Red London

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General Info

Genre: Punk
Location London and South East, UK
Profile Views: 38415
Last Login: 8/11/2010
Member Since 3/29/2009
Record Label Razor records, Combat Rock records...
Type of Label Unsigned
Bio
.. ....Myspace Contact Tables.. .. .. .. .. The Rebels were Sunderland’s first punk band. Sunderland happens to be my hometown. Gaz Stoker, the founder of the Rebels, happens to be my elder brother. Being just a young kid into music I naturally followed my brother’s band. It was a pretty good musical education, constantly watching the band play live, picking up guitar tricks, finding out how they wrote original songs, being at rehearsals, being one of the first to listen to their demo recordings, and so on.By the time I left school I felt I was ready to start my own band. In 1978, at the age of sixteen, I formed a band called The Street Boys. Pretty quickly we were up and running and playing local gigs. But we were living out the lyrics to the Clash song Garageland, you know, “five guitar players and one guitar.” By early 1979 we found a new singer called Patty Smith and changed our name to Red London. For the next ten months we gigged all over the city and built up a good little following (including a very young punk fan called Steve Smith, who happened to be Patty’s younger brother). We even recorded a demo (now sadly lost). But by early 1980 we had split-up.I then had a spell in Red Alert, invited to join by none other than Steve Smith, the younger brother of Patty who used to follow Red London. I mentioned that the demo we recorded in 1979 has been lost, so there is no real memento of what Red London sounded like during that period. However, the Red Alert song Sell Out, as found on the Border Guards EP, is an old 1979 Red London song. It was one of the earliest songs I wrote. Perhaps that song gives an idea of what the first Red London sounded like. For a number of reasons, but largely down to the fact I have to be the chief songwriter in any band, I left Red Alert. (Tony Van Frater was the main guitarist in Red Alert.)By now I was totally addicted to music and being in a band. Meeting up with Patty Smith again we decided to reform Red London. This was 1981, a year that saw the end of The Rebels. Gaz was pretty down with the finish of his band and was just drifting for a while and wondering what to do next. We quickly offered him the opportunity to join Red London. He accepted, though he did have to switch from lead guitar to bass. .. .. .. "Sten guns in Sunderland" EP 1983 .. .. "This is England" CD 1984 .. .. "Pride & Passion" EP 1987 .. .. "Outlaws" CD 1989 .. .. "Days like these" CD 1997 .. .. "Downtown riot" EP 1997 .. .. "Live in Leipzig" CD 2004 .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... ...... .......... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..............Create your own visitor map!.... .. .. .. .. .. ......
Members
vocals: Steve Smith .. bass: Gaz Stoker .. lead Guitar: Kid Stoker .. guitar: Steve Straughan .. drums: Craig Casson ..
Influences
Punk Rock
Sounds Like
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