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It's extraordinarily rare to find an album that has never been reissued on CD in the digital age.

Thanks to Aztec Records, The Indelible Murtceps' 'Warts Up Your Nose' gets the Digitally

Remastered CD treatment for the first time. Expanded with the addition of six bonus tracks -

including three songs recorded live at Sunbury 1972 - this title continues to explore the works of

the visionary and redoubtable Mike Rudd.

The musical journey that took Mike Rudd from R&B fanatic with 1960s garage punk champions

Chants R&B through the 1970s glory days of Spectrum, The Indelible Murtceps and Ariel onto

elder statesmanship of the Australian music scene, is surely one of the most remarkable in this

country. This is the man who gave the nation the enduring #1 hit single 'I'll Be Gone', a song that

has become so ingrained in the collective Australian psyche as to be accepted unconditionally and

universally, surely the sign of a truly great composition.

During the early 1970s, Spectrum was Australia's pre-eminent concert attraction, dispensing

flowing, esoteric progressive psych rock to enraptured audiences. In October 1971, singer /

guitarist / songwriter Mike Rudd decided to launch an alter-ego band in order to take advantage of

the more lucrative dance and pub circuit. Utilising the same musicians - Rudd, Bill Putt (bass), Lee

Neale (electric piano), Ray Arnott (drums) - The Indelible Murtceps presented a more danceable,

accessible sound and simply played for fun and profit.

'Warts Up Your Nose' is a supremely enjoyable album, bursting with witty, good-time odes to the

quaintly bizarre. If Frank Zappa posed the question "does humour belong in music?" then clearly

Rudd and the Murtceps agreed. Songs such as the jaunty hit single 'Esmeralda', 'Pie In The Sky',

'Blue Movies Made Me Cry', 'Hand Jive', 'Excuse Me Just One Moment' and the jazzy 'Stay Another

Day' retain a refreshing outlook to this day. Even the 12 minute 45 second 'Some Good Advice',

which features the Spectrum musical stamp, is deceptively simple in execution and outcome. And

all tip an evocative hat to one of Rudd's favourite songwriters, the great Randy Newman.

With Digitally Remastered sound by Gil Matthews, extra tracks, colour booklet and liner notes by

Ian McFarlane.