Bite The Wax Tadpole has been played on NTS in shows including Lung Dart, featured first on 12 October 2020. Songs played include Touched By The Nail-Scarred Hands.

Formed by Mark Dery and Darren Smith in 1985, Bite the Wax Tadpole sprang from the homebrew cassette revolution and New York City’s downtown music scene. Although BTWT played East Village art-club gigs (with Sophie B. Hawkins on drums), the group mostly toured Smith’s Jersey City bedroom, recording songs on a four-track tape deck.

According to the group's website, "Smith, a virtuoso who had studied South Indian vocal music, Balinese gamelan, and electric banjo (with Peter Tork…