Born in a small, English, cathedral town, Duncan Reid's early dream was to be the next George Best.
There was only one thing standing in his way: a complete lack of football talent!
So, having discovered a vintage bass guitar in his father's cupboard, Duncan headed to London
in his teenage years to land smack bang at the birth of the 70s punk explosion. Duncan's future fellow band member, Matt Dangerfield, had a basic 4 track studio in the
There are several artists named The Outsiders (11 are mentioned here): (1) The Outsiders were a sixties beat band from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Formed in 1960 as a neighbourhood band from Amsterdam East, The Outsiders became one of the most succesful Dutch groups of the 1960s. They made some lastingly great records and never recorded anyone else's material, with singer Wally Tax writing the lyrics and guitarist Ron Splinter the music for nearly all of the twelve 45s and three LPs they made.
FOLLOWING ON FROM THE RUTS
Ruts DC was the follow up name used by the surviving three members of The Ruts following the death of singer Malcolm Owen in 1980. They released two albums: Animal Now (a rock record on Virgin in 1981), and Rhythm Collision (a dub reggae record on their own imprint, Bohemian, in 1982, engineered by Mad Professor).
The band came to a halt in 1984 only once reforming to perform one now legendary gig at The Academy Islington on July 16th 2007.
Formed in Croydon in mid 1976, the band were present at UK punk’s birth. Johnny Moped became one of the pioneering punk bands that played live in the first few months of London’s now-legendary Roxy Club. They played two gigs in February 1977, one supporting Eater and one backing The Damned. Again, in March, they played another two gigs, one supporting Slaughter and The Dogs and the other backing The Damned. In April, they were on a bill that included Wire, X-Ray Spex and the Buzzcocks.
Pigs StoryRecorded at Sound Conception Studios, Bristol, August 12th We were the Pigs, a garage band that got lucky - but not that lucky. We formed in March 1977 and we disbanded in March 1978. In those twelve months we hit a few high notes and we hit a few bum notes. High note: first rehearsal, first garage, Henbury.
Ricky was a guitar player, so he plays drums. Kit was a bass player, so he plays guitar. Nigel has never touched an instrument before, so he plays bass. Eamonn is the front man. He has the best shades.
Punk band from Germany. Think The Shocks, The Adicts, The Briefs.
The band was originally comprised of twin brothers and former Gnidrolog members Colin Goldring (vocals / guitar) and Stewart Goldring (guitar / vocals) using the pseudonyms Vilos and Horrendus Styles, respectively – alongside Scabs (bass guitar), Germun LePig (drums) (later replaced by Bonk aka. Rocky Rhythm) and Mack E. Valley (keyboards. He was later replaced by Guardian Angel prior partway through the recording sessions for the second album.
The Cortinas 1. A short-lived Bristol punk band formed in 1976 and named after the Ford Cortina car. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cortinas_%28punk_band%29 2. A British psychedelic band of the 60s, later renamed Octopus.
There are more than one artist with this name.
1) "Slugs was formed in Ribe, Denmark in 2000, and is right now in a long time resting mode. Slugs came to life with a great deal of inspiration from Entombeds `Uprising`album. With members from bands like: Sacrificial-Crocell-Autumn Leaves-The Arcane Order-Submission-Scarve-Koldborn-Bomb Squad-Into Dementia-Decrial. Slugs was always a project band!"
(Taken from the bands Myspace site) Members:
On `sex,slugs and rock´n´roll: John-Vocal. Torsten-Vocal. Tommy-Guitar. Asmus-Guitar. Martin-Drums. Boris-Bas.