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Released: Jan 1, 1979

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Walking
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You're A Rebel
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OK LETS GO
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Run Run Run
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Here’s Looking At You
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Metropak - OK Let's Go

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Genre: Alternative / Indie / Post punk
Location EDINBURGH, Please select your region., Un
Profile Views: 37482
Last Login: 3/30/2013
Member Since 12/5/2006
Website www.closeuprecordsuk.com
Record Label PAK + Messthetics + Close Up Records UK
Type of Label Indie
Bio
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. Metropak 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. The band practised in Blair Street. Metropak played a number of venues in and around Edinburgh, including one at the Odeon with The Clash. Their 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. The records were funded by Tom Paine who also managed the group. 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). All three singles have been re-released by Close Up Records UK on a compilation CD album called 'The Singles Collection' available to buy from the artist website or many of the digital retailers. Band members stephen Harrison and Murray Bruce are still writing and recording music. See top friends below..
Members
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)
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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
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