p in uk (high postage prices are not our fault!).
Outside uk ask us. Email us on nath[at]haywirepunx.co.uk but replace [at] with the @ sign, ok?

We have a track on the Southern Animal Rights Coalition benefit CD "Until every cage is empty". Click here for more

You can listen to some of our noise at www.myspace.com/haywirepunx. A remix of one of the tracks from the unreleased Dec 04 session is now included.

Haywire are an anarchist punk rock band from the South of England. We started off in Weymouth, Dorset in the 80s and during the 90s relocated to Southampton.

We have featured on loads of compilation tapes in the past, as well as featuring on the first ever  A SCREAM FROM THE SILENCE LP released by Looney Tunes records. Tapewise we did "Blood Money", "Freedom?" and "Civilised?".  In more recent years we brought out two 7" EPs (see below).

So why haven't we released more?  Well, apart from primarliy being a live band, we have often had to focus on other issues: members moving, being homeless, having kids, being on police curfew, getting sent to prison, being more involved with other issues such as squatting, hunt sabbing, animal rights, anti-roads & anti-capitalist demos.  This is reflected in our music, as the lyrics reveal. 

We have gigged extensively, the majority being benefit gigs, and done somewhere in the region of 200 gigs at a rough guess!! (summer 2000)

Info about the split 7"

Info about the Mad Cow Disease 7" - some still available

Pictures for the sick

Can you not see it's all connected? The millions killed in wars, the animals vivisected, the starving in the third world, McDonalds burger bars, the victims of the slaugherhouse and the men who drive big cars? Playing god with animals, playing god with men their disregard for life manifests itself again. They sit so high in judgement but think how hard they'll fall...they'll never stop our struggle, they can't defeat us all.

Will the earth be inherited by the meek when all that power is used to stop us speak of the things in this world we see as unjust. I'm not saying we should, I'm saying we must, do what we can to right the wrongs - be it on the streets or in our songs...open people's eyes to the evil we see so they too will fight this insanity.....

Insanity of governments and multinationals who seek to exploit not only me and you but people and animals everywhere. Stop the talk, take action..... if you really fucking care.