Here’s a second-wave punk band I don’t remember hearing before, probably because my tastes had evolved by the time they formed in 1981.

They’re an interesting footnote to a dwindling scene where more female singers were coming to the fore (see also: Vice Squad, The Expelled): their five-year career produced a handful of singles and a couple of albums.

!Action Pact! were based in London, formed in suburban Stanwell by guitarist Wild Planet (Des Stanley), bassist Dr Phibes (Kim Igoe), drummer Joe Fungus and 15-year-old female singer George Cheex.

They contributed two songs, London Bouncers and All Purpose Action Footwear, to a split EP called Heathrow Touchdown – shared with Dead Man’s Shadow – which caught the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel.

This was one of the songs they played on their first of two Peel Sessions, and helped them become the first band signed to new label Fall Out Records, who put out the Suicide Bag EP in July 1982.

Their sound and song titles – Mindless Aggression, Losers Protest Is Alive – stuck rigidly to the punk formula, but they were no worse for that.

As time passed, they were joined by drummer Grimly Fiendish and bassist Thistles, and producer Phil Langham (from Islington punks The Dark) would also moonlight on bass under the name Elvin Pelvin, while Igoe/Phibes continued as a lyricist.

The band split in 1986 and in early 2016, Wild Planet (Des Stanley), who went on to manage his son Mark’s heavy rock band Purge, died from cancer.