TOM... Manager...TONI D'ANA...Drums+backing vocal
ROBIN HAVANNA...Vocal+Guitar...
BRUCE BANNER (Murray Bruce)...Bass+backing vocal...
HEL...Keybords..
SHAAKKING STEPHEN (Stephen Harrison)...Vocal+Guitar..(first two records only)
Influences
MOWTOWN..B52'S...THE FALL...PERE UBU...DNA...THE CONTORTIONS...BUZZCOCKS...SIOUZIE AND THE BANSHHEES...SEX PISTOLS...THE CLASH...WIRE...THE RAMONES...THE SLITS...DEVO...THE JAM...THE SKIDS...2 TONE...THE ONLY ONES...BLONDIE...THE SAINTS...LARRY WALLIS...JONATHAN RICHMAN...IAN DURY...THE ADVERTS....THE STRANGLERS...THE UPSETTERS...TELEVISION...GANG OF FOUR...THE POP GROUP...TALKING HEADS
Metropak were a band formed in Edinburgh in 1978. We were inspired by the New Wave/Punk/Post-punk explosion started at around that time when bands started their own independant labels and made their own records. We were contemporary in Edinburgh at that time with Fire Engines, TV Art, Josef K, Scars, Flowers, Rezillos, The Visitors, The Freeze, It's Over It's Over It's Over, Boots for dancing, Matt Vinyl and the Decorators, Jacki And All The Ones, I.O.3, The Ellas, The BBC, The Colour Group, The Ettes, The Cubs, Green Rayo, The Prats, 35 mm Dreams, The Dirty Reds, Strange Daze and The Delmontes. Only Robin and Stephen were in it at first. Then Toni joined on drums, then Murray on Bass and soon Helen joined playing keyboards. We practised in Blair Street. Metropak played a number of venues in and around Edinburgh, including one at the Odeon with The Clash. Our first concert was at the Netherbow Theatre in Edinburgh on 27th January 1979. That year, the first two singles were recorded followed by the third one in 1980. The second and third singles were recorded at Tony Pilley's
Barclay Towers recording studio in Edinburgh. In the autumn of 1980, Metropak went to New York and performed at The Mudd Club, Tier 3 and The UK Club...Stephen left the band in 1979 after the second single was recorded and Helen left in 1980 after the third single and the gigs in New York. The three remaining members moved to London in 1981 and changed the band name to The Missing Kind and then Shooga Shooga. Murray left in 1982 and Robin and Toni reorded one more single as The Mastership, produced by The Mad Professor. The Metropak songs 'You're A Rebel' and 'Here's Looking At You' are included on a American compilation album of bands from Scotland of the same era.(Messthetics 105, released February 2008) ...The video was edited from film without sound taken at two concerts. One at the Art College in Edinburgh and the other at Glenrothes, Fife. The film has been edited to the song OK LET'S GO. All songs from the three singles are now available on iTunes ..
...and Napster and can be heard on last.fm radio.Stephen (Harrison) and Murray (Bruce) are still making music. Click on them in the top friends to hear their latest stuff
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....sl......>>>>.................Video. 'OK LET'S Go'.........Metropak
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This is sooo exciting, I remember being at afew practices and in the studio 'cos Toni's me mam! I nearly had kittens when I saw the video on youtube lol! Hehehe, top banana!!!xx
Moray is back from Japan for a one off My-T-Hi gig and Pete up from the Wirral to play with Shock and Awe, Graham is coming all the way from EH12. This is a one off opportunity for at least 3 of 35mm dreams to play together again. Moray is going to invite his old band to join My-T-Hi to play through some of the old favourites. It will be the first 35mm Dreams gig since 1983.
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