released the album 30 Something

In 1991 – having signed to Rough Trade Records – Carter USM released the album 30 Something which, thanks to non-stop touring, entered the UK Albums Chart at number eight. One of the singles released from the album, “Bloodsport for All”, an attack on racism and bullying in the army, was released at the start of the Gulf War and consequently banned by the BBC . Spurred on by infamy, Jim Bob and Fruitbat toured Japan , Yugoslavia and the United States (with EMF ) and made a second-on-the-bill appearance at the Reading Festival . The band also made its first Top of the Pops appearance with the single “After the Watershed (Early Learning The Hard Way)”, a song about child abuse that would become more famous for its subsequent legal battle with The Rolling Stones ‘ publisher over the use of the lyrics “Goodbye Ruby Tuesday ” in the chorus. The band also hit the headlines when Fruitbat rugby tackled the children’s TV presenter Phillip Schofield in front of millions of television viewers at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party in 1991.