Paranoid Visions


Paranoid Visions are a punk rock band from Dublin, Ireland who formed in 1982. They broke up in 1992, had reunion shows and eventually decided to reunite.
The band ran their own label, F.O.A.D., during the 1980s and 1990s. The label was based in Dublin and run by guitarist, P.J. as is the bulk of their current administration to date.
In 1987, the band started the FOAD2U2 campaign. These letters could be seen sprayed all over Dublin at the time. Their EP, I Will Wallow is a parody of U2's album, Boy, and their single "I Will Follow". The band went on hiatus in the early 1990s reforming for shows in 1996 with the Sex Pistols on the Filthy Lucre Tour and The Damned on their 25th anniversary tour of 2001. In 2005, Toxic Records released the compilation album Outside In, resulting in the band reforming for a few shows in support of the release. The reformation led to a creative burst and resulted in the Missing in Action EP. The critical and commercial success of the record continued the creative vein and between 2005 and 2017 the band released five new albums and 12 singles. The January 2009 release Beware of the God. was voted number 107 in the list of the most important Irish albums in Hot Press magazine, whilst the singles "Politician", "Treasure on the Wasteland" and "Outsider Artist" all hit the Irish top 10.
In 2013, the band formed an unlikely alliance with Crass vocalist Steve Ignorant, which started out life as a single track and led on to regular live performances, two albums and two singles. The band alongside Ignorant have played some of the biggest alternative festivals in the world including Chicago's Riot Fest, Canada's Amnesia Festival and the annual appearance at the UK's Rebellion Festival. At the latter, the band performed a set featuring Crass songs for the first time in seven years, alongside tracks by Flux of Pink Indians, Poison Girls, DIRT and Conflict, as well as their own material. The 2016 album, Now and Then...! featuring Steve Ignorant, entered the Irish charts at number 6.
In September 2025, the two-hour TV documentary film was premiered at Dublin's Sugar Club to a full house. Produced, directed and edited by Greg Clifford and Dave Clifford, the film captures the band's spirit in the face of adversity over four decades. Paranoid Visions serve as a prism through which the two independent film-makers look at the changing face of Ireland. The screening was followed by a question and answer session and then by a performance by Paranoid Visions.

Discography

• Destroy The Myths of Musical Progression
K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - August 1983 - with lyric sheet
• Blood in the Snow
K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1983
• Destroy / Blood
K7 - Bluurg Records - UK - 1984
Reissue of first two cassettes
• From the Womb to the Bucket
K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1984
K7 - Bluurg Records - ??? - UK - 1984 - *16 tracks with 12pp booklet
• Weird Weird World of Guru Weirdbrain *various artists
LP - Hotwire Records - HWLP8505 - IRL - 1985
• The Robot Is Running Amok EP
7" - FOAD Records/All The Madmen - FOAD 1 - 1986 - foc + insert
• Schizophrenia
LP - FOAD Records/All The Madmen - FOAD 2 - 1987
LP - FOAD Records/Revolver - FOAD 2 - 1988 - repress
• I Will Wallow
10" - FOAD Records/All The Madmen - FOAD 2U2 - 1987 - insert
12" - FOAD Records - FOAD 2U2 - unconfirmed
  • The repress on 12-inch was announced but its existence is unconfirmed.
• Autonomy // Social Security / Strange Girl
  • 7" - FOAD Records/Revolver - FOAD 5 - 1988 - foc + poster + lyric insert
• Reaganstein/Paranoid Visions - FOAD To You Fascist American Contra Scum
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  • 7" - FOAD Records/Revolver - FOAD 6 - 1988 -
folded double-printed A3-size sleeve
'Fake' split EP, Reaganstein is a P.V. alter ego the name rumoured to have been taken from the label run by Black Country/West Midlands anarcho punks Indecent Assault i.e. Reaganstein Records, launched in 1986 as a DIY label to release their own material. This has never been confirmed...
  • side one:
Reaganstein - Blood Empires
  • side two:
Paranoid Visions - Ignore It
• Autonomy EP + Reaganstein/Paranoid Visions *split single
split single 2x7" - FOAD Records - FOAD 5 + FOAD 6 - 1988
• Get Off The Map..
mini-LP - FOAD Records/Revolver - FOAD 1000. *1988 - green vinyl + insert.
Also exists as black vinyl test pressing.
• various artists - Comet Tape 3
K7 - Comet Records - COMTAPE 5 - IRL - 1988
  • tracks: The Other Half Lives
• various artists - ALF
LP - No Masters Voice - ??? - USA - 1989
  • track: The Feast
• Immature Recollections
K7 - FOAD Records - FOAD 9 - 1990
• The Dismal Abysmals :- Illegitimate Targets
K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1990?
Another P.V. alter ego
• Tripping The Live Disaster
K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1990?
• Politician EP
K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1991
• various artists - Dirt Behind the Daydream Vol.1
K7 - FOAD Records - FOAD 9T1 - 1991
tracks:
  • Answerable 2 Nun
  • Snuff Show
  • Look At Me
• various artists - Dirt Behind the Daydream Vol.2
K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1991
• Bollox To Christmas
K7 - FOAD Records - ??? - 1992?
• After the Faction
CD - AX-S Records - AXS95CD001 - 1995
Distributed via Southern, Cargo *and Sound Solutions.
• Live in Stab City
CD - April 2006
• The Triangular EP
2x7" - Wednesday Works - DAY 1 - IRL - 1996. *One disc is a flexi.
Archive recordings.
• Outside In. The Vinyl Years 1986-1989
CD - Toxic Records - ??? - 2005
• Missing In Action EP
CD-R - 2007
• 40 Shades of Gangreen
CD-R - March 2007
• 3R'S EP


CD - 2008


FOAD 0801
• The Treasure From The Wasteland EP - Lost Gems From Dublin '79 + '80


CD & 12" Vinyl


2008


FOAD 0802
tracks:
• Hate From The Cities Vol 1


CD & 12" Vinyl


2008


FOAD 0803
Paranoid Visions/Dirty Love/Moutpiece
PV tracks:
  • Sex Kills
  • Amhrán na Bhfiann
• Hate From The Cities Vol 2


CD & 12" Vinyl


2008


FOAD 0804


Paranoid Visions/Devilish Presley/Kidd Blunt
PV tracks:
  • Frantic World
  • Visions
• Hate From The Cities Vol 3


CD & 12" Vinyl


2008


FOAD 0805


Paranoid Visions/The Restarts/Excuses
PV track:
  • Shell To Sea
  • You're A Wanker
• Beware Of The God


12" Vinyl & CD


March 2009


FOAD 0902LP & FOAD 0902CD
• I Am The One


7" Vinyl & CD


2009


FOAD 0903 & FOAD 0903CD
• Strobelight And Torture


7" Vinyl & CD


2010


FOAD 10017in & FOAD 1001CD
• Black Operations In The Red Mist


Double CD


2010


Overground Records 124CD LC4593
• Der Election


CD


2011


FOAD 1101CD


'Politician 2011' from Der Election reached No.6 in the Irish Top 10 Physical Singles Charts for week ending 24th Feb 2011.


Outsider Artist ep:
  • outsider artist
  • prophet for the lost
  • control
Escape from the Austerity Complex


up the anti


if ignorance is bliss 7" single / CD


When...? LP and CD


Two Black Eyes 7" / CD


Across the Holocausts Flexi Disc


Cryptic Cross Words LP / CD


The Height of Ignorance 10" / CD ep


Now and Then...! LP / CD
Irish chart placing at #6


Rebellion
limited edition pink vinyl