Bio

Eu's Arse is a Hardcore Punk band formed in 1981 in Udine, North East of Italy. The band's name - shortcut for THE EUROPE'S ARSE - derives from the fact that Italy and Italians at the time were often pointed by other countries as "the ass of Europe". Their first period of activity belongs to the so called furious years of Italian Hardcore, from 1981 to 1985 they raged all over Italy sharing stages with bands like Disorder, Kaaos, Impact, Wretched, 5° Braccio and many more, and taking part to 1982's "Offensiva di primavera" festival at Milano's Virus, one of the first and most important Punk meetings that took place in Italy at the time. With their early line-up (consisting of Gian Luca "Killy" - bass, Stinky - drums, Totem - guitar and Steve - vocals) they recorded a debut 7 song EP called "Lo stato a bisogno di te? Bene, fottilo" ("The state needs you? Well, fuck it") in 1982 and a split 7" with IMPACT in 1983. Both these Ep's became absolute key-releases in early raw Punk/HC, being some of the first and better achieved efforts to reproduce a heavily Discharge-influenced sound in a rawer and utterly distorted way, becoming an often quoted source of inspiration of so called Crust/D-beat and Scandicore bands of the years to follow. Brazilian Hardcore/Thrash heavyweights RATOS DE PORAO have also included a devastating cover of the Eu's Arse anthem "Servitù militari" in their all covers album "Fejoada acidente". Eu's Arse went on hiatus in 1985, their last period of activity in the 80's had Bone (later in Upset Noise) on drums. They reformed back in 2003 keeping 3 members from the 80s line-up: Gian Luca - bass, Bone - drums, Steve (previously on vocals) - guitar and adding Richard of the long running anarco Punk band "Warfare" on vocals. With this line-up they went on for years playing shows all around and recording a full length LP/CD called "2008" having as special guests members from Toxical and Declino. In recent times, Steve has been replaced by Lorenzo "Tubo" from the sludge band Grime on guitar. Eu's Arse still stands as one of the most intense and representative outfits survived from Italy's 80s Punk/Hardcore scene and true pioneers of the most distorted D-beat Hardcore Punk that later forged a lot of noise/crust mongers that kept the flame burning.