In 1983 King Kurt hit the Top 40 with ‘Destination Zululand’ on Stiff Records.  They’d already built up a manic following at their riotous gigs, famously strewn with all sorts of muck thrown both at and from the audience whilst also offering haircuts and drinking competitions!  Their mission was to have fun in dour times.

Starting out on Thin Sliced Records with the ‘Zulu Beat’ 7” in numerous vinyl editions, ‘Smeg’ soon replaced the original singer Jeff Harvey and the band began hamming it up wearing dresses and having food fights.  They signed to Stiff Records and Dave Robinson’s video of ‘Destination Zululand’ showing their cartoonish tongue-in-cheek style helped propel them to the top 40.

Musically a bizarre mix of roots rock-a-billy, funk, African rhythms and pop, with their own unique craziness and humour, they followed up with Top 50 singles the re-recorded ‘Mack The Knife’ and ‘Banana Banana’.  Regular TV shows increased their notoriety as the rat-fixated nutty mohican kids of rock’n’roll. 

The album has been remastered from the original analogue tapes. 

The bonus DVD contains all their promo videos plus additional grainy historical archive footage from that time. 

It comes packaged in a 6-panel, all-card digi-pack together with an 8-page booklet with the King Kurt story. 

This is the ultimate, definitive King Kurt, and the only authorised release from the original line-up!

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