“I’d indulge in all-night orgies of sex, violence, fighting, drinking and driving. Sometimes I even bit people on the street”: The chaotic story of Love/Hate, the greatest Sunset Strip band nobody cared about

Love/Hate posing for a photograph on flight cases in 1990.

Love/Hate emerged from the late 80s Sunset Strip scene in a whirlwind of noise and hype with killer debut album Blackout In The Red Room. But the public never embraced them, their record company didn’t get them and they couldn’t match the success of many of their peers. In 2008, singer Jizzy Pearl, bassist Skid Rose and drummer Joey Gold looked back on how their band snatched defeat from the jaws of victory at every turn.