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    Bureau, The

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    Schism and sackings in the Dexys Midnight Runners camp in 1980 led to the formation of The Bureau and their brilliant debut single, Only For Sheep.

    Keyboard player Mick Talbot, drummer Andy Growcott, bassist Pete Williams and the two saxophonists Steve Spooner and Jeff Blythe from Dexys formed the new band with The Upset’s singer Archie Brown.

    The Bureau managed just one album, 1981’s eponymous outing, and it drew on the same things that made Dexys so great: mixing up tough R&B, punchy Stax-styled horns and jerky post-punk rhythms. But the hits never came.

    Mick Talbot founded The Style Council with Paul Weller while the rest of the band mainly kept their hands in as session players.

    Twenty-odd years later The Bureau reunited for two storming live shows in 2005 and a belated second album, …And Another Thing (2008).

    Archie Brown 
    Vocals
    Rob Jones 

    Guitar, trumpet, vocals
    Pete Williams 

    Bass, vocals
    Mick Talbot 

    Keyboards, vocals
    Steve Spooner 

    Alto Sax
    Geoff ‘J.B.’ Blythe 

    Tenor Sax
    Paul Taylor 

    Trombone
    Andy ‘Stoker’ Growcott

    Drums

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