Named after an unfortunate medical affliction involving most of your vitals falling out of your body through your rectum, Prolapse have had a live reputation befitting the nature of their name. Linda Steelyard, one of the band’s two singers, was hired on originally as a groupie who would throw oranges at the band as they played; when the other recruit didn’t showw up, they brought Steelyard on stage instead. Without that one gesture, the maelstrom that was Prolapse’s live show might never have existed.

On record, there’s a tension between Steelyard and the angry-sounding Scotsman who provides the other lead vocals, Mick Derrick. They often sound as if they’re competing for airtime, their vocals weaving in and out of the mix. Apparently, the live show exploits this tension to the nth degree; reports indicate that the two singers not only shout at each other on stage, but that eventually the two go at it full throttle, literally beating the shit out of each other while the other members of the band try not to get in the way. All this despite the fact that the two seem to get along fine when not in a live setting; in an interview the two seemed almost bemused at their vicious tendencies on stage.

Unfortunately for the rest of the world, the band called it quits after three albums and over half a decade together. Derrick still makes his living as an archeologist (!) while Steelyard is now a reporter for the Leicester Mercury (!). No word on whether they call each other up occasionally to shout verbal abuse at each other lovingly.