Step Inside a Worn Out Shoe / Heaven Knows. 
Double A side. Backbone Records ZBHIT1 1979

Produced and arranged by Steve Treatment. Engineered by Doug. Recorded 5th Feb 1979. 
Photocopied and folded sleeve.

Only TWO songs this time! Both great. "Worn Out Shoe" is classic Steve Treatment and "Heaven Knows" with its piano based sound is like later T Rex; only better!

• HEAVEN KNOWS (Juvenile Wrecks)
• STEP INSIDE A WORN OUT SHOE

Steve Treatment - Vocal, Guitar, Piano. 

Nick Welsh - Bass, Guitar, Drums, Backing Vocal.
Tara Gordon - Drums, Mouth Pops, Backing Vocal 

Steve Treatment & the Zodiac Fassions. 
Backbone Records ZBHIT1 1979

Produced & Arranged by ST. Recorded 1st February & July 26th 1979

Photocopied folded cover stapled to white sleeve with a photocopied A4 poster. "For further information just do your own thing!"

5 songs again... "Change of Plan" is a POP classic, and so are the rest. Sloppy playing (in a good way!) more trademark backwards guitar, Bolanesque phrasing, grunts and sighs galore! Too good to be true in fact!

• CHANGE OF PLAN
• HEAD OF A RAVEN
• CHOSEN TO GO
• TEMPEST FASHION BABY
• CRY IN ALPHABET SHARP

Steve Treatment - Guitar & Vocal.

Nick Welsh - Bass, Guitar, Backing Vocal. Tara Gordon - Drums, Backing Vocal. 
Mark Hayward - Guitar, Backing Vocal. Richard Welsh - Drums, Backing Vocal.
Christine Isherwood - Breathing

Steve Treatment & the NoMen - 2005 "A" Sided 45. 
Topplers Records Top Ten 003 2005

Produced and arranged by Steve Treatment and the NoMen. 
Recorded August/Sept 2005 at Topplers Home Studio and Steve's basement flat.

21" x 14" fold-out glossy sleeve. Black & White label "For more information, stare at the wall!"

5 songs again!!! ( six if you count the bonus track!) Has Steve mellowed with age? NO! This is still vibrant DIY punk-pop... The NoMen are the tightest band Steve has played with since the Swell Maps! Tracks range from short-sharp shocks to dreamy psychedelic trips! More backwards guitar, bontempi organ, vintage drum machines and general ramshackle weirdness... Still available from Topplers Records.

•  VANISH
• THE TREATMENT
• DON'T DO IT
• ECHO IN THE BACKSTREET
• THE TEA WENT COLD
• AARGH (bonus track)

Steve Treatment - Guitar & Vocal. 

George NoMan, Cal NoMan, Allan NoMan, Brian NoMan and Billy NoMan play guitars, drums, organs etc and sing. Lana WoMan adds vocals to 'Echo in the Backstreet'

After a few unsuccesful attempts at getting Steve up to Scotland to record, Topplers records arranged a weekend session for the NoMen and Steve Treatment to record a 7"  single in early 2004. Tickets were bought for Steve to travel to Glasgow and beer and pizzas were bought in bulk for the planned session! An early morning call to confirm Steve was ready went unanswered and a later call proved that he hadn't made it! The driver of the National Express coach seemingly didn't let him on for having a massive carry out as his only luggage! Topplers went on to release The Decider 7" which featured some of the NoMen, then a single by Jowe Head from Swell Maps who had played guitar on Steve's first single. Steve's single came out in 2005 and the NoMen reverted to their tried and tested method of recording backing tracks and sending them to Steve in London to add vocals.

REVIEWS...

WIRE 272 

Wow. How pleasant it is to know that Steve Treatment is still out there and recording.

His new one is a corker. With his mates, The NoMen, Mr Treatment shows he still has a strange and appealing handle on leftfield basement pop, although he seems a bit less relient on Marc Bolan as a spirit guide. Anyway, this is a great bowl of weevil from one of England's originals.

NICK CAIN, WIRE 272 

Steve Treatment & the No-Men 2005 'A' Sided 45 7" Late 70s DIY punk legend Steve Treatment is back with some Scots called the NoMen and WOW! is this good. Steve updates his T-Rex influenced sound without losing the magic heard in his three classic 7"s. Unlike a lot of "old timers," Steve Treatment hasn't lost it! A great combo of DIY punk, T-Rex, and psych. 

Scott Sorriano, S-S Records

Albums

All Dressed For Tomorrow
LP  Messthetics/Munster 2014

 A compilation of all the tracks from the 7" singles plus studio recordings from the same period. This 12" album has extensive inner notes and photos. Still available online from Munster Records and in good independent record stores.

• Taste Your Own Medicine
• Danger Zone
• The Hippy Posed Engrossment
• Hooked On A Trend
• Negative Nights
• Step Inside A Worn-Out Shoe
• Heaven Knows (Juvenile Wrecks)
• Change Of Plan
• Head Of A Raven
• Chosen To Go
• Tempest Fashion Baby
• Cry In Alphabet Sharp
• Carve My Name Upon Your Back
• Temperature Change (The World Is A Slag)
• Ingrowing Toenail
• Fireball XL5 (Cover Version)

Cassettes

THE TICKET INSPECTORS

Steve's band from the eighties. A slightly gentler sound on many of these tracks with bongos and flutes giving it a sixties psychedelic feel. These were limited edition home made cassettes with a mixture of studio and live recordings. There were many different versions with alternative photocopied covers available!  Many of the best tracks are on the Hyped 2 Death CD and the studio recordings are available online from Topplers records.

Steve Treatment - guitar and vocal. 

Kozzie - Bass. Bongo Chris - percussion. Helen Webster - flute.

PICKED APART ON TAPE
Topplers Cassette Box Set TV001 [2012]

This was a labour of love from Topplers Records and only 12 copies of the cassette box tape were made! There were 4 cassettes with over 100 songs of just Steve and his acoustic guitar. These were taken from the original cassettes that Steve used to send to Topplers Records and many of these recordings became the basis of his more polished recordings with the NoMen. There were many unusual cover versions and a lot of songs that never saw the light of day anywhere else. The box set also had a CD with 'band' versions of some tracks plus a couple of rare unreleased Steve Treatment recordings and it included a large colour booklet with handwritten sleevenotes from Steve. A cut down version of the box set was also available from Topplers as a two CD set... The CD version is available to stream on Spotify.

THE TICKET INSPECTORS CASSETTE
Studio Recordings 1989 - 1994 [Topplers 2013]

A 36 minute cassette in a cardboard folded sleeve with printed insert.  In 2012 Topplers Records started a cassette only label using Steve Treatments cassette archive as a starting point and Steve came up with the slogan "Join The Campaign To Bring Back Hiss!"

This release put all the studio recordings by the Ticket Inspectors into one coherant album. A follow up album with live recordings was planned but didn't see the light of day.

• New Youth Society Generator 04:19
• Calendar Karmi 04:19
• It Was Good While It Lasted 03:40
• Echo In The Back Street 03:45
• Front Page News 03:59
• They Loved You 01:49
• Cabinet of Disciples 07:44
• I Hate Reunions 02:06

Roscoe Vacant (with The NoMen & Steve Treatment)  
[Topplers 2013]

15 minute cassette in wraparound card sleeve. Roscoe Vacant is a passionate folk/punk artist from Ayrshire, Scotland who is a huge fan of Steve Treatment. Topplers Records got him into the studio with The NoMen and they came up with three covers of Steves songs that are 100 miles removed from the sound of the originals! Steve joins in on the version of 'New Youth Society Generator' and the second side of the cassette is Steve on his own with some strange new compositions recorded in his London flat.

•  Your Friends Are In The News
• Disillusioned Artist on the Basement Floor of Love 
• New Youth Society Generator 
• Plastic Lamp
• Cocooned
• Withdrawal Symtoms
• At a Later Date

Compact Discs

Steve's seventies recordings have been released on many CD compilations mainly on the Hyped2Death series of Messthetics albums. Hyped2Death also released a double CDR of all Steve's recordings including The Ticket Inspectors and some later stuff from the nineties. This formed the basis of the 2015 Hyped2Death/Munster LP "All Dressed for Tomorrow" which is still available.

Topplers Records started working with Steve in 2003 and their early recordings were released as "Clear Visions of Grandeur" in 2005 as a limited edition CD. Other Toppler albums were released in small quantities on CDR. These included the original Picked Apart on Tape which was just Steve on acoustic guitar running through his new songs. This was later expanded into the four cassette box set of acoustic recordings. There were Christmas albums released each year since 2003, usually with the same tracks but adding that years new Christmas song.

"20 Golden Greats" was the best of Steve's recording with the NoMen on Topplers including his first releases from 2003 right up to his final recording from 2015.

CLEAR VISIONS OF GRANDEUR.
Topplers CD 2005.

A collection of the first two years of Steve's recordings both solo and with The NoMen on Topplers Records.

• You're Gonna Recieve The Treatment 
• Carve Your Name Upon My Back 
• Letter To The World 
• Boy Of 14 
• Fast Wrist 
• Genuine Murderer 
• The Keys To Talgarth Road 
• Go Away 
• Negative Nights 
• The Hangman 
• Vanish 
• The Treatment 
• Don't Do It 
• Echo In The Backstreet 
• The Tea Went Cold 
• Christmas In October (Parts 1 & 2) 
• Take A Fix For Christmas 
• Santa Posed Engrosement!

25 "A" Sides + Your Friends are in the News.
Hyped2Death double CD 2006

CD#1 :25 A Sides

• Danger Zone
• Taste Your Own Medicine
• Negative Nights 
• The Hippie Posed Engrossment
• Hooked On A Trend
• Step Inside A Worn-Out Shoe
• Heaven Knows (Juvenile Wrecks)
• Change Of Plan
• Head Of A Raven
• Chosen To Go
• Tempest Fashion Baby
• Cry In Alphabet Sharp
• Carve My Name Upon My Back
• Temperature Change (The World Is A Slag)
• Ingrowing Toenail
• You're Going To Receive Treatment
• Disillusioned Writer On The Basement Floor Of Love
• New Youth Society Generator
• Yeah Yeah
• Boy Of 14
• The Hippie Posed Engrossment 2
• Hooked On A Trend 2
• Negative Nights 2
• Danger Zone 2 

 CD#2 : All Dressed For Tomorrow

• Your Friends Are In The News
• Wild And Sparkle
• Ignorant Eyes
• New Youth Society Generator
• Your Friends Are In The News
• Hangman
• All Dressed For Tomorrow
• It Was Good While It Lasted
• Pavement Stones 93
• Carve My Name Upon Your Back
• Cabinet Of Disciples
• Calendar Karmi 
• The World Is Blue
• Seven Day Psalm 
• It Was Good While It Lasted
• I Hate Reunions
• Echo In The Backstreet
• Sparkle Introduction

Notes : From the Hyped To Death web site: 140 minutes of brilliant DIY'n'roll! Including all of Steve's singles (1977-1979), plus later highlights of his incredibly colourful career, including almost all of the songs that were headed for Steve's never-released LP. 

"All my songs are 'A' sides." - S.T.