Originally formed in Belfast in 1976, The Starjets played a mixture of their own songs and cover versions such as The Archies’ Sugar Sugar and The Beatles’ Please Please…
Browsing: Power Pop
The Stems were one of the finest 1960s-inspired garage bands Australia produced in the ’80s, during a time when paisley-clad, mop-topped psychedelic revival bands were…
Evolving from a local covers band called Hiker, this five-piece power pop band from Southend, Essex, sounded like the 60s-era Rolling Stones and sang like…
This Sydney power-pop band were a pop group with a fresh and squeaky-clean image. With an added touch of respectability – the necktie. 23-year-old drummer…
Led by vocalist/guitarist Dave Fenton, The Vapors were a short-lived new wave guitar group that is best remembered for the pop single Turning Japanese. Fenton formed the first…
This little known British band produced some killer power pop during the early 80s and should have been huuuuuge stars – but sadly they weren’t and their…
Adelaide band Young Modern was one of Australia’s pioneering power pop/new wave bands of the late 1970s. Vocalist John Dowler formed the band (taking their…