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…
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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, in next to no time the band were Chicago’s most popular group – a group which specialised in commercial blues but…
Everything in British pop was American before The Shadows hit #1. Tommy Steele, Cliff Richard – they all looked to Elvis and the US for inspiration. Then, from behind…
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…
Formed in Hersham, Surrey in 1975, Sham 69 was the ultimate “lads” band. All pints of lager, football terrace chants and menacing cocksure attitudes. Jimmy…
The Shamen formed in Aberdeen in 1986 to play heavy psychedelic rock, as evidenced on their 1987 debut LP Drop. But there was dissension in The Shamen’s…
Originally known as Johnny Theakston & the Tremeloes, the original line-up included Theakston on vocals, ex-miners Jerry Wilcock and Mick Eyre on guitars, Bill Bonney on bass and Tony Hinchcliffe…
