Thatcher on Acid

{{Short description|British anarcho-punk band}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=July 2016}}

{{Infobox musical artist

|name = Thatcher on Acid

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|origin = England

|genre = Anarcho-punk

|label = All the Madmen, Agit-Prop

|years_active = 1983–1998

|current_members =

}}

Thatcher on Acid were an English anarcho-punk band.Myers, Ben. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cHQjR-5M0VwC&dq=thatcher+on+acid+band&pg=PA78 Green Day: American Idiots & the New Punk Explosion]. The Disinformation Company. p. ?. 2006. Retrieved 29 November 2012. They formed in Somerset during 1983.Glasper, Ian (2007). [https://books.google.com/books?id=pSwJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Thatcher+on+Acid%22 The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980 to 1984]. Cherry Red Books. p. 221-222, Their name is a satirical reference to former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher.Green, Alex. [https://books.google.com/books?id=73QyAhX5OgQC&dq=thatcher+on+acid+punk&pg=PA31 The Stone Roses]. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 31. 2006. Ben Corrigan, Bob Butler and Andy Tuck also played in Schwartzeneggar with ex-Crass member, Steve Ignorant.Bains, Jon. [http://www.obsolete.com/convulsion/interviews/convulse/4.34.html "Alice Donut: Food, Sex and Cruelty"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127143039/http://obsolete.com/convulsion/interviews/convulse/4.34.html |date=27 November 2010 }}. Convulsion Magazine. Issue 4. p. 34. 24 October 1995. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

The band opened the anarcho-punk band Conflict's "Gathering of the 5000" show at Brixton Academy, an event which resulted in many arrests and achieved a degree of infamy.[http://www.uncarved.org/music/apunk/gathering.html "Conflict, London 1987"]. Transcription of statement on Conflict/Mortarhate merchandise leaflet distributed at gigs in the late 80s and early 90s.

Bassist Bob Butler died in 2022.{{cite magazine | last= | first= | date=June 2022 | title=Verstorben | trans-title=Deceased | url= | language=de | magazine=Ox-Fanzine | page=5 | location=Solingen | publisher=Ox Verlag | access-date= }}