Blackpool-based experimental electronic rockers, Section 25 centred around brothers Vince and Larry Cassidy, who often supported Factory label-mates Joy Division on live dates during 1980. With Paul…
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The Seeds formed in 1965 and comprised vocalist Sky Saxon, guitarist Jan Savage, keyboard player Daryl Hooper (who also played the bass parts on his…
This Australian quartet began life in 1963 with Keith Potger singing and playing the guitar, and Athol Guy performing on bass. They toured Melbourne’s coffee…
Originally called The Ugly Mirrors, Aussie band Sekret Sekret began a residency on Thursday nights at the legendary Civic Hotel in downtown Sydney. Over a…
The Selecter are often considered 2 Tone’s ‘also ran’s’ behind The Specials. They were a top live draw in their own right, though, and their 1980 album Too…
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band placed five albums in the UK Top 20 in three years and were considered capable of much more. Growing up…
Few early-80s pop stars can be said to have carried off the vile fashion of the period with any success, let alone the self-confessed ‘fat…
Brazilian thrash metal band formed in Sao Paolo in 1983 by teenage brothers Max and Igor Cavelera (on guitar and drums respectively) with guitarist Andreas…
These Norwich university students were rowdy good-time rockers with an overtly humorous approach and a studiedly hedonistic (booze and football) lyrical bent. Their independent singles…
Melbourne band Serious Young Insects emerged in 1980, combining XTC-like tunes with a Beatles aesthetic. In 1981 they released their debut single, Trouble Understanding Words with…
Australian band The Sets, led by brothers Gary and Don Hosie, were the leaders of the Sydney mod revival scene in the early 80s. Formed originally…
Midlands group The Settlers began in 1964 as a trio comprising Mike Jones and John Fyffe – who had teamed up as students at St…
An Australian ensemble who took non-musical instruments like tapes, electronic noises etc. and came up with a sound akin to electro-pop. Tom Ellard began making…
They may have been Goth, but unlike such lugubrious peers as Sisters Of Mercy and All About Eve, at least Leeds’ Sex Gang Children – the name was…
God bless The Sex Pistols. During their chaotic two-year existence, they introduced real musical anarchy to the world, yoking their working-class anger and disgust to…
As rock music reached the end of the 1960s and began to ‘grow up’, Sha Na Na became a big success by revisiting rock and…
Originally called The Shadows, Jim Sohns formed this band after graduating from Prospect High School in 1965, and for nine months, the group played gigs…
In our Beatles-centric view of pop history, it’s easy to forget the pre-Mop Top era when The Shadows were by far the biggest band in…
Ex-Bananarama singer Siobhan Fahey formed Shakespears Sisters (taking the name from a song by The Smiths) when she became disillusioned with the girl group. American…
Shakin’ Stevens was born Michael Barratt, in South Glamorgan, Wales in 1948 (the youngest of 12 children). In the late 60s, he teamed up with…