Test Dept.

Test Dept.: Beating The Retreat (Some Bizzare)

Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 18 August 1984

THE WORK of Test Dept – and this is work, for sure, not playing – is inextricably cabled to a rhetoric of 'action'. ...

Test Dept.: Metal Gurus.

Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, October 1984

Test Dept. Cracked Open. Blow Torch — Mick Sinclair ...

Test Dept.: Freedom is Frightening

Interview by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 19 April 1986

On the abandoned building sites of Britain, a new life is stirring. TEST DEPT. sound the charge on scrap metal and bugle, waging a war ...

Performance Art: Pop 'n' Fresh

Overview by Mark Dery, L.A. Weekly, 21 April 1988

THE CHAIN linking performance art and pop music is 75 years long this March. It's a tangled, meandering chain, stretching all the way from Italian ...

Test Department: Subterrania, London

Live Review by Ngaire Ruth, Melody Maker, 5 January 1991

A GUY strolls in playing bagpipes over the hymn 'Jerusalem'. Two more people arrive and pick up huge bass drums, the type you'd expect to ...