Gordon Blair is a Northern Irish

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

 musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

, usually known as Gordy Blair.

Blair started off his musical career as bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

ist for Highway Star, the band that was to become Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...

. In 1976 he joined Belfast punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band Rudi

Rudi

Rudi were a punk rock/power pop band from Belfast, Northern Ireland formed in 1975.-History:Rudi formed in 1975 as a covers band with members Brian Young, Ronnie Matthews, Graham Marshall, Leigh Carson and Gordon Blair, playing rock 'n' roll and glam rock hits. The band's name was taken from a...

, with whom he stayed for three years. After leaving Rudi, he played for The Outcasts, The Trial

The Trial (band)

The Trial are an experimental German-Turkish alternative-band, playing music somewhere in between rock, pop, wave, industrial and several other styles. They are one of the groups that attracted attention as being "different" to what was and is usually known as Turkish popular music in Germany...

, Big Self and Ruefrex

Ruefrex

Ruefrex, originally called Roofwrecks, were a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in in 1977.-History:The band was formed in 1977 by Paul Burgess and Tom Coulter at the Boys Model School in Belfast, Coulter originally acting as vocalist but sticking to bass when Ivan Kelly joined....

, lasting for periods of between a year and three years, with each band. Between 1987 and 1997, he spent various periods of time playing bass for Australian outfit Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes, before finally hanging up his bass to concentrate on a new career in desktop publishing

Desktop publishing

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