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Zones were the short-lived band the even shorter-lived PVC2 became when frontman Midge Ure buggered off to join Rich Kids. Which is also to say they were also once teenybop band Slik.
In the summer of ’77 Skids formed in Dunfermline, which is in Scotland and not to be confused with Dumbarton.
Does anyone remember The Freeze? Probably not unless you were living in Scotland in the early days of punk.
Here’s another of those great first-wave postpunk bands from Edinburgh. I’ve still got their debut single, Horrorshow, and their only album, Author! Author!
Dead Fingers Talk are another of those bands that shone brightly for a brief moment before slipping through the cracks in the immediate aftermath of punk.
Flowers were another of the Scottish postpunk bands that blossomed briefly, recording only 11 songs over the course of their short career.
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Frank Tovey was the first artist to be signed to Mute Records and Back To Nature was the second single to come out on the label.
Cowboys International didn’t last long. They released a handful of singles and a solitary album, and by the end of 1980 they had disappeared after about 18 months together.
Back in 1977 I don’t think I knew what rockabilly was, and I’d never heard Elvis Presley’s early Sun Sessions. Then along came a cool dude with impeccable punk credentials called Robert Gordon.
This wasn’t The Members’ first release – Fear On The Streets introduced them on the Streets compilation – but it was their first single, released on Stiff Records in 1978.