Cardiff based four piece managed by Sean Mclusky. 

After months of noisy basement research and masquerading under the working title of “Luxinterior” out of the dissonance emerged a vaguely legible trajectory amidst the cracked locutions of audio toys and railings of cheap guitars. 

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Some months earlier… Ray-gun freak Chris Warlow responds to a crappy looking ad written on a bus-ticket placed by guitar noise fink Cez Mathias and trigger- happy drummer Jason Lorch and within months Acme Bass-o-matic Fudge Wilson completed the line up.

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By October 2000 the M.H.R aesthetic was realised, freeze dried and vacuum packed into a fully contoured manifesto. A spate of 20 minute gigs followed, a seething raw flurry of 200mph irregularities and disjointed rants were clean sprung onto audiences across the country.           

October 2001 saw the release of the debut single - (kill/summer/shit & Monobasic) on boobytrap records, a rabid freeze frame of overdriven distortion. Plus a string of live assaults saw the ball start rolling.

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Summer 2002 the band dived into the underbelly of London playing high up the bill at the Sonic Mook Experiment ‘Future Rock & Roll’ festival at the ICA and with a track featured on the album of the same name.

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A new EP (Luger 600/Pan Am/God Make Me Destroy Those Infidels) was released September 30th 2002 on Sonic Mook Experiment /  Blast First. Describing their sound as being “riddled with foot and mouth” and citing too many influences to name ranging from disgustingly no-fi skin graft obscurities to utter-gutter ripped raw 50’s dementia.

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The Martini Henry Rifles toured regularly in 2002 and the early part of 2003 with bands like Liars, Suicide, Terrashima, C64, Some Product, Rogers Sisters, Black Maddonas,

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The summer or 2003 saw a new track featured on the New Sonic Mook Experiment album ‘HOT SHIT’ through Mute Records, plus live shows and festival appearances. Also single INFOMERCIAL mixed by Eli Janney (ex Girls V Boys) and single SLASH THE SEATS were released to great reviews and lots of radio play.

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Debut album ‘SUPERBASTARD' released on FF Vinyl 2003