Rib Donor was the first track Peel played on this 7/5/93 show and, as was generally his style, he went straight into the record without any mention of who it was by. So, as I listened to the brewing atmosphere of malevolence and the full-blooded shouts of someone haranguing an undesirable neighbour with implications that they are either a murderer or a pedophile, I found myself thinking that it sounded a little like Therapy? in one of their murder metal tracks. But it was actually the work of Gloucestershire’s Wayne Travis, aka Oil Seed Rape, who had started the project as a one-man outfit, before expanding it into a quartet.
In this live video from November 1992, Travis introduces Rib Donor as being a song about a sweet old lady who makes us scones. A throwaway line maybe, but it conjures the image of an angry woodcutter, leading a group of forest folk to harangue the witch’s house in the weeks before Hansel and Gretel go there. (Song starts at 2:55).
Despite the thrashing and the shouting, I’ll happily concede that Rib Donor is quite a slight track to put on to the metaphorical mixtape. Ultimately, as with Slugger by Tsunami from the same show, it owes its place here to me thinking that it was someone else. There’s a case to be made that in Rib Donor, Oil Seed Rape sounded more like Therapy? than Therapy? did themselves at this time. At least, that was what I would have been feeling…
Video courtesy of planetfurball.
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