Although The Royal Family And The Poor formed in 1978 it took six years for an album to be released. By that time the band consisted of  Mike Keane; an uncompromising talent who obviously benefitted from having Peter Hook on hand for production duties. The 1980 releases included here as bonuses are uncontrolled noise; rallying cries against politics set to industrial background which made Cabaret Voltaire’s early material sound like easy listening.