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Scars

General Info

  • Genre: Glam / Pop / Punk

    Location Edinburgh, UK

    Profile Views: 158812

    Last Login: 11/14/2011

    Member Since 4/13/2006

    Website http://www.scarsresearch.com

    Record Label //FAST Product//, PRE Records, PreVS

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... ...... ..Chances are that you won't remember post-punk band Scars. Their moment in the sun was both tragically and gloriously brief. They stormed out of Edinburgh in the early 1980s possessed of equal parts glam audacity, art-rock solemnity and futuristic zeal. They were roundly hailed as the next great white musical hope. Two Peel sessions and a handful of music-paper covers later, they vanished in a fog of egotism and frustrated desires. But not before they delivered their one and only album, 1981's maddeningly beautiful Author! Author!.. ..In the intervening years, Scars have been effectively forgotten. Years ago, Mark E Smith namechecked them as his favourite band ("because they were the complete opposite of the Fall"), and more recently, Lemon Jelly briefly raised Scars' profile by sampling them on their '64-'95 album. But despite guitarist Paul Research's sterling efforts to keep the name alive on his ..Scars website.., the band appeared to be permanently consigned to the dustbin of history. Even in Simon Reynolds' supposedly "encyclopaedic" post-punk history, Rip it Up & Start Again, Scars merit only the most fleeting of mentions. Tosser. .. .. Meanwhile, down the last 25 years, every other once-forgotten band of their era has been either endlessly repackaged and/or critically rehabilitated to enable them to enjoy an extension on their fifteen minutes by virtue of their appearance on a thousand and one dodgy service-station compilations. .. As for Scars, their fate has hardly been helped by the convoluted copyright situation that has held up the reissue of Author! Author! for all these years. Now that it's finally out and sounding as edgy and lovely as it always did, maybe the band can finally enjoy some of the critical and commercial acclaim that has long been denied them. .. .. ...... .. That's right, ONE POUND to see The Cure and Joy Division. *sigh*
  • Members

    1977-1982.. Robert King -Vocals.. Paul Research - Guitar.. John Mackie - Bass.. Calumn Mackay - Drums (1977-1980).. Steve McLaughlin - Drums (1980-1982)..
  • Influences

    Ziggy = punk = disco = Mishima = Thin Lizzy = Grease = glitter = girls = art = fear = school = hair gel = London = fame = etc.
  • Sounds Like

    = obsessions =

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  • LIta CAlkIns

    Enjoying your music.

    2 years ago
  • LIta CAlkIns

    Awesome music

    2 years ago
  • 2 years ago
  • celia perry

    Hello
    I'm trying to put together some sort of portfolio of my work aka clothes/costumes I've made and I do remember you guys as you had the raw energy and enthusiasm of our youth. I hope you remember doing the aztec gear with myself and Al Mcdowell for Author Author! If you have any other pics (apart from whats on this site) would love to get some. I do remember you as fun and vervacious, and of course your music.
    I moved to Sydney Australia some time ago not the arse end of the world, good vibes good weather good feels
    Hope to hear from you
    Celia Perry

    3 years ago
  • gamine

    Darling Scars

    We hope you're just fine and dandy!

    You've probably heard us mention our new album? Well, in between playing Author! Author! non-stop recently, we've just started our promotional efforts, with new songs and films on our page and so forth, and we hope you don't mind terribly if we leave a little publicity for you and your friends to look at...

    lots of 

    gamine
    xx

    PS we're also on Facebook now... http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gamine/5998983703

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    3 years ago
  • A M Y C A N B E

    Grazie!!!!!

    We are in PEACE, compilation for Amnesty International out 1st March, along with other great names. See our blog section for infos. Cheers!!

    PEACE music Atlas by Buffetlibre & Amnesty International is up on schedule on our TV.

    PEACE Out 1st March

    Search on WWW.AMAZON.CO.UK or iTunes to buy our albums

    3 years ago
  • FlowersInTheDustbin

    I am going through another Scars fixation!  Gonnae get your website up & running again??  I need to find out where I can get the non Author Author stuff!!

    Vive Scars!

    Stephen

    3 years ago
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  • Macangus Macangus

    Love 'Horrorshow' by the Scars. Check out Scottish post-punkers on my podcast
    http://akathecrofter.podbean.com/feed/

    3 years ago
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