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BASED IN Manchester, AIIZ bounded into life with a 12" single 'No Fun After Midnight' followed quickly and cheaply by the appearance of a nine-track album ‘The Witch Of Berkeley’ (Polydor, 1980) recorded live in their home town on an eight-track machine. Not unnaturally the recording quality is pretty naff but the energy level is well exciting. Polydor, who had saved a wad of dosh by recording the project live, invested their cash in putting the band out on the road as support to Girlschool and Black Sabbath on nationwide UK tours in 1980. Despite their bluster and posing, AIIZ made slow progress and by 1982 the band had all but split up with only guitarist Gary Owen and his dinky stackheeled boots managing to resurface elsewhere as a member of Tytan. DEREK OLIVER