The Containers existed in London from the winter of 1978 until January 1980. Founder members James A Smith, Adrian 'Hots' Foster, and Stella Barker had all been in Smith's band The Inserts (1977), and were part of the Cambridge generation of musicians that gave the world The Soft Boys, The Users, and The Waves.
One day in the early spring of 1979, with the assistance of Robyn Hitchcock and Morris Windsor of the Soft Boys, the Containers recorded five demos in the legendary Spaceward Studios, the session engineered by Mike Kemp.
Stella left soon afterwards for pop stardom in the Bodysnatchers and The Belle Starrs, Smith released the minimalist album 'We Rule The Universe' by the Beach Bullies in the summer of 1980, and the demos languished in a box until this year...
