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• The 012
• 021
• 1-2-3
• 11:59
• 17 Stitches
• 2 Perfect Strangers
• 2TV
• 2.3
• 23 Jewels
• 3 Times A Day
• 30 Seconds
• 36C
• 3rd Men
• 3rd Party
• 4 Be 2
• 4 ft Fingers
  4ft Fingers
  4 ft Fingers are an English punk rock band from Cheltenham, United Kingdom, formed in 1996.-History:4 ft Fingers were formed in Cheltenham in 1996. The mid nineties was a time of a minor musical revolution in Cheltenham, spearheaded by bands such as Vicious Rumour and the Axiom centre...
  
  
• 4 Minute Warning
• The 4-Skins
  The 4-Skins
  The 4-Skins are a working class Oi! punk rock band from the East End of London, England. Originally composed of Gary Hodges , 'Hoxton' Tom McCourt , Steve 'H' Hamer and Gary Hitchcock , they formed in 1979 and disbanded in 1984 – although new line-ups formed in 2007 and 2008...
  
  
• 4Q
  Sons of Selina
  The Sons of Selina were a psychedelic-punk group formed in Colwyn Bay in 1990. They were very hard to pigeon-hole into a musical genre as their sound swept from Punk rock to Electro Pop .-Formation:...
  
  
• 48 Chairs
• 48 Hours
  Avon Calling
  Avon Calling is an album of tracks featuring bands from Bristol, UK, on local record label Heartbeat Records, and was originally released in 1979...
  
  
• 49 Americans
• 5th Column
• 530 Boots
• 6ix
• 625 Lines
• 7th Plague
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• 70% Proof
• 8.4%
• 999
  999 (band)
  999 are an English rock band who formed in London in 1977. They are often cited as one of the first punk rock bands. Between 1978 and 1981, they had five Top 75 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and one Top 40 single. After extensive touring across the Atlantic Ocean, the band's third and fourth...
  
  
• 10 Past 7
• 100,000 Bodybags

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• The A303s
• A-Heads
  Wessex '82
  The Wessex '82 7" is a split extended play release by UK punk bands The Subhumans, The Pagans, Organised Chaos and The A-Heads. Each band contributes one track to the record...
  
  
• A Nul Noise
• A Touch of Hysteria
• Abdoujaparov
  Abdoujaparov
  Abdoujaparov are a punk band formed on 19 October 1998 by ex-Carter USM guitarist Les Carter . Abdoujaparov's musical foundations are the joyous and shambolic influences of 1977 punk rock. The music is raucous and fast but with country elements.So far four EPs, a single and two albums have been...
  
  
• The Abductors
• A.B.H.
• The Abnormal
• The Aborts
• Abrasive Wheels
  Abrasive Wheels
  Abrasive Wheels were a punk rock band of the late 1970s/early 1980s. They hailed from Leeds, England and were seldom out of the Independent charts between 1980 and 1984 when the band split. The band were Shonna Rzonca - vocals, Dave Ryan - guitar, Harry Harrison - bass, Nev Nevison - drums...
  
  
• The Abs
• Abstract Contingent
• Abstract Critique
• The Abstracts
• The Abused
• The Accelerators
• Accident Gallery
• Accident on the East Lancs Road
• Accumulative Poison
• The Accursed
• The Accused
• The Aces
• Acid Attack
• Acid Drops
• Ack Ack
• Acme Attractions
• Acme Music
• Acme Sewage Co
• Actifed
• !Action Pact!
• Active Minds
• Actives
• AD '80
• Ad Nauseum
• Adam and the Ants
  Adam and the Ants
  Adam and the Ants were a British rock band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The original group, which existed from 1977 to 1980, became notable as a cult band marking the transition from the late-1970s punk rock era to the post-punk and New Wave era...
  
  
• Addiction
• The Addix
• Addo
  Sad Day We Left the Croft
  Sad Day We Left The Croft is a compilation album of punk bands from the Scottish Hebridean island of Lewis, recorded in 1980 and released in 1981, as a 12 inch vinyl LP on an independent record label, Adult Entertainments, based in Stornoway; and also in a cassette version by Croft Recordings. A...
  
  
• The Adicts
  The Adicts
  The Adicts are an English punk band from Ipswich, Suffolk, England. One of the more popular punk rock bands in the 1980s, they were often in the indie charts at that time. Their song "Viva La Revolution" was featured in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground. It was also featured in a commercial...
  
  
• Admit You're Shit
• The Adolescents
• Adrenalin
• Adulescents UK
• A.D.1984
• Advertising
• The Adverts
  The Adverts
  The Adverts were an English punk band who formed in 1976 and broke up in late 1979. They were one of the first punk bands to enjoy chart success in the UK, and their line-up included Gaye Advert, whom The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music called the "first female punk star".-Career:The band was...
  
  
• The Afflicted
• The Afflicted Man
• Aftermath UK
  Anti-Pasti
  Anti-Pasti was a British punk band, founded by vocalist Martin Roper and guitarist Dugi Bell in 1978, featuring Kev Nixon on drums and Will Hoon on bass guitar. Later they were joined by a second guitarist, Olly Hoon. Their first album, The Last Call, spent seven weeks in the UK Albums Chart,...
  
  
• Again Again
• The Agents
  The Agents
  The Agents were a post-punk band formed in 1980 in Bristol, England. The band formed from the remnants of several bands that were playing the American Military bases circuit in Europe in the 1970s. The Band were based in Mannheim, Germany and the lineup consisted of vocalist Swig , guitarist Dave...
  
  
• The Aggravators
• Agony Column
• Ail Symudiad
• Airmail
• Airship
• The Alan Milman Sect
• The Alert
• Alien Kulture
  Alien Kulture
  Alien Kulture was a British punk band active from 1979 through 1981, founded by Ausaf Abbas, Azhar Rana, Pervez Bilgrami, and self-described "token white" Huw Jones...
  
  
• Alien Matter
• Alien Tint
• Alienated
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Alienated (Northern Ireland)
• Aliens
• All or Nothing
  All or Nothing (band)
  All or Nothing is a British pop punk/hardcore band formed in 2002 and is based in Birmingham, England. The band consists of Tom Chong , Rich Murphy , Paul Foster and Nick Reynolds ....
  
  
• All the Bodies
• Allegiance To No One
• Alley Cats
• The Allies
• Allotropes
• The Alsatians
• The Alternative
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• The Alternative British Army
• Alternative TV
  Alternative TV
  Alternative TV were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976. Their punk rock and post-punk sound was influential for several musical artists.-History:...
  
  
• The Alternators
• Alternomen Unlimited
  Spherical Objects (band)
  Spherical Objects were an important representative of the Manchester, UK-based experimental independent post-punk scene of the late 70s . All these bands were hosted under the Object Music record label...
  
  
• The Amazing Spacefrogs
• Amazorblades
  Amazorblades
  Amazorblades were one of the early punk groups, as cronicled in Henrik Poulsen's book 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave, from Brighton, England. They released a single, "Common Truth" c/w "Mess Around" on Chiswick Records...
  
  
• Amebix
  Amebix
  Amebix are an English crust punk/heavy metal band. Formed as "The Band with No Name," Amebix's original run was from 1978 to 1987, during which time they released three EPs and two full-length LPs...
  
  
• The American Ruse
• Amorphons
• Amos and Sara
  The Homosexuals
  The Homosexuals are a punk band formed in 1978. They were born out of the ashes of The Rejects.- History :The Rejects were formed at Goldsmith's College in South London in 1976, when Bruno Wizard recruited a young songwriter named Ian Kane to help express his disquiet with the modern world and...
  
  
• Amsterdam
• The Anal Fleas
• Anal Surgeons
• Anarchism
• The Anarchists
• Anarchy & The Fourth Reich
• Anathema
• The Androids
• Androids of Mu
• Andy Blade Band
• Andy McCarroll & Moral Support
• Andy Pandemonium
• Andy Watts & Cobra
• Angela Rippon's Bum
• Angelic Upstarts
  Angelic Upstarts
  Angelic Upstarts are an English punk rock/Oi! band formed in South Shields in 1977. The band espoused an anti-fascist and socialist working class philosophy, and have been associated with the skinhead subculture...
  
  
• Angletrax
  Angletrax
  Angletrax was a British new wave-punk group that existed in the late 1970s, who were signed to Germany's Hansa Records label.The members were: Martin Heath , Wendy Herman , Lin Jammet , Jerry Minge , Dan Who ....
  
  
• Angylion Stanli
• Yr Anhrefn
  Yr Anhrefn
  Yr Anhrefn, also known simply as Anhrefn, were an influential Welsh punk rock group of the 1980s and 1990s.-History:Anhrefn formed in 1982, and initially sang only in Welsh...
  
  
• Anihilated
  Anihilated
  Anihilated is a thrash metal band formed in Ipswich, England in 1981 from the remnants of punk band Prospex. The line up was Andy Creasey on Vocals, Simon “Si” Cobb on guitar and vocals, Lee Hittman on bass, Paul “Bod” Rodwell on Drums. They recorded their first demo in 1983 however, they parted...
  
  
• Animal Farm
• Animals And Men
• Animus
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Anorexia
• Anorexic Dread
• Another Pretty Face
  Mike Scott (musician)
  Michael 'Mike' Scott is the founding member, lead singer and chief songwriter of rock band The Waterboys. He has also produced two solo albums, Bring 'em All In and Still Burning...
  
  
• Anthrax (UK)
  Anthrax (UK band)
  Anthrax were an anarcho punk band formed in Gravesend, Kent, England in 1980. They recorded their first demo in 1981 and went on to release two 7" EPs on Crass Records and Small wonder. They appeared on compilations released by Crass Records, Mortarhate Records and Fightback Records...
  
  
• Anti-Climax
• Anti-Establishment
  Anti-establishment
  An anti-establishment view or belief is one which stands in opposition to the conventional social, political, and economic principles of a society. The term was first used in the modern sense in 1958, by the British magazine New Statesman to refer to its political and social agenda...
  
  
• Anti-Nowhere League
  Anti-Nowhere League
  Anti-Nowhere League is an English punk band, formed in 1980 by lead singer Animal , guitarist Magoo , Tony "Bones" Shaw on drums and Chris "Baggy" Elvy on bass.-Early days:...
  
  
• Anti-Pasti
  Anti-Pasti
  Anti-Pasti was a British punk band, founded by vocalist Martin Roper and guitarist Dugi Bell in 1978, featuring Kev Nixon on drums and Will Hoon on bass guitar. Later they were joined by a second guitarist, Olly Hoon. Their first album, The Last Call, spent seven weeks in the UK Albums Chart,...
  
  
• Anti-Social (Birmingham)
• Anti-State Control
• Anti System
  Anti System
  Anti System were a British punk rock and anarcho-punk band active in the 1980s.-History:Original line up consisted of Phil, George, Dom and Dave damned on vocals, following their first gig at the Palm Cove in Bradford, dave Damned was replaced by Nogsy...
  
  
• Antibodies
• Antidote
• Antisect
  Antisect
  Antisect are an English anarcho-punk band, formed in 1982 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, UK. Their debut album, In Darkness There is No Choice, was released in 1983...
  
  
• Antisocial (Blackpool)
• AOA
• Apartment
  Apartment (Bristol band)
  Apartment were a Post Punk band formed in Bristol, UK in late 1978. Fronted by Alan Griffiths -Vocals/Guitar, with Emil on Drums and Richard White playing Bass....
  
  
• APB
  APB (band)
  APB was a Scottish post-punk band, formed in 1979, that blended funk-rock, punk rock and New Wave music. The group had only modest success during its brief run, yet their influence can be heard in the sound of such current bands as Franz Ferdinand, The Rapture, and Red Hot Chili...
  
  
• The APF Brigade
  The APF Brigade
  The APF Brigade were an anarcho-punk duo from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The group was founded by Andi Export and Jon Hindle in the early 1980s.- Genre :...
  
  
• Apocalypse
• The Apostles
  The Apostles
  The Apostles are an experimental punk rock band who developed within the confines of the 1980s Anarcho Punk scene in the UK, but did not necessarily adhere to the aesthetics of that movement.-History:...
  
  
• April & The Fools
• Arch Criminals
• Argy Bargy
• Arkitex
• Armed Force
• Armitage Shanks
• The Armoury Show
  The Armoury Show
  The Armoury Show was a New Wave band formed in 1983 by Richard Jobson on vocals, Russell Webb on bass guitar, John McGeoch on guitar and John Doyle on drums. Each member was known for being in a previously acclaimed band, as Jobson and Webb were in The Skids and McGeoch and Doyle in Magazine. The...
  
  
• The Arnold
• The Art Attacks
  The art attacks
  The Art Attacks were a British punk band from April 1977 to March 1978.Their songs released as singles were "I am a Dalek"/"Neutron Bomb" and "Punk Rock Stars"/"Rat City". The group was formed by Edwin Pouncey and Steve Spear, two students from the Royal College of Art, London for a one-off gig at...
  
  
• Art Failure
• The Arteries
• Artery
  Artery (band)
  Artery are a British post-punk band from Sheffield, that was founded in 1978. They were originally known confusingly as just The. After several changes in the line-up and four albums they split up in 1985...
  
  
• Arthur 2 Stroke
• Arthur Comics
  The Snivelling Shits
  The Snivelling Shits were a punk rock group formed in London in 1977, and centred on Giovanni Dadomo-History:Giovanni Dadomo was a music journalist who wrote for publications such as ZigZag, Sounds, and The Face....
  
  
• Andy Arthurs
• Ash
  Ash (band)
  Ash are an alternative rock band that formed in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1992. The band has sold 8 million albums worldwide.-Band beginning, Trailer and 1977 :...
  
  
• Ask Mother
• Assassins of Hope
• Assault
• Aston Hall
• The Astronauts
• The Astros
• Asylum
• Athletico Spizz 80
• The Atoms
• Atrox
• Attak
• Attempted Moustache
• The Attendants
• Attic
• Attrix
• The Au Pairs
  Au Pairs (band)
  The Au Pairs were a British post-punk band that formed in Birmingham in 1979. Music historian Gillian G. Gaar noted in her history of women in rock that the band mingled male and female musicians in a revolutionary collaborative way, as part of its outspoken explorations of sexual...
  
  
• Auntie Pus
• Auntie Social
• Autographs
• The Automatics
  Automatics
  Automatics are an English punk rock and New Wave band that was formed by Dave Philp in 1976 after a brief stint as the singer with The Boys.-History:...
  
  
• The Autonomes
• Autumn Poison
  Autumn Poison
  Autumn Poison were an English anarcho-punk band from Southend on Sea, Essex, between 1980 and 1985. A number of musicians in the Southend area passed through the group, including Julian Ware Lane and Chris Kemp of 86 Mix, Kevin Hickling, Steve Palmer, James Perry and Wayne Avrilli, though the 'core...
  
  
• Avant Gardeners
• Awake Mankind
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• The Axidents

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• Bacchus
• Backseat Romeos
• The Backstabbers
• Bad Actors
• Bad Babies
• Bam Bam & The Calling
• Ed Banger
• Bangers
• Bank of Dresden
• The Bankrobbers
• The Banned
  The Banned
  The Banned are a fictional band in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. The storyline aired in 1986 and although it was considered to be a failure on-screen, it nevertheless became a successful part of the serial's extensive merchandising industry that year, as it spawned two Hit singles in the UK Music...
  
  
• Barbed Wire
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• The Barmy Army
• The Barracudas
  The Barracudas
  The Barracudas are an English based Anglo-Canadian band formed in the late 1970s.The band's original lineup consisted of: Jeremy Gluck , Robin Wills , Starkie Phillips and Adam Phillips....
  
  
• Basczax
  Basczax
  Basczax were a British post-punk band that was formed in Redcar in August 1978.-History:The band was formed by Mick Todd , who recorded a demo of "Karleearn Photography", which convinced Jeff Fogarty and Alan Savage to join...
  
  
• The Basics
• The Batteries
• Battery Boys
  Sad Day We Left the Croft
  Sad Day We Left The Croft is a compilation album of punk bands from the Scottish Hebridean island of Lewis, recorded in 1980 and released in 1981, as a 12 inch vinyl LP on an independent record label, Adult Entertainments, based in Stornoway; and also in a cassette version by Croft Recordings. A...
  
  
• The Bazoomis
• Beans & The Toasties
• The Bears
• Beat Brothers
• Beauty School Dropout
• Bee Bee Cee
• The Bees
• The Beekeepers
• The Beez
• The Belsen Horrors
• Berlin
• Bet Lynch's Legs
• Bethnal
  Bethnal
  Bethnal were a British punk band formed in 1972. In 1978, they released two albums on Vertigo Records: Dangerous Times, produced by Kenny Laguna; and Crash Landing; produced by Jon Astley and Phil Chapman,with special thanks to Pete Townshend...
  
  
• Betrayed
• Between Pictures
• Beyond the Implode
• Beyond The Wall
• Big G
• Big Hair
  Big hair
  thumb|[[Dolly Parton]] in 1983.Big hair is a term that can refer to hairstyles that emphasize large volume or largely styled hair, especially when those styles make the hair occupy a large amount of space above and around the head...
  
  
• Big In Japan
• Big Self
• Bill Mason Band
• Bill The Murderer
• Billy Karloff Band
• Billy No Mates
• Bird Shit
• Bish
• Bitch
• The Bits
• Black Easter
• The Black-Edds
• Black Tax
• Blackhole
  Blackhole (band)
  Blackhole were an English hardcore punk band from Hemel Hempstead/Berkhamsted. The band was formed in 2007 by singer Richard Carter and guitarist Andreas Yiasoumi when their previous bands fell apart. They have toured across the UK with Cancer Bats, Every Time I Die, The Ghost of a Thousand and...
  
  
• Bladze
• Blaggers ITA
• Blah Blah Blah
• The Bland
  Sad Day We Left the Croft
  Sad Day We Left The Croft is a compilation album of punk bands from the Scottish Hebridean island of Lewis, recorded in 1980 and released in 1981, as a 12 inch vinyl LP on an independent record label, Adult Entertainments, based in Stornoway; and also in a cassette version by Croft Recordings. A...
  
  
• Blank Students
• The Blanks
• The Bleach Boys
  The Bleach Boys
  The Bleach Boys are a punk rock band from Hertfordshire who have been playing together since 1977.Originally known as the Fur Coughs, the group's name was given to them by the philosopher Simon Critchley, and is a play on The Beach Boys...
  
  
• Blessed Virgins
• Blind Attack
• Blind Justice
• Blitz
  Blitz (band)
  Blitz was a street punk band from New Mills, Derbyshire, England. They had success in the United Kingdom indie charts in the early 1980s. With both punk and skinhead members, they were enthusiastically championed by Sounds magazine writer Garry Bushell, though guitarist Nidge would later go on to...
  
  
• Blitz Boys
• Blitzkrieg
  Blitzkrieg (punk band)
  Blitzkrieg are an English punk rock band, based in Southport and formed in 1979.Blizkrieg made a distinct contribution to the UK hardcore punk scene and were a powerful antidote to the neo-Nazi skinhead RAC bands that rose to prominence in the early 1980s...
  
  
• Blitzkrieg Bop
  Blitzkrieg Bop (band)
  Blitzkrieg Bop were a punk band formed in Teesside, England in February 1977. They were named after a song by Ramones with the same name. They released three singles...
  
  
• Bloated Toads
• The Blood
• Blood and Roses
• The Blood Clots (Northern Ireland)
• The Blood Clots (Stanley)
• Bloodsport
• Blood Robots
• The Blue Meanies
• Blue Rhythm
• Blue Screaming
• Blue Steam
• The Blues
• Blunt Instrument
  Robert Sandall
  Robert Sandall was a British musician, music journalist and radio presenter. He was best known for presenting, with Mark Russell, BBC Radio 3's Mixing It programme from 1990 until 2007. After ending on Radio 3 the show moved to Resonance FM in London, where it continued under the name Where's the...
  
  
• Blush
• Blyth Power
  Blyth Power
  Blyth Power are a British rock band formed in 1983 by singer/drummer Joseph Porter, formerly of Zounds and The Mob.Blyth Power's music shows strong influences from punk rock and folk music, and the band members have described their sound as a cross between The Clash, Steeleye Span and The...
  
  
• Bobby and the Girls Next Door
• The Bodgers
• The Bodies
• Boffo
  Boff Whalley
  Allan Mark "Boff" Whalley is the lead guitarist for the band Chumbawamba.-Early life and education:Whalley was born Allan Mark Whalley in 1961 in Burnley, Lancashire...
  
  
• Bog Ugly
• Bogart
• Bok Bok
• Bollock Brothers
  Bollock Brothers
  The Bollock Brothers are a British Punk act formed in 1979 by the London promoter, DJ and manager Jock McDonald and are latterly best known for their English language cover of Serge Gainsbourg's song "Harley David " and Alex Harvey's "Faith Healer".As well as being renowned for their self penned...
  
  
• The Bombers
• The Bombshells
• Bondage
• Boots For Dancing
  Boots For Dancing
  Boots for Dancing were a post-punk band from Edinburgh, Scotland, active between 1979 and 1982, and featuring several musicians from other notable bands.-History:...
  
  
• The Bore-Town Bop
• The Bored
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• The Bomb
• Born B.C.
• The Bouncing Flowers
  Rat Scabies
  Christopher Millar , better known by his stage name Rat Scabies, is a musician best known for his tenure as the drummer for The Damned....
  
  
• The Boyfriends
• The Boys
  The Boys (UK Band)
  The Boys are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1976.Members of the band had previously played in other groups, such as London SS and Hollywood Brats. After recording four studio albums and eight singles, as well as recording Christmas themed music under the name The Yobs, they disbanded...
  
  
• The Bratz
• Brainiac Five
• Breakout
• Brent Ford and the Nylons
• Brian James and the Brains
• Brick Wall Band
• Bride Just Died
• Brigandage
• Broadside Outcasts
• Broken Bones
  Broken Bones
  Broken Bones are a Hardcore punk band with a distinct sound that is heavily influenced by other UKHC punk bands such as Discharge, and in later cases, crossover thrash.-Career:...
  
  
• Bronx
• The Brownies
• Bruce Wayne Band
  Sad Day We Left the Croft
  Sad Day We Left The Croft is a compilation album of punk bands from the Scottish Hebridean island of Lewis, recorded in 1980 and released in 1981, as a 12 inch vinyl LP on an independent record label, Adult Entertainments, based in Stornoway; and also in a cassette version by Croft Recordings. A...
  
  
• Brutal Attack
• B.T.P. Folders
• Bulldog Breed
• Bullets
• Bullseye
• The Bumpers
• Bunny Suicide
• Bunch Of Stiffs
• The Burial
  The Burial
  The Burial were an Oi! band that incorporated ska, northern soul and folk influences into their music. Formed in 1981 in Yorkshire, England, they released one album, A Day On The Town in 1988, and worked with Bradford‘s anarchist rant-poet Nick Toczek on various projects under the name Britanarchists...
  
  
• J. J. Burnel
  Jean-Jacques Burnel
  J. J. Burnel , is a Franco-English musician producer and songwriter, best known as the bass guitarist with the British rock band The Stranglers.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Bus Station Loonies
  Bus Station Loonies
  The Bus Station Loonies are a 'cabaret punk' band from Plymouth, England. They have been described as a cross between Dead Kennedys, Undertones, Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band....
  
  
• The Business
  The Business (band)
  The Business are an English Oi!/punk rock band formed in 1979 in Lewisham, South London. Their album Suburban Rebels became influential in the Oi! movement...
  
  
• Butcher
• The Buzz
• Buzzcocks
  Buzzcocks
  Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley.They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock. They achieved commercial...
  
  

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• Campaign 1
• Cane (Watford)
• The Cane (Torquay)
• Capital Punishment
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Capitalist Notion
• Capo Regime
• Captain Sensible
  Captain Sensible
  Captain Sensible is a singer, songwriter, guitarist who grew up in Croydon, England, and co-founded the punk rock band The Damned in 1976. After leaving the band, he reinvented himself as an alternative pop singer with a rebellious, self-conscious image...
  
  
• Cardiac Arrest
  Cardiacs
  Cardiacs are an English alternative rock/psychedelic pop band formed in 1977 and led by Tim Smith. Noted for their complex, varied and intense compositional style and for their eccentric, theatrical stage shows, they have been hailed as an influence by bands as diverse as Blur, Faith No More and...
  
  
• Cardiacs
  Cardiacs
  Cardiacs are an English alternative rock/psychedelic pop band formed in 1977 and led by Tim Smith. Noted for their complex, varied and intense compositional style and for their eccentric, theatrical stage shows, they have been hailed as an influence by bands as diverse as Blur, Faith No More and...
  
  
• Carl Gustav And The 84s
• Carnage
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Carpenter Joe
• The Carpettes
  The Carpettes
  The Carpettes are a punk rock band from Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, England, formed in 1977, who released two albums on Beggars Banquet Records and recorded two Peel sessions...
  
  
• Carsondown
• Case
• Cash Pussies
• Cassette
• The Cassettes
• Catch 22
• The Catholic Girls
  Lucy O'Brien
  Lucy O'Brien is an author and journalist whose work focuses on women in music.-Early musical and writing career:...
  
  
• Cathy La Creme & The Cro-Tones
• The Cause
• Celia & The Mutations
  The Stranglers
  The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...
  
  
• Chairman Youth
• Chaos
• Chaos UK (Bristol)
  Chaos UK
  Chaos UK are an English hardcore punk band formed in 1979 in Portishead, near Bristol. They played fast aggressive hardcore punk rock initially. The original line up of Simon on vocals, Andy on guitar, Chaos on bass and Potts on drums recorded two EP's and a full LP for Riot City Record...
  
  
• Chaos UK (London)
• Chaotic Dischord
  Chaotic Dischord
  Chaotic Dischord were a punk rock band from Bristol, England, formed by members of Vice Squad and their road crew in 1981. The band also recorded a one-off EP under the name Sex Aids.-History:...
  
  
• Chaotic Subversion
• Chaotic Youth
• Charge
• Charged GBH
  Charged GBH
  Charged GBH are an English Street punk band, formed in 1978 by vocalist Colin Abrahall, guitarist Colin "Jock" Blyth, bassist Sean McCarthy and Drummer Andy " Wilf" Williams. GBH were early pioneers of English street punk, often nicknamed "UK82", along with Discharge, Broken Bones, The Exploited...
  
  
• Chartreuse
• The Cheaters
• The Cheetahs
• The Chefs
  Helen McCookerybook
  Helen McCookerybook was the bass guitar player and lead singer with Brighton-based punk rock band The Chefs during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She later formed Helen and The Horns , before continuing her career as a solo artist, writer and lecturer...
  
  
• Chelsea
  Chelsea (band)
  Chelsea are an English punk rock band, formed in London in 1976.Three of the four original band members went on to help found Generation X. More than two decades after its release, "Right to Work", Chelsea's debut single, was included in Mojo magazine's list of the best punk rock singles of all...
  
  
• Chemical Billy
• Cherry Poppers
• Chester
• Billy Childish
  Billy Childish
  Billy Childish is an English artist, painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist...
  
  
• The Chimes
• China Drum
  China Drum
  China Drum were an English punk rock band from Ovingham in Northumberland active from 1989–2001, playing their final years under the name The Drum.-History:...
  
  
• China Street
• Chingford Attack
• Christ Moose
• Chron Gen
  Chron Gen
  Chron Gen were a British punk band formed in January 1978 in Letchworth, Hertfordshire.-History:Chron Gen initially comprised former members of The Condemned and Optional Xtras...
  
  
• The Chuddy Nuddies
• Chumbawamba
  Chumbawamba
  Chumbawamba is a British musical group who have, over a career spanning nearly three decades, played punk rock, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music...
  
  
• Chwarter I Un
• The Cigarettes
• Cindy and the Barbi Dolls
• Citizen Fish
  Citizen Fish
  Citizen Fish is a ska punk band that has been together since 1990. The band often makes strong social and political statements, dealing with themes such as anti-consumerism, vegetarianism, questioning the status quo, and encouraging people to get along with one another...
  
  
• The Citizens
• The City Limits
• The Clap
• The Clash
  The Clash
  The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly...
  
  
• Classified Protest
• Clay Fav
• The Clefts
• The Clerks
• Cliche
• The Clips
• Clockwork Criminals
• Clockwork Soldiers
• Close Rivals
• Close Shave
• The Clynics
• Cobra
• Cock Sparrer
  Cock Sparrer
  Cock Sparrer are a punk rock band formed in 1972 in the East End of London, England. Although they never enjoyed much commercial success, they are considered one of the most influential streetpunk bands, helping pave the way for the late-1970s punk scene and the Oi! subgenre...
  
  
• Cockney Rejects
  Cockney Rejects
  Cockney Rejects are an English punk rock band that formed in the East End of London in 1978. Their 1980 song "Oi, Oi, Oi" was the inspiration for the name of the Oi! music genre...
  
  
• Coconut Dogs
• Coil
• The Coils
• Cold War
• Collective Horizontal
• The Collectors
• Colors Out Of Time
• Colortapes
• Column 44
• Combat 84
  Combat 84
  Combat 84 were an English Oi! band active during the early 1980s. Formed in 1981 in Chelsea, London by skinheads 'Chubby' Chris Henderson and 'Deptford' John Armitage, Combat 84 rose to national prominence after being featured in a controversial 1982 BBC Arena documentary about the skinhead...
  
  
• Coming Shortly
• Commendables
• The Commercial Acrobats
• The Commercials
  The Commercials
  The Commercials is the 4th volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series of compilation albums by TVT Records. Released in 1989, it included a number of jingles ad commercials from different eras.-Overview:...
  
  
• The Commited
• The Commuters
• Compact Pussycat
• Complete Control
• Concrete
• The Condemned
• Condemned 84
  Condemned 84
  Condemned 84 is a British skinhead Oi! punk band. According to their website, the band was formed in 1980 as Criminal Tendencies, changing in 1983 to Condemned, and in 1984 to Condemned 84...
  
  
• Conflict
  Conflict (band)
  Conflict is an English anarcho-punk band originally based around Eltham in South London. Formed in 1981, the band's original line up consisted of: Colin Jerwood , Francisco 'Paco' Carreno , Big John , Steve , Pauline , Paul aka 'Nihilistic Nobody' . Their first release was the EP "The House That...
  
  
• Conflict of Nations
• Contact
• Contacts
• Contempt
• Control Zone (Newtownabbey)
• Control Zone (Omagh)
• The Co-ordinates
• The Corner Boys
• Hugh Cornwell
  Hugh Cornwell
  Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician and songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk/new wave group, The Stranglers, from 1974 to 1990.-Career:...
  
  
• Corridor One
• The Cortinas
  The Cortinas (punk band)
  The Cortinas were a 1970s Bristol-based punk rock band. Guitarist Nick Sheppard went on to play with The Clash. In 2001, the band’s debut single, "Fascist Dictator" , was included in a leading British music magazine’s list of the best punk-rock singles of all-time.-Biography:Named after a car, the...
  
  
• The Corvettes
• Council of Ancients
• Counter-Attack
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Court Martial
• The Cowards
• Cowboy Killers
• Cowboys International
  Cowboys International
  Cowboys International were a New Wave and synthpop band formed by vocalist and songwriter Ken Lockie that put out one album in 1979, the influential The Original Sin, and a handful of 45s before dissolving in 1980...
  
  
• The Cox
• The Crabs
• Crach
• The Crack (Hull)
• The Crack (London)
• Cracked Actors
  Tony Mills (musician)
  Tony Mills is an English musician and the vocalist in the Norwegian hard rock band TNT.Hailing from Birmingham, when he was 14 years old, he sang in his first band, the punk band The Rip-Offs, before joining fellow Birmingham punk band Cracked Actors as bass guitarist...
  
  
• Crafty Jack
• Cramp
• Crap
• Crash
• Crash .45
• The Crash Action Winners
• Crass
  Crass
  Crass are an English punk rock band that was formed in 1977, which promoted anarchism as a political ideology, way of living, and as a resistance movement. Crass popularised the seminal anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture, and advocated direct action, animal rights, and environmentalism...
  
  
• The Cravats
  The Cravats
  The Cravats are a punk rock band originally from Redditch, England, founded in 1977 by Robin Dallaway and The Shend . Further members were Svor Naan and Dave Bennett ....
  
  
• Craze
• The Crazed
• The Creatures
  The Creatures
  The Creatures were a musical act formed in 1981 as a side-project for Siouxsie and the Banshees members Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie. The Times described their music as "adventurous art rock built around Siouxsie's extraordinary voice and drummer Budgie's battery of percussion".With the dissolution of...
  
  
• The Crewsy Fixers
• The Crime
• Criminal Class
• Criminal Justice
• Criminal Sex
• The Crimmos
• Crisis
• Crispy Ambulance
  Crispy Ambulance
  Crispy Ambulance were an English rock band, formed in Manchester, United Kingdom in late 1977 by Alan Hempsall , Keith Darbyshire , Gary Madeley and Robert Davenport...
  
  
• Critical Press
• The Critics
• Crocodile God
• Crowbar
• The Crowd
• Crucified Mayhem
• Cruella De Ville
• The Cruize
• Crux
• Crysbas
• The Cuban Heels
• Cuddly Toys
  Cuddly Toys
  Cuddly Toys were a new wave band from London that grew out of the glam rock-influenced punk rock band The Raped.-Ice Cream:comming and going:...
  
  
• Clive Culbertson
  Clive Culbertson
  Clive Culbertson Clive Culbertson Clive Culbertson (born 28 August 1954, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland is the founder of The Order Of Druids In Ulster. He is a mystic, musician and healer. Culbertson trained with his friend and teacher, the late Ben McBrady, Aircinneac and Herenach of...
  
  
• The Cult (Sunderland)
• Cult Figures
• Cult Maniax
  Cult Maniax
  The Cult Maniax are an English punk rock band, that formed in Great Torrington, Devon in 1978. They had three indie hits in the mid-1980s before splitting up, although they reformed in the 1990s for occasional performances.-History:...
  
  
• Culture Shock
  Culture Shock (band)
  Culture Shock was an anarcho-punk / ska punk band formed in Warminster, Wiltshire, England, in 1986 by Dick Lucas, previously of the Subhumans. Over their four year history the band played hundreds of gigs, including frequent appearances at free festivals, and released three studio albums on the...
  
  
• Cwestion Da
• Cyanide
• The Cybermen
• Cyclon-B
• The Czechs

D

• D & V
• D. A. Band
• Da Biz
• The Daleks
• Damage
  Damage (band)
  Damage was a New York hardcore band circa 1983 to 1988.-Members:*Original members, 1983-1985: Boot , Mike Kirkland, Steve McAllister, Denny Morrison, Ted Warner....
  
  
• Damaged
• The Damned
• Dan
• Danger Zone
• Dangerous Girls
• Danny & The Dressmakers
• Dansette Damage
• The Dark
• The Darlex
• Das Schnitz
• Dave & The Die Hards
• Dave Bishop & The Apostles
• Dawn Patrol
• Day 21
  Day 21
  Day 21 are an English punk rock group, led by Jimmy Pursey.On 21 January 2008, Pursey announced that, due to ongoing confusion to fans, he would no longer be associated with the name Sham 69, and that his new band would perform under the name, Day 21....
  
  
• Dayshift
• The Daze
• The Dazzlers
• DC10's
• De Kuntz
• The Dead
• The Dead Airmen
• Dead Fingers Talk
• The Dead Heroes
• Dead Katss
• Dead Mans Shadow
• Dead To The World
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Dead Men Walking
  Dead Men Walking
  Dead Men Walking are a UK based rock band with a multi national line-up, who have toured the UK, Ireland and the U.S.-Career:They have released four albums: Live At Guildford , Live At Leeds , Live At Darwen , and Graveyard Smashes Volume 1...
  
  
• The Dead Pets
• Dead Set Against
• Dead Swans
  Dead Swans
  Dead Swans are a hardcore punk band from Brighton, England. They have released two EPs, Southern Blue, in 2008, and It's Starting, in 2009. Their split EP with Architects was also released in 2008. That same year, the band were nominated in the Best British Newcomer category at the Kerrang! Awards...
  
  
• Dead Trouts
• Dead Wretched
• Deadline
• Deadly Toys
• The Deaf Aids
• Deaf School
  Deaf School
  Deaf School are an English rock band, formed in the mid 1970s and hailing from Liverpool. Their style is somewhere in between pub rock, punk, glam rock and art rock. They originally disbanded after their third album but their influence lived on...
  
  
• Death Sentence
• Death Zone
• Debutantes
• The Deceased
• Decontrol
• The Decorators
  The Decorators
  The Decorators were a post punk band from Acton, London, England, formed in 1980. They released two albums before splitting up in 1984.The initial line-up of the band was Michael Bevan , Johnny Gilani , Steve Sandor , Joe Sax , and Allan Boroughs...
  
  
• The Ded Katz
• The Deep Freeze Mice
  The Deep Freeze Mice
  The Deep Freeze Mice were an English New Wave band that were active between 1979 and 1989. They were based in Leicester, and consisted of the core members Alan Jenkins , Sherree Lawrence , and Mick Bunnage...
  
  
• Deep Throats
• Defcon Zero
• Defect (Stoke-on-Trent)
• The Defectors
• The Defects (Belfast)
  The Defects
  The Defects were a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1979.-History:The band formed in 1978 with a line-up of Ian "Buck" Murdock , Marcus "Dukie" Duke , Geoff Gilmore, and Glenn Kingsmore...
  
  
• The Defects (Barnsley)
• The Defendants
• Defiant
• Defiant Pose
• Deformed
• Deja Vu
• Delayed Reaction
• The Deleted
• The Delinquents
• Delta 5
  Delta 5
  -Career:The original members of Delta 5, Julz Sale , Ros Allen and Bethan Peters , formed the band "on a lark", but soon became a part of the thriving Leeds post-punk scene, and later added Kelvin Knight on drums and Alan Riggs on guitar...
  
  
• Delusion
• Dementia
• Demob
  Demob (band)
  -1978-1983:Demob formed in late 1978 by guitarist Terry Elcock and drummer Johnny Melfah, and they were soon joined by Mike Howes , Tony Wakefield and Chris Rush . Howes ex-army skinhead friend Andy Kanonik soon joined, also on vocals...
  
  
• Demolition
• Demon Preacher
  Alien Sex Fiend
  Alien Sex Fiend is a deathrock band from the UK, composed of the married couple Nik Fiend and Mrs. Fiend . Currently, the band is based in Cardiff, Wales.-History:...
  
  
• The Demons
  Alien Sex Fiend
  Alien Sex Fiend is a deathrock band from the UK, composed of the married couple Nik Fiend and Mrs. Fiend . Currently, the band is based in Cardiff, Wales.-History:...
  
  
• Denizens
• The Dentists
  Nazi punk
  A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture. The term also describes the related type of music. Nazi punk music sounds similar to most forms of punk rock, but it differs by having lyrics that express hatred of Jews, homosexuals, communists, anarchists, anti-racists and people who...
  
  
• Department S
  Department S (band)
  Department S were a British new wave band formed in 1980, who took their stage name from the 1960s TV series Department S. They are best known for their debut single, "Is Vic There?", which was originally released in December 1980.-1980s:...
  
  
• The Depraved
• The Depressions
• Desperate Bicycles
  Desperate Bicycles
  The Desperate Bicycles were an English new wave group who released a series of independent recordings in the late 1970s and inspired many other bands to do likewise. The Desperate Bicycles pioneered the do-it-yourself ethic of punk, adopting a proselytising role exemplified by their ardent...
  
  
• Destination Venus
• The Destructors
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• The Detonators
• The Devil's Dykes
• The Devil's Hole Gang
• The Diabolists
• Tony Dial & Silhouette Theatre
  Neon Hearts
  Neon Hearts were a British punk rock band that originated in Wolverhampton, England.-Career:Neon Hearts were Wolverhampton's first punk band that had a short lived existence from 1977 to 1981 at the height of the punk movement....
  
  
• The Dials
• The Dicemen
• Dick Envy
• Dick Tracy & The Green Disaster
• The Different Eyes
• The Diffs
• Dig! Dig! Dig!
• Steve Diggle
  Steve Diggle
  Steve Diggle is a guitarist and vocalist in the British punk band Buzzcocks.-Early years:He was born in Manchester, and grew up in Bradford and Rusholme, where he was a mod...
  
  
• Digital Dinosaurs
• The Diks
• The Directors
  Avon Calling
  Avon Calling is an album of tracks featuring bands from Bristol, UK, on local record label Heartbeat Records, and was originally released in 1979...
  
  
• D.I.R.T.
  DIRT (band)
  DIRT were an anarcho-punk band from the UK. Initially formed in 1980 , the band frequently played with fellow anarchists Crass, before releasing their first EP, Object, Refuse, Reject, Abuse on the Crass Records label...
  
  
• The Dirtbox Funsters
• Dirty Dog
• Dirty Girls
  Sad Day We Left the Croft
  Sad Day We Left The Croft is a compilation album of punk bands from the Scottish Hebridean island of Lewis, recorded in 1980 and released in 1981, as a 12 inch vinyl LP on an independent record label, Adult Entertainments, based in Stornoway; and also in a cassette version by Croft Recordings. A...
  
  
• Dirty Noise
• Discharge (Stockton)
• Discharge (Stoke-on-Trent)
  Discharge (band)
  Discharge is a British hardcore punk band formed in 1977 by Terry "Tezz" Roberts and Roy "Rainy" Wainwright. They are often considered among one of the very first bands to play hardcore punk, and to mix punk with metal...
  
  
• Disco Students
• Disco Zombies
• Disease
• Disguise
• Disorder (Bristol)
  Disorder (band)
  Disorder are a hardcore punk band that formed in the Bristol area of the United Kingdom in 1980, and has existed with varying line-ups to this day. Faithful to anarcho-punk ethics, Disorder are a band who aligned with politically-charged punk bands like Crass and Conflict.-History:Disorder formed...
  
  
• Disorder (Sunderland)
• Disorganised Threat
• The Disrupters
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Dissolute Youth
• The Distractions
  The Distractions
  The Distractions are a British punk rock/new wave band from Manchester, England.-History:The band was originally formed in 1975 by college friends Mike Finney and Steve Perrin , alongside Lawrence Tickle and Tony Trap...
  
  
• The Distributors
• Disturbance
• The Disturbed
• Diverse Opera
• DNV
  Mike Scott (musician)
  Michael 'Mike' Scott is the founding member, lead singer and chief songwriter of rock band The Waterboys. He has also produced two solo albums, Bring 'em All In and Still Burning...
  
  
• Doc Savage
• Doctor
• Doctors of Madness
  Doctors of Madness
  Doctors of Madness were a British protopunk art rock band formed in 1974 in a cellar in Brixton, south London by the composer and lead singer/guitarist Richard Strange, known as ‘Kid’ Strange...
  
  
• The Dodgems
• The Dodos
• Dog Ugly
• Dogmatic Element
• Dogpiss
  Dogpiss
  Dogpiss was a successful but short lived punk band created in part by Julien "Joolz" Parkin, the former bassist and back up vocalist for Guns n' Wankers...
  
  
• Dogsbody
• Dogsflesh
  Dogsflesh
  Dogsflesh are an English UK82 Punk Rock band, formed in May 1982 by guitarist Rob Moore. Dogsflesh were early pioneers of English hardcore punk, often nicknamed "UK82", and were heavily influenced by The Exploited, GBH, Discharge, and Broken Bones....
  
  
• The Dole
• Dole Q
• The Doll
  The Doll (band)
  The Doll were a punk rock/new wave band from London, England, who had a top-thirty hit in 1978 with "Desire Me".-History:The Doll formed in October 1977 with a line-up of Marion Valentine , Adonis Yianni , Christos Yianni , and Mario Watts...
  
  
• Dolly Mixture
• Dome
  Dome (band)
  Dome was a musical group consisting of Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis .-Background:...
  
  
• Domestic Bliss
• Dominant Patri
• The Donkeys
• Doomed Youth
• The Door and The Window
  Mark Perry (musician)
  Mark Perry, also known as Mark P, was a British fanzine publisher and is a writer and musician.Perry was a bank clerk when, inspired by The Ramones, he founded the punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue in 1976...
  
  
• The Doubt
• Douglas
• John Dowie
  John Dowie (humourist)
  John Dowie is a British comedian, musician, and writer. He began performing stand-up comedy in 1969.-Career:Dowie was among the inaugural acts on Tony Wilson's Factory Records label. In 1978 he contributed three comedic songs to the first Factory music release, A Factory Sample, along with Joy...
  
  
• Dr and The Crippens
  Dr and The Crippens
  Dr and The Crippens are a British hardcore band from Lancaster who recorded and toured in the late 1980s/early 1990s. They became known for unusual costumes and innovative use of stage props during their live shows which included frequent use of an exploding head.The band recorded two sessions for...
  
  
• Draw Funny Animals
• The Dregs (Birmingham)
• The Dregs (London)
• Dresden
• The Drill
• The Drills
• The Drive
• The Drones
  The Drones (British band)
  The Drones were a punk rock band from Manchester, England. For a period of time, the band were produced and managed by Paul Morley.One critic wrote: "Bonafide DIY three-chord wonders, the Drones were there at punk’s inception."-Career:...
  
  
• Drongos For Europe
• Drop
• The Drug Addix
  Kirsty MacColl
  Kirsty Anna MacColl was an English singer-songwriter.MacColl scored several pop hits from the early 1980s to the early 1990s...
  
  
• Drug Squad
• Dry Rib
• The D.S.
• Duggie Briggs Band
• Duma Yarma
• The Dunneau
• The Dyaks
• Dyfatty Flats

E

• Easy Action
• Eater
  Eater
  Eater were an early British punk band from London who took their name from a Marc Bolan lyric. In 2001, the band’s second single, "Thinking of the USA" , was included in a leading British music magazine’s list of the best punk-rock singles of all-time...
  
  
• The Eccentrics
• Eddie and the Hot Rods
• Eddie Mooney & The Grave
  Eddie Mooney
  -Early career:Eddie Mooney , is a vocalist/bassist whose musical career has been with various rock and pop bands since the mid 1970s. Mooney joined his first teen pop group in Larne, Northern Ireland in 1974, called...
  
  
• The Edge
• Jimmy Edwards
  Masterswitch
  Masterswitch was a British rock band in the late 1970s.The Band consisted of five members:*Jimmy Edwards *Ray Simone *Steve Wilkes *Mark Steed *Martin Lee - Formation :...
  
  
• Jimmy Edwards and The Profile
  Masterswitch
  Masterswitch was a British rock band in the late 1970s.The Band consisted of five members:*Jimmy Edwards *Ray Simone *Steve Wilkes *Mark Steed *Martin Lee - Formation :...
  
  
• The Effigies
• The Egos
• The Ejected
• El Seven
• Elano B
• The Electrix
• Electro-Motive Force
• The Elevators
• Elfyn Presli ac y Massey Fergusons
• The Elite
• Elliot Ness and the G-Men
• John Ellis
  John Ellis (guitarist)
  John Ellis is an English guitarist and songwriter.-Career:He was a co-founder of the pub rock band Bazooka Joe in 1970 and a founding member of the punk rock band The Vibrators. Ellis formed The Vibrators in 1974 while still at art school studying illustration. The Vibrators released two albums...
  
  
• Elti-Fits
  Elti Fits
  Elti Fits were a punk rock band in Manchester, England in the late seventies and early eighties.-Description:The members were:*Bass - Nigel Ross*Drums - Karl Burns*Guitar - Graham Ellis*Vocals - Sarah Keynes...
  
  
• Elton Motello
  Elton Motello
  Elton Motello was a punk and New Wave band.Elton Motello is both the moniker of Alan Ward, the lead singer and songwriter, and the name of the band itself...
  
  
• Emanon
• Embryo
• Emergency
• Emergency Exit
• EMF (Electro Motive Force)
• Empire
  Generation X (band)
  Generation X was a British punk rock band, formed on 21 November 1976 by Billy Idol, Tony James and John Towe.-History:...
  
  
• The Employees
• Emptifish
• Empty Vessels
• End Result
• The Enemy
  The Enemy (UK punk band)
  The Enemy are a punk rock band from Derby, England, who formed in 1980, releasing two albums.-History:The Enemy formed in early 1980 in their local youth club, with several changes of personnel before they stabilized the following year as Mark Woodhouse , Steve "Mez" Mellors , Steve O'Donnell , and...
  
  
• Energy I.Q.
• The English
• English Dogs
  English Dogs
  English Dogs are a British crossover punk rock/heavy metal band that began life in the early eighties.-History:English Dogs formed in October 1981 in Grantham and produced two demos during 1982 entitled 'Show No Mercy' and 'Free To Kill'. The band toured as support to fellow punk band Charged GBH...
  
  
• English Rose
• English Subtitles
• The Enigma
• Epidemic
• The Epileptics
  Flux Of Pink Indians
  Flux of Pink Indians were an English anarcho-punk/post punk band, that originated from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.-Biography:...
  
  
• Eratics
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Erazerhead
• Ersatz
• Eryr Wen
• The Escorts
• Esprit De Corps
• Essential Bop
  Essential Bop
  Essential Bop were a Bristol based Post-Punk/Art band formed in early 1978 by Dave Robinson , with an initial line-up of Steve Bush , Mike Fewings , Simon Tyler , Nick Tufnell and Seng-gye Tombs Curtis...
  
  
• Essential Logic
  Essential Logic
  Essential Logic was a UK post-punk band formed by saxophonist Lora Logic after leaving X-Ray Spex.The band initially consisted of Lora Logic on saxophone and vocals, Phil Legg on guitar and vocals, William Bennett on guitar, Mark Turner on bass guitar, Rich Tea on drums, and Dave Wright on saxophone...
  
  
• The Ettes
• European Cowards
• Europeans
  Europeans (band)
  Europeans were a New Wave band formed in Bristol, England in 1977. The line-up was Jonathan Cole , Jon Klein , Steve Street and James Cole...
  
  
• Eve Of The Scream
• The Evening Outs
  Desperate Bicycles
  The Desperate Bicycles were an English new wave group who released a series of independent recordings in the late 1970s and inspired many other bands to do likewise. The Desperate Bicycles pioneered the do-it-yourself ethic of punk, adopting a proselytising role exemplified by their ardent...
  
  
• The Everreadys
• Everyone Else
• Evil Dead
• Evil Mothers
• Ex Pistols
  Ex Pistols
  The Ex Pistols were a scam act introduced in 1979 by one-time Sex Pistols producer Dave Goodman after his services were substituted for those of professional producers...
  
  
• Ex-Producers
• Excel
• The Excellerators
• The Executives
• Exhibit A
• The Exile
• Exit Condition
• The Exits (Battersea)
• The Exits (Stoke-on-Trent)
• Exitstance
  Exitstance
  Exitstance were a British anarcho-punk band on Mortarhate Records. They toured Europe with Crass and Conflict. Their only LP release was titled While Backs are Turned,and the E.P:Crime Against Humanity on....
  
  
• Exorcist
• The Expelled
  The Expelled
  The Expelled are a punk rock band first formed in July 1981 in Leeds, England. The original line-up consisted of Jo Ball , Tim Ramsden , Craig 'Macca' McEvoy and Rick Fox ....
  
  
• The Exploited
  The Exploited
  The Exploited are a Scottish punk band from the second wave of UK punk, formed in 1979. Originally a street punk band, they transformed into a faster hardcore punk band with a heavy political influence. From about 1987 on they changed into a crossover thrash band...
  
  
• Exposure
• External Menace
• The Eyes
  The Eyes (band)
  The Eyes was a British psychedelic rock band, formed in 1964 and disbanded in 1967. In 1965 and 1966, they released a number of singles such as When the Night Falls, The Immediate Pleasure and I'm Rowed Out....
  
  
• Eyes At Risk

F

• F3 (Function 3)
• Fab Food
• Faction
• Faded Vision
• The Faders
• Faintest Idea
• The Fakes
• The Fall
• Fallout
• False Idols
• Family Entertainers
• Family Fodder
  Family Fodder
  Family Fodder is a group of musicians revolving around accordionist Alig Fodder. Formed in London in the 1970s, it has had a sporadic existence ever since, disbanding in the 1980s then reforming. Their song "Dinosaur Sex" is considered a post-punk classic. They released a 12-inch single for Small...
  
  
• Family Of Noise
• Famous Explorers
• Famous Imposters
• Fan Club
• The Fans
• The Fascinators
• Fast Breeder (London)
• Fast Breeder (Manchester)
• Fast Cars
  Fast cars
  This is a progressive history of the world's fastest street-legal production car over the years .Comparing claimed speeds of the "fastest car in the world", especially in historical cases, is difficult due to there being no standardized method for determining the top speed, nor a central authority...
  
  
• Fatal Blow
• The Fatal Charm
  Fatal Charm
  Fatal Charm were a punk then rock/pop band from Nottingham, England.From 1980 onwards, their musical style was difficult to define; a variation on the rock/pop genre that defied comparison with other emerging UK acts such as Echo & the Bunnymen, The Cure, New Order and Ultravox, who were darker...
  
  
• Fatal Microbes
  Fatal Microbes
  Fatal Microbes were a UK punk group that existed in the late 1970s. Honey Bane was the lead singer. Other band members were Gem Stone on drums, Pete Fender on guitar, and Scotty Boy Barker who was briefly replaced as bassist by It .In 1979, Small Wonder and XNTRIX Records co-released a split...
  
  
• The Fauves
• The Features
• Feed The Rhino
  Feed The Rhino (band)
  Feed The Rhino are an English 'Noise & roll' band from Kent, England.-Members:Current members* Lee Tobin - vocals* James Colley - guitar, vocals* Sam Colley - guitar, vocals* Oz Craggs - bass* Chris Kybert - drums...
  
  
• The Fegs
• The Fence
• Pete Fender
• Fender Benders
• Fenzyx
• Fickle Youth
• The Fiend
• Fifty Fantastics
  The Members
  The Members are a British punk band that originated in Camberley, England. Their best known recording is "The Sound of the Suburbs" .-Career:...
  
  
• Fig.4.0
  Fig.4.0
  Fig 4.0 were a popular and influential harcore punk band from Leeds, UK. Formed in 1999 from the remnants of skacore act "Tinker's Rucksack", Fig 4.0 abandoned the comedy songs and ska covers of their previous incarnation in favour of a heavier metalcore sound and more personal lyrics...
  
  
• Fightback
• The Filaments
  The Filaments
  The Filaments are a street-punk band with brass. They formed in 2000 in Chelmsford, Essex UK. Influences cited include Rancid, The Clash, Operation Ivy, The Business, The 4-Skins, and The Specials.-Career:...
  
  
• The Filth
• Filthy Habits
• Final Warning
• Fire Engines
• Fire Exit
• Firing Squad
• First Among Equals
• The First Steps
• Fish Turned Human
• Fistfuck
• The Fits
  The Fits
  The Fits were a punk rock band from Blackpool, Lancashire, England, who were active between 1979 and 1985, having several hits on the UK Indie Chart.-History:...
  
  
• The Fitz
• Patrik Fitzgerald
  Patrik Fitzgerald
  Patrik Fitzgerald is a singer-songwriter. The son of working-class Irish immigrant parents, he began recording and performing during the punk rock movement in 1977, after working briefly as an actor.-Early recordings:His early songs were generally short, sarcastic efforts, recorded with just an...
  
  
• Five Darrens
• Five Knuckle
  Five Knuckle
  -History:Five Knuckle from Bristol, England formed in 1998, playing punk & hardcore influenced by Minor Threat, Refused, Anti-Flag, At the Drive-In and Choking Victim amongst others...
  
  
• The Fixx
• FK9
• Flack
• Flack Off
• Flag of Convenience
  Buzzcocks
  Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley.They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock. They achieved commercial...
  
  
• Flailing Wail
• Flamingo 50
  Flamingo 50
  Flamingo 50 was an English punk band from Liverpool. They released two albums, three EPs and four split records, and toured extensively in the UK and France.-Band members:*Louise Hanman, vocals and guitar*Morgan Brown, drums and vocals...
  
  
• Flea Circus
• Flemgods
• The Flicks
• Flipside
• The Flowers
• Flowers in the Dustbin
• The Flowers Of Romance
  The Flowers of Romance (band)
  The Flowers of Romance were an early punk band, formed in mid-1976 by Jo Faull and Sarah Hall. The band never played live or released any recordings, and, like London SS and Masters of the Backside, are more famed for the number of band members that later became well known, including: Sid Vicious...
  
  
• Flux of Pink Indians
  Flux Of Pink Indians
  Flux of Pink Indians were an English anarcho-punk/post punk band, that originated from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.-Biography:...
  
  
• Fly On The Wall
• The Flying Brix
• Flying Colours
• The Flying Lizards
  The Flying Lizards
  The Flying Lizards were an English experimental rock band, who were formed in 1976 in England. They are best remembered as New wave one-hit wonders, thanks to their deliberately eccentric cover of Barrett Strong's "Money", which became a UK and US chart success in 1979.-Career:Formed by and led by...
  
  
• The Flys
  The Flys (UK band)
  The Flys were a British punk rock band that originally formed in 1976 in Coventry, England. After the self-release of their initial EP, Bunch of Fives, they were signed by EMI Records. With EMI they released the albums Waikiki Beach Refugees and Own...
  
  
• Foeticide
• The Folk Devils
  The Folk Devils
  The Folk Devils were a 1980s post-punk ensemble born of the Notting Hill, West London music scene.Founding member Ian Lowery had previously been the original singer in late 1970s punk rock band The Wall and then signed to Killing Joke's Malicious Damage label as leader of the group Ski Patrol...
  
  
• The Force
• Foreign Legion
  Foreign Legion (band)
  Foreign Legion was a punk band from South Wales, often referred to as the longest running punk group in Wales.-1984–1991:Foreign Legion formed in 1984 from the ashes of a band called Society . The band released their first EP on their own label 'Rent a Racket'. Their first full-length album...
  
  
• Foreign Press
• The Form
• Forward Edge
• Four Guns
• The Four Kings
• Four Letter Word
• The Four Plugs
• The Frames (Cardiff)
• The Frames (Portsmouth)
• Frank Details
• Frank Sumatra And The Mob
  Family Fodder
  Family Fodder is a group of musicians revolving around accordionist Alig Fodder. Formed in London in the 1970s, it has had a sporadic existence ever since, disbanding in the 1980s then reforming. Their song "Dinosaur Sex" is considered a post-punk classic. They released a 12-inch single for Small...
  
  
• Frank Xerox and The Copy Cats
• Frantic Elevators
• Freefall
• The Freeze
  Cindytalk
  Cindytalk is an experimental music group fronted by Gordon Sharp, a Scottish performer who has been the only constant member since its inception in 1982.-History:...
  
  
• The Freshies
  The Freshies
  The Freshies were a punk band from Manchester, England formed in the late 1970s and dissolved in the early 1980s, fronted by singer and comedian Chris Sievey .-Career:...
  
  
• The Friction
• The Friendly Hopefuls
  Dave Goodman
  Dave Goodman was a record producer and musician, perhaps best known as the live sound engineer for Sex Pistols, and the producer of three of their studio demo sessions.-Sex Pistols:...
  
  
• The Front
• Fruit Eating Bears
• F.U.2
  Downliners Sect
  The Downliners Sect were a British rhythm and blues band of the beat boom era, formed in 1963 when the existing Downliners band split up.Stylistically, they were similar to The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things and the Rolling Stones, playing basic R&B on their first album The Sect...
  
  
• FUAL (Fuck Up And Live)
• Fublic Dick
• The Fulham Furies
• Fun 4
• Fun City
• Funboy Five
• Funeral in Berlin
• Funny Old World
  The Slowguns
  The Slowguns were a Stockport, England punk rock band whose brief career spanned two singles between 1978 and 1980. Although a part of the burgeoning local punk scene, the mod influence was obvious in both their sound and look...
  
  
• Future Bodies
• F.V.'s
• F-X

G

• G-Squad
• Gaffa
• The Galactic Symposium
• Gallows
  Gallows (band)
  Gallows are a hardcore punk band from Watford, England. The band was formed in 2005 after the disbandment of founding member Laurent Barnard's previous band, My Dad Joe. Gallows' debut album, Orchestra of Wolves, was distributed in the United States by Epitaph Records, and they were subsequently...
  
  
• Gambit of Shame
• Gang of Four
  Gang of Four (band)
  Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill...
  
  
• The Gangsters
• Garage Class
• Garbo's Celluloid Heroes
• The Gas
• The Gathering
• GBH
  Charged GBH
  Charged GBH are an English Street punk band, formed in 1978 by vocalist Colin Abrahall, guitarist Colin "Jock" Blyth, bassist Sean McCarthy and Drummer Andy " Wilf" Williams. GBH were early pioneers of English street punk, often nicknamed "UK82", along with Discharge, Broken Bones, The Exploited...
  
  
• General Accident
• Generation X
  Generation X (band)
  Generation X was a British punk rock band, formed on 21 November 1976 by Billy Idol, Tony James and John Towe.-History:...
  
  
• Generic
• Geneva
• Genocide Exit
• The Genocides
• The Gents
• Gentz
• The Get
• Gifted Children
• Gin Goblins
• Girl Guided Missiles
• Girls at Our Best!
  Girls at Our Best!
  Girls At Our Best! were a post-punk group, founded in Leeds, England in 1979 under the name The Butterflies, who had several UK Indie Chart hits.-History:...
  
  
• Gist
• Glass Points
• Glass Torpedoes
• Glaxo Babies
  Glaxo Babies
  Glaxo Babies were a Bristol-based UK post-punk group, formed in late 1977. There were three distinct phases in the bands life and after initially breaking up in 1980, they reformed in 1985, only to finally break-up again in 1990.-First phase:...
  
  
• Global Parasite
• Gloria Mundi
  Gloria Mundi
  Gloria Mundi was an early punk rock/gothic rock band. The name comes from the Latin for the glory of the world. This could be a reference to the phrase "Sic transit gloria mundi" meaning "this is how the glory of the world passes"....
  
  
• The Glory
• Go-Attic
• Go Heads
• Gobblinz
• God's Gift
• God's Toys
• Godburger
• Going Red
  Graham Fellows
  Graham David Fellows is an English comedy actor and musician, best known for creating the characters of John Shuttleworth and Jilted John.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Golant Pistons
• Goldblade
  Goldblade
  Goldblade are an English punk rock band from Manchester, England. The band formed in early 1995 when ex Membranes frontman, John Robb, put the band together with Wayne Simmons and former A Witness vocalist Keith Curtis on bass, Rob Haynes on drums and Jay Taylor on guitar.The band signed to...
  
  
• Golinski Brothers
• The Gonads
  Garry Bushell
  Garry Bushell is an English newspaper columnist, rock music journalist, television presenter, author and political activist. Bushell also sings in the Oi! band The Gonads and manages the New York City Oi! band Maninblack. Bushell's recurring themes are comedy, country and class...
  
  
• The Good Missionaries
  Alternative TV
  Alternative TV were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976. Their punk rock and post-punk sound was influential for several musical artists.-History:...
  
  
• Dave Goodman and Friends
  Dave Goodman
  Dave Goodman was a record producer and musician, perhaps best known as the live sound engineer for Sex Pistols, and the producer of three of their studio demo sessions.-Sex Pistols:...
  
  
• Gordon the Moron
  Graham Fellows
  Graham David Fellows is an English comedy actor and musician, best known for creating the characters of John Shuttleworth and Jilted John.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Gorillas
  The Gorillas
  The Gorillas were a rock group from Hammersmith, London, England formed in 1974, and fronted by Jesse Hector, who played high energy rock music.-History:...
  
  
• Grade 1
• Graff X
• Graffiti
• Gratis
• Great British Heroes
• The Greedies
  The Professionals (band)
  The Professionals were an English punk rock band in the late 1970s and early 1980s formed by ex-Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and drummer and Paul Cook after that band's demise.-Career:...
  
  
• Greeting No. 4
• The Grids
• Grime
• Grimly Fiendish
• Grinder
• Grip
• The Groove
• The Gross Club
• The Grout
• The GTs
• Guilty Ones
• Guitar Gangsters
• Guns For Hire
• Guns n' Wankers
  Guns n' Wankers
  Guns 'N' Wankers were a punk rock band, formed by ex-members of British punk band Snuff, and British rock band The Wildhearts in the early 1990s. The band consisted of Duncan Redmonds , Patrice Walters and Joolz Dean...
  
  
• Gutshot
• The Gymslips
  The Gymslips
  -Career:The original band of Suzanne Scott , Paula Richards and Karen Yarnell got together in 1980 but first played as The Gymslips in August 1981. The band supported the Dolly Mixture on a UK tour. They contributed the song Midnight city all girl compilation LP, "Making Waves"...
  
  
• Gyppo
• Gyro

H

• Hades Whores
• Hagar the Womb
  Hagar the Womb
  Hagar the Womb were an English punk rock band, active in the early 1980s and part of the Anarcho-punk movement. Members went on to form We are Going to Eat You and Melt.-History:...
  
  
• The Haircuts
• Half Tore
• Hamilton
• The Hammers
• Hammersmith Gorillas
  The Gorillas
  The Gorillas were a rock group from Hammersmith, London, England formed in 1974, and fronted by Jesse Hector, who played high energy rock music.-History:...
  
  
• Billy Hamon
• The Happy Refugees
• Harbour
• Hardware
• Ian G. Harling
• Harlow
  Steve Hogarth
  Steve Hogarth also known as "h", is the lead vocalist and occasional keyboardist/guitarist with the British rock band Marillion. Hogarth was formerly a keyboard player and co-lead vocalist with The Europeans and vocalist with How We Live...
  
  
• Charlie Harper
• Harvest
• The Hats
• Haywire
• H.D.Q.
• The Head
• Headache
• Thee Headcoats
  Thee Headcoats
  Thee Headcoats 1989 - 2000, was a band comprising Billy Childish, Bruce Brand, and Johnny Johnson. Childish was featured on guitar and vocals, Brand on drums and backing vocals, and Johnson on bass. The band was the most prolific of Childish's many musical projects, releasing fourteen full...
  
  
• Thee Headcoatees
  Thee Headcoatees
  Thee Headcoatees is a band that was formed in the Medway Garage Scene in north Kent, England in 1991. The members of this all girl band were Holly Golightly, Kyra LaRubia, Ludella Black and "Bongo" Debbie Green.-Formation:...
  
  
• HeadGames
• Health Hazard
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Heavy Cochran
• The Heartthrobs
• The Heat
• Helpless Huw
• Helsinki 5 Below
• Helter Skelter
• Henry Essence
• The Heretics
• Herod's Race
• The Heroes
• Hi-Rise
• The Hickeys
• Hit Parade
• The Hoax
• Hobbies of Today
• The Hobbs
• Homespun
• Homicide
• The Homosexuals
  The Homosexuals
  The Homosexuals are a punk band formed in 1978. They were born out of the ashes of The Rejects.- History :The Rejects were formed at Goldsmith's College in South London in 1976, when Bruno Wizard recruited a young songwriter named Ian Kane to help express his disquiet with the modern world and...
  
  
• Honey Bane
  Honey Bane
  Honey Bane is an English singer and actress, possibly best known for her 1981 UK Top 40 single "Turn Me On Turn Me Off"....
  
  
• Hooton 3 Car
  Hooton 3 Car
  Hooton 3 Car is a British punk band. The band's members are Graham Williams , Chris Petty Hywell Maggs and Jon Jesson .-Discography:* Spot Daylight...
  
  
• Hornsey At War
• Horrible Nurds
• Horrorcomic
• Hostile Youth
• Hot Club
  Glen Matlock
  Glen Matlock is an English bass guitarist most famous for being in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs and most of the lyrics, while lead singer Johnny Rotten made some adjustments...
  
  
• Hot Press & The Silent Knights
• Hot Water
• How?
• Human Cabbages

I

• I Jog & The Tracksuits
• I Mobster
• Icon A.D.
• Iconoclasts
• The Icons
• Icons of Filth
  Icons of Filth
  Icons of Filth were an influential British anarcho-punk band that disbanded in 2004, after the unexpected death of its lead singer Andrew Sewell, or Stiggy Smeg.-Early history:...
  
  
• Identity Crisis
• Idiot
• The Idiots
• The Idol Threats
• The Idols
  The Idols with Sid Vicious
  The Idols with Sid Vicious is a concert album of former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious performing with The Idols; though recorded in 1979, it wasn't released until 1993. Steve Dior provided a recording of this performance to the New Rose record label. It was originally released by the Fan Club...
  
  
• The Ignerents
• I.K.
• Illegal Sane
• I'm Dead
• I'm So Hollow
• Immortal Invisibles
• The Immortals
• Impact
• Impalers
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Imperfect Youth
• In Camera
• In The Gym
• In The Shit
• The InCiders
  The inciders
  -Background:The InCiders , are a hardcore punk/metal band, based in Bournemouth, UK. The band formed in 2003 and are well known locally for their lively stage shows , catchy punk rock rants and drunken party mascot, "Ciderman".Although still relatively unknown on the national punk scene they have...
  
  
• Indecent Assault
  Indecent assault
  Indecent assault is an offence of aggravated assault in many jurisdictions. It is characterised as a sex crime.Indecent assault was an offence in England and Wales under sections 14 and 15 the Sexual Offences Act 1956...
  
  
• Indecent Exposure
• The Indestructible Beat
  The Newtown Neurotics
  The Newtown Neurotics were an English punk rock/post-punk group formed in 1979. They were noted for their openly political music.-History:...
  
  
• Index
  Troy Tate
  Troy Tate is a musician and record producer who was a member of several bands including The Teardrop Explodes and Fashion as well as working as a solo artist.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Indifferent Dance Centre
• The Industrial Chipmunks
• Infa-Riot
• The Infested
• Inflatable Dolls
• The Infra Red Helicopters
• The Injectors
• Innocent Bystanders
• Innocent Vicars
• The Innocents
  The Innocents (UK punk band)
  The Innocents formed in the spring of 1978 and played frequently with The Clash and The Slits. The original lineup was predominantly female with four women and one male....
  
  
• The Insane
• The Inserts
• The Insex
• Instant Agony
• The Instant Automatons
• Instigators
  Instigators
  Instigators were an anarcho-punk band from Dewsbury, England, formed in 1980. The original line-up split up in the mid-1980s, but the band carried on into the 1990s.-History:...
  
  
• Insurrection
• The Intensive Breeders
• Intensive Care
• International Spys
• The Intestines
• Intravein
• The Introze
• The Invaders ("Launderama")
• The Invaders (West Yorkshire)
• IQ Zero
• The Isaws
• Ishmael United
  Ishmael (Ian Smale)
  Ishmael was born in 1950. He has had an international ministry since playing in the acoustic duo Ishmael and Andy with Andy Piercy starting in 1970...
  
  

J

• Tony Jacksun
• The Jags
  The Jags
  The Jags were a British rock band formed in London in 1978, and composed of Nick Watkinson , John Alder , Steve Prudence , Alex Baird , Michael Cotton and Patrick O'Toole ....
  
  
• Jake Burns and the Big Wheel
  Jake Burns and the Big Wheel
  Jake Burns and the Big Wheel were a band put together by former Stiff Little Fingers vocalist Jake Burns in 1983. The band consisted of Jake, Steve Grantley on drums, Sean Martin on bass guitar, and Pete Saunders on keyboards...
  
  
• Jakpak
• The Jam
  The Jam
  The Jam were an English punk rock/New Wave/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were formed in Woking, Surrey. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore smartly tailored suits rather than ripped...
  
  
• The Jangletties
• Jayni & The Limit
• J.C.'s Mainmen
  The Members
  The Members are a British punk band that originated in Camberley, England. Their best known recording is "The Sound of the Suburbs" .-Career:...
  
  
• J.C.B.
• Jeep
• The Jeff Hill Band
• Jeff Jinx and the Gems
• Jerry Jamrag & The Afterbirths
• The Jelly Babies
• The Jerks
• The Jermz
• Jesse James
  Jesse James (band)
  Jesse James were a pop punk band from London, England. They formed in 2000, and toured the UK, Europe and Canada. Their first release, the "Shoes EP" was a hit in the UK, due to repeated television play of the video for the song, "Shoes". Later releases included the "Hotwired EP", Punk Soul...
  
  
• Jet Bronx & The Forbidden
• The Jets (Luton)
• The Jets ("Tearaway")
• The Jetz
• Jilted John
• The Jiving Daleks
• Joe 9T & The Thunderbirds
• Joe Cool and the Killers
• Joe Dash
• Joe Public
• Joe Sope
• John The Postman
  John the Postman
  Jon the Postman is a punk rock singer from Manchester. Among his various jobs, the best known was that of a postman, hence the nickname.-Biography:...
  
  
• Johnny & The Self Abusers
  Simple Minds
  Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band who achieved worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s and best known for their #1 US, Canada and Netherlands hit single "Don't You ", from the soundtrack of the...
  
  
• Johnny Curious & The Strangers
• Johnny Moped
  Johnny Moped
  Johnny Moped were a mid 1970s English punk rock group from south London, who once had Chrissie Hynde and Captain Sensible within their ranks.-Biography:...
  
  
• Johnny Zhivago
  Johnny Zhivago
  Johnny Zhivago were a British punk rock band, that took their name from a fictitious band mentioned in the book A Clockwork Orange. Heaven 17 were another band whose name originated in A Clockwork Orange.-Origins:...
  
  
• Jonny Rubbish
• The Jolt
  The Jolt
  The Jolt were a Scottish band formed in Glasgow in 1976.They started out playing 1960s covers and then sped up their music, playing a mix of punk rock and power pop. The lineup was Robbie Collins, Jim Doak and Iain Shedden. The band built up its following playing at the Crown Hotel, Wishaw. They...
  
  
• Jonnie & The Lubes
• Josef K
  Josef K (band)
  Josef K were a Scottish post-punk band, active between 1979 and 1982, who released singles on the Postcard Records label. The band was named after the protagonist of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial...
  
  
• Joy Division
  Joy Division
  Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...
  
  
• Julie and Gordon
  Graham Fellows
  Graham David Fellows is an English comedy actor and musician, best known for creating the characters of John Shuttleworth and Jilted John.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Jump
• Jump Squad
• Junk Art
• Just Destiny
• The Just Measurers
  The Homosexuals
  The Homosexuals are a punk band formed in 1978. They were born out of the ashes of The Rejects.- History :The Rejects were formed at Goldsmith's College in South London in 1976, when Bruno Wizard recruited a young songwriter named Ian Kane to help express his disquiet with the modern world and...
  
  
• Just The Job

K

• K-OSS
• The K9's
• Kadger Jaks
• The Kaiser's Advisers
• The Kaotixx
• Katmandu
• Katz
• Kevin Short And His Privates
• Kickstarts
• Kidz Next Door
• Killing Joke
  Killing Joke
  Killing Joke are an English post-punk band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England; other sources report the band formed in early 1979.Related news articles: Founding members Jaz Coleman and Geordie Walker have been the only constant members.A key influence on industrial rock,...
  
  
• The Killjoys (Birmingham)
  The Killjoys (UK band)
  The Killjoys were a punk rock/new wave band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1976, with members including Kevin Rowland and Kevin "Al" Archer, who would later form Dexys Midnight Runners, and Ghislaine 'Gil' Weston who would later join Girlschool...
  
  
• The Killjoys (Stoke-on-Trent)
• Kinetic NRG
• King
  Captain Sensible
  Captain Sensible is a singer, songwriter, guitarist who grew up in Croydon, England, and co-founded the punk rock band The Damned in 1976. After leaving the band, he reinvented himself as an alternative pop singer with a rebellious, self-conscious image...
  
  
• The Kitchens
• Klingons
• Knife Edge
• Knopov’s Political Package
• Knox
  Knox (musician)
  Knox also known as I.M. Carnarchan is a British musician and founding member of the seminal punk band The Vibrators.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Knuckle Dusters
• Kronstadt Uprising
  Kronstadt Uprising (band)
  This article is about the band Kronstadt Uprising. For information about the historical event see Kronstadt UprisingKrondstadt Uprising were an anarcho-punk band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK during the 1980s.-History:...
  
  
• Krypton Tunes
• Kulturkampf

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• L-OX
• L98
• Lack of Knowledge
• Lamella
• The Last Gang
• Last Orders
• The Last Resort (Herne Bay)
• The Last Resort (Oxford)
• Last Rites
• Last Rough Cause
• The Last Stand
• Last Words
• Laughing Gass
• L.A.W.
• The Lazers
• LD50
• Le Ritz
• Leatherface
  Leatherface (band)
  Leatherface is a British punk rock band from Sunderland fronted by Frankie Stubbs. The band is known for an eclectic style spanning American folk music, hardcore punk and post-hardcore.-History and background:...
  
  
• The Legendary Flobs
• The Legendary Luton Kippers
• The Legion of Parasites
• Lemon Kittens
• Lenny And The Law Breakers
• The Leopards
• Lethal Dose
• Leyton Buzzards
  Leyton Buzzards
  The Leyton Buzzards aka The Buzzards were a British rock band, active between 1976 and 1980, best known for their minor hit single, "Saturday Night ".-Career:...
  
  
• L.F.B.
• Liar
• Liberace Coughs Up Blood
• Liberty
• The Lice
• The Licks
• The Lids
• Life Support
• The Liggers
• Lightning Raiders
  Lightning Raiders
  -History:The Lightning Raiders formed in August 1977 with an original lineup featuring John Hodge on guitar, Andy Allan on guitar/vocals, ex-Pink Fairies Duncan Sanderson on bass/vocals, Jorge Panchito on drums and Michael Wilding on sax.In February 1978 ex-Pink Fairies drummer/singer Twink...
  
  
• The Lillettes
• The Limit
• The Limps
• Linda And The Dark
• The Lines
• Lip Moves
• Lips
• Liquid Stone
• The Living Daylights
• Living Legends
• Living Nightmare
• Llygod Ffyrnig
• Loaded Forty Fours
• Local Heroes
• Lockjaw
  Lockjaw (band)
  - Members :* Gary Bower - vocals* Stuart Hinton - guitar* Simon Gallup - bass* Martin Ordish - drums- Discography :* Radio Call Sign / The Young Ones in November 1977...
  
  
• Lora Logic
  Lora Logic
  Lora Logic is a British saxophonist and singer. She was briefly a member of the band X Ray Spex, although she had been sacked from that group by the time they recorded their first album, which nevertheless used her saxophone arrangements. A year later she formed Essential Logic...
  
  
• London
  London (band)
  London were a four piece punk band formed in London in 1976 and were best known for their wild stage act. The original line-up was Riff Regan , Steve Voice , Jon Moss and Dave Wight . They were managed by Simon Napier-Bell and recorded two singles, a 4 track EP and an album for MCA Records in 1977...
  
  
• London Cowboys
• London Pride
• London PX
  London PX
  London PX are a punk rock group formed by four friends from North London in 1979 they existed in various forms until 1982 and after a reunion in 2007 have reformed. They produced two singles, Orders and Arnold Layne and a cassette album "Not Music", additionally they have featured on various Punk...
  
  
• London SS
  London SS
  London SS were an early British punk rock group founded in March 1975 by guitarist Mick Jones and bassist Tony James.The band spent most of their short history auditioning potential members. Besides Jones and James, however, guitarist Brian James was the only other semi-permanent member...
  
  
• London Zoo
  Robert Sandall
  Robert Sandall was a British musician, music journalist and radio presenter. He was best known for presenting, with Mark Russell, BBC Radio 3's Mixing It programme from 1990 until 2007. After ending on Radio 3 the show moved to Resonance FM in London, where it continued under the name Where's the...
  
  
• Longport Buzz
• Look Mummy Clowns
• The Lords of the New Church
  The Lords of the New Church
  The Lords of the New Church were an English/American post-punk supergroup with a line-up consisting of four musicians from prominent 1970s punk bands...
  
  
• The Losers
• Lost Cause
• Lost Cherrees
  Lost Cherrees
  -History:The Lost Cherrees were formed in 1979/1980 by Steve Battershill , Dave Greaves and Siân Jeffreys vocalist. After a period of rehearsal, six demo tracks were recorded and released on a tape cassette 'The Worst Demo Ever Recorded At Hark Studios, Kingston', this was a split release with...
  
  
• Lou Reichner Band
• Lovers Of Today
• Low Profyle
• Lucky Ones
• The Lucky Saddles
  The Lurkers
  The Lurkers were a late 1970s English punk rock group from Uxbridge, West London, notable for being the first group ever on Beggars Banquet Records.-Career:...
  
  
• Lucy
  Lucy (band)
  Lucy were an English punk band featuring Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen.The first line-up of this band featured lead vocalist Paul Mewse, guitarist Phil Collen, bassist Peter Ferris, and drummer Len Foster...
  
  
• Ludus
  Ludus
  Luduș is a town in central Romania in Mureș County, 44 km south-west from the county's capital Târgu Mureș.Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămeşti , Cioarga , Ciurgău , Fundătura , Gheja and Roșiori .-History:* 1330 - First mentioned as Plehanus de...
  
  
• Luglo Slugs
• Lunatic Fringe
• The Lurkers
  The Lurkers
  The Lurkers were a late 1970s English punk rock group from Uxbridge, West London, notable for being the first group ever on Beggars Banquet Records.-Career:...
  
  
• Luxound Deluxe
• Luxury Item

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• The Macc Lads
• Machine
• The Machines
  The Machines (band)
  The Machines are an English Punk Rock ‘n’ Roll band, formed in 1977 by Nick Paul in Southend-on-Sea. The band initially lasted until 1978, before regenerating in 2006....
  
  
• The Mad Are Sane
• Mad Dog
• Madkaps
• Mafia
• Magazine
  Magazine (band)
  Magazine are an English post-punk group active from 1977 to 1981, then reformed in 2009. Their debut single, "Shot by Both Sides", is now acknowledged as a classic and their debut album, Real Life, is still widely admired as one of the greatest albums of all time...
  
  
• The Magazine Spies (Mag/Spys)
  The Magazine Spies
  The Magazine Spies were an English post-punk band from the town of Horley. They were active during 1979 and 1980, and are notable for band members who went on to play in The Cure, Fools Dance and related projects...
  
  
• Magic Michael
• The Magits
• The Magnificent
• The Magnificent 7
• Maimed
• Major Accident
• Malice
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• The Managing Directors
• Mandible Rumpus
• Maneaters
  Toyah Willcox
  Toyah Ann Willcox is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years Toyah has had 13 top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, as well as voicing and presenting numerous television shows...
  
  
• Mania
  Mania (band)
  Mania was a British pop duo, composed of Niara Scarlett and Giselle Sommerville. The two met while contributing songwriting for the British pop production house, Xenomania, and formed Mania in 2004...
  
  
• Maniac
• The Maniacs
• Manic Jab
• Manicured Noise
• Manufactured Freedom
• Manufactured Romance
  Manufactured Romance
  Manufactured Romance was a pop punk band from London, England, who were active from 1979 until 1982. Although only two studio tracks were recorded while the band was active, the band achieved note and considerable later anthologisation....
  
  
• Marine Girls
  Marine Girls
  Marine Girls were a post-punk group from Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The group was formed in 1980, by two sixth form school friends: Tracey Thorn and Gina Hartman. Originally, Thorn just played guitar and Hartman was the lead vocalist and percussionist. Thorn overcame her shyness and started singing...
  
  
• The Martian Schoolgirls
• Martin & The Brownshirts
• Martyr
• Masscara
• Masters Of The Backsides
• Masterswitch
  Masterswitch
  Masterswitch was a British rock band in the late 1970s.The Band consisted of five members:*Jimmy Edwards *Ray Simone *Steve Wilkes *Mark Steed *Martin Lee - Formation :...
  
  
• Matt Black & The Doodlebugs
• Matt Vinyl & The Decorators
• Mau Maus
• Maxim's Trash
  Captain Sensible
  Captain Sensible is a singer, songwriter, guitarist who grew up in Croydon, England, and co-founded the punk rock band The Damned in 1976. After leaving the band, he reinvented himself as an alternative pop singer with a rebellious, self-conscious image...
  
  
• Maximum Joy
  Maximum Joy
  Maximum Joy were a post-punk band from Bristol, England.When the Glaxo Babies split in 1979, Tony Wrafter formed Maximum Joy with Janine Rainforth , and they were later joined by Dan Catsis and Charlie Llewellin , and John Waddington...
  
  
• Mayhem
• Mean Street
• Mean Street Dealers
• The Meat
• The Media
• The Mekons
• The Members
  The Members
  The Members are a British punk band that originated in Camberley, England. Their best known recording is "The Sound of the Suburbs" .-Career:...
  
  
• The Membranes
  The Membranes
  The Membranes were a post-punk band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1977, the initial line-up being John Robb , Mark Tilton , Martin Critchley and Martin Kelly . Critchley soon left, with Robb and Tilton taking on vocals, and Kelly moving to keyboards, with "Coofy Sid" taking over on drums...
  
  
• Menace
• The Mental
• Mentol Errors
• Mercenary Skank
• Mere Dead Men
  Mere Dead Men
  Mere Dead Men is a British punk band. Formed in 1986 from the break-up of a number of other punk bands, MDM have released several albums, toured the UK, and played in various venues across Europe .-Albums:*Stacks, Stilettos, Make Up and Mohicans*Carry on MDM*United We Stand*Let's Do It...
  
  
• Messages To Debutantes
• The Method
• Metro Youth
• Metropak
  Metropak
  Metropak was a post-punk band, active in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1979 and 1980. Band members were Stephen Harrison , Robin Thistlethwaite , Murray Bruce , Toni McVittie and Helen Rutherford . Metropak played many venues in and around Edinburgh...
  
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• The Mice
• Midnight Circus
• Midnite Cruiser
• Mike Malignant and the Parasites
• The Milk
• Milk From Cheltenham
  The Homosexuals
  The Homosexuals are a punk band formed in 1978. They were born out of the ashes of The Rejects.- History :The Rejects were formed at Goldsmith's College in South London in 1976, when Bruno Wizard recruited a young songwriter named Ian Kane to help express his disquiet with the modern world and...
  
  
• Million Dead
  Million Dead
  Million Dead were a hardcore punk band from London, UK, active between 2001 and 2005.-History:The band was founded in 2000 by Cameron Dean and Julia Ruzicka, after both came to London from Australia. They were joined by Ben Dawson, who had worked with Dean in a record shop in the city...
  
  
• Minor Classics
• Miracle Cure
• Mirror Boys
• The Mirrors
• Missing Presumed Dead
• Misspent Youth (Birmingham)
• Misspent Youth (London)
• Mistaken Identity
• The Mistakes
• Mixies Men
• The Mob
• Model Mania
• Model Workers
• The Models
  The Models
  The Models was a short-lived punk band formed in Harrow, London, England. It consisted in Cliff Fox on vocals and guitar, Marco Pirroni on guitar, Mick Allen on bass and Terry Day on drums....
  
  
• The Modernaires
• The Mo-dettes
  The Mo-dettes
  The Mo-dettes were an all-female punk band, formed in 1979 by Kate Korris, an original member of The Slits and brief member of The Raincoats, and Jane Crockford, former member of The Bank of Dresden.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Molesters
• The Monitors
• Monkish
• The Monks
• The Monochrome Set
  The Monochrome Set
  The Monochrome Set are an English post-punk band originally formed in 1978 from the remnants of a college group called The B-Sides...
  
  
• Monoconics
• The Moondogs (Derry)
  The Moondogs
  The Moondogs are a Northern Irish rock band formed in 1979, and consisting of Gerry McCandless, Austin Barrett and Jackie Hamilton. The band has had a career spanning three albums, four singles, and two television programmes to date.-Singles:-Albums:...
  
  
• The Moondogs (Liverpool)
• The Moors Murderers
  The Moors Murderers
  The Moors Murderers were a short-lived punk band who caused controversy by naming themselves after The Moors Murders. The band was founded in 1977 by Steve Strange , later to be in Visage, and comprised Chrissie Hynde , later in The Pretenders, Tex , Topper Headon , who was then borrowed from The...
  
  
• Moral Support
• Morbid Humour
• Morris And The Minors
• Moskow
  The Bolshoi
  The Bolshoi were a London-based music group prominent mostly in the mid-late 1980s. They are best known for the hits "Sunday Morning" and "A way" or "Away" .-History:...
  
  
• The Mothers
• Mouth To Mouth
• Moving Targets
• MPs
• The MPs
• Mr Chipps
• Mr Zippy
  Mr Zippy
  - Overview :Formed in the coastal town of Clevedon, North Somerset in 1993, Mr Zippy have been playing their own take on skate punk since 1993. Drawing on their influences ranging from Satanic Surfers, Face to Face, Bad Religion, Ramones, SNFU, Faith No More, Iron Maiden and Samiam, Mr Zippy are...
  
  
• Mud Hutters
• Muff Divin' Spiders
• Muggins Blight
• Murder Inc.
• Murder The Disturbed
• Music For The Deaf
• The Mutants
• Mutants of the Holocaust
• Mutilated Jelly
• Mutley and the Dogs
• Muvvers Pride
• M.W.A.B.
• William Mysterious
  Alastair Donaldson
  Alastair Donaldson is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist and is a bass guitar player for the Scottish punk/pop band The Rezillos, for whom he played under the stage name of William Mysterious. He was a formative member of the folk ensemble Silly Wizard prior to his involvement with The Rezillos, and...
  
  
• The Mysterious Footsteps

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• Nada
• Naked
• The Names
• The Narcotics
• Nasty Media
• Natchband
• National Outrage
• Naughty
• The Nauseators
• Nauty Culture
• Nazis Against Fascism
• The Neat
• Neck
  Neck (Band)
  Neck is a six-piece Celtic punk band from the North London neighbourhood of 'County Holloway' . Led by Leeson O'Keeffe, a former member of Shane MacGowan and the Popes, the band blends traditional Irish music with punk rock...
  
  
• The Need
• The Needles
• Negative Earth
• Negative Zone
• The Negatives (Bradford)
• The Negatives (Manchester)
• The Negativz
• Neo
  Neo (UK band)
  Neo was an early New Wave band which was part of the Engish musical scene originated by punk in the 1970s. The group was formed by the American-born singer Ian North, who was the frontman and the only continuous member from the band formation in 1977 to the end in 1979.-Early days: Radio:In 1976,...
  
  
• Neon
• Neon Barbs
• Neon Hearts
  Neon Hearts
  Neon Hearts were a British punk rock band that originated in Wolverhampton, England.-Career:Neon Hearts were Wolverhampton's first punk band that had a short lived existence from 1977 to 1981 at the height of the punk movement....
  
  
• The Nerve Blocks
• The Nerves (Newry)
• The Nerves (Stafford)
• Nervous Condition
• Neurotic Outsiders
  Neurotic Outsiders
  Neurotic Outsiders was a supergroup founded in 1995, consisting of Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, Matt Sorum and Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, and John Taylor of Duran Duran. The very first line-up featured Billy Idol and Steve Stevens , but they were soon replaced by Jones and Taylor...
  
  
• New Blood
• The Neurotics
  The Newtown Neurotics
  The Newtown Neurotics were an English punk rock/post-punk group formed in 1979. They were noted for their openly political music.-History:...
  
  
• Neville Wanker & The Punters
• New Hearts
  New Hearts
  New Hearts were a British band from London, England.-Biography:New Hearts evolved out of college band Splitz Kidz, who met at Loughton College, comprising Ian Page , Dave Cairns , John Harty and drummer Rob Milne. At the start of 1977, Milne was replaced by Matt McIntyre...
  
  
• New Model Army
  New Model Army (band)
  New Model Army are an English rock band, who were formed in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1980. They have been variously classified by Allmusic as post-punk and alternative rock.-Overview:...
  
  
• The New Subterraneans
• New York Scumhaters
• Colin Newman
  Colin Newman
  Colin Newman is an English musician, record producer and record label owner.-Biography:Newman is a member of the rock band Wire. When the band temporarily split in 1980, Newman pursued a solo career. His first solo LP, A-Z, was released in 1980 on the Beggar's Banquet label...
  
  
• Richard Newman
• Pete Newnham/THE
• The News
  The News (band)
  The News was a short-lived New Wave band formed in 1977, by Sam Smith , Graham Culpin , Lindsay Elliott , Richard James Burgess and Michael Taylor .In the early days of 1978, the band signed a recording contract with GTO and, in the first weeks of the year, they recorded...
  
  
• Newtown Grunts
• The Newtown Neurotics
  The Newtown Neurotics
  The Newtown Neurotics were an English punk rock/post-punk group formed in 1979. They were noted for their openly political music.-History:...
  
  
• Next Step
• The Nice Men
• Nicky & The Dots
• Nicky Beat & The Beatniks
• Night Pilots
• The Nightingales
  The Nightingales
  The Nightingales are a British punk/alternative band formed in 1979 in Birmingham, England. Original members were Robert Lloyd , Joe Crow on guitar, Eamonn Duffy on bass and Paul Apperley on drums, all formerly of The Prefects...
  
  
• Nightrider
• Nightshift
• The Nimnules
• Nipple Erectors (the Nips)
• No Choice
• No Cover
• No Defences
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• No Label
• No Respect
• No Support
• No Sweat (Belfast)
  Clive Culbertson
  Clive Culbertson Clive Culbertson Clive Culbertson (born 28 August 1954, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland is the founder of The Order Of Druids In Ulster. He is a mystic, musician and healer. Culbertson trained with his friend and teacher, the late Ben McBrady, Aircinneac and Herenach of...
  
  
• No Sweat (London)
• No Warning
• No Way
• Danbert Nobacon
  Danbert Nobacon
  Danbert Nobacon was a vocalist and occasional keyboard player in the Leeds based anarchist band Chumbawamba...
  
  
• The Nobodyz
• The Noise
• Noise Annoys
  Sad Day We Left the Croft
  Sad Day We Left The Croft is a compilation album of punk bands from the Scottish Hebridean island of Lewis, recorded in 1980 and released in 1981, as a 12 inch vinyl LP on an independent record label, Adult Entertainments, based in Stornoway; and also in a cassette version by Croft Recordings. A...
  
  
• The Noise Toys
• Noiz Boiz
• Noizboys
• Noize Toys
• Noizebleed
• Nomadic Dissident Sect
• Norman and The Hooligans
• Normil Hawaiians
• Newton Aycliffe
• The Nosebleeds
  The Nosebleeds
  The Nosebleeds was a short-lived punk band formed in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England in 1976. Though the band never recorded an album and released just one single, it is well known in modern rock history for the later successes of its individual members...
  
  
• Not Sensibles
• Not So Brave
• The Now
  The Now
  The Now are a late 1970s English punk rock group from Peterborough, England. Whilst never officially disbanding, they ceased recording and performing in 1979. In 2004, The Now recorded all of their original material and released as the Fuzztone Fizzadelic album in 2005 on the Damaged Goods record...
  
  
• Nuclear Socketts
• The Nukes
• Null and Void
• The Numbers
• The Nylonz

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• O Level
• The Objeks
• Obnoxious Tartus
• Obscene Toys
• Observers
• The Obsessed
• The Obsessions
• The Obtainers
• Obvious Action
• Occult Punk Band
• Gene October
  Gene October
  Gene October is an English musician, best known as the singer for the punk rock band, Chelsea.October was instrumental in the creation of the punk venue The Roxy, persuading the manager of gay London nightclub, 'Shageramas', to convert the club to cater for a punk clientele...
  
  
• The Odds
• The Odeons
• Offensive Weapon
• Oi Polloi
  Oi Polloi
  Oi Polloi are an anarcho-punk band from Scotland that formed around 1981. Starting as an Oi! band, they are generally associated more with the anarcho-punk genre. More recently the band have become notable for their contributions to the Scottish Gaelic punk subgenre...
  
  
• The Ol' Rene's
• Omega Tribe
  Omega Tribe
  Omega Tribe was an English anarcho-punk band, formed in Barnet in 1981. Their first EP, Angry Songs, was produced by Penny Rimbaud and Pete Fender for Crass Records in 1982....
  
  
• One Gang Logic
• One Man's Meat
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• The One Takes
• One Way System
  One Way System
  One Way System is a street punk band formed in the Fleetwood area of Lancashire, England in 1979.-Career:One Way System had an initial line-up of Craig Halliday , Gavin Whyte , Tez Mcdonald and Gaz Buckley...
  
  
• The Only Ones
  The Only Ones
  The Only Ones are an English rock band. They were initially active in the late 1970s and were associated with punk rock, yet straddled the musical territory in between punk, power pop and hard rock, with noticeable influences from psychedelia...
  
  
• Onslaught (Hertfordshire)
• Onslaught (London)
• Open Sore
• The Oppressed
  The Oppressed
  The Oppressed is a Welsh anti-fascist Oi! band that formed in 1981 in Cardiff. Most of the musicians in the band's various lineups were skinheads. Throughout the band's career, the members openly expressed opposition to racism and fascism — in their lyrics, interviews, on-stage comments and other...
  
  
• The Optimists
• The Oral Exciters
• The Ordinarys
• Organised Chaos
  Wessex '82
  The Wessex '82 7" is a split extended play release by UK punk bands The Subhumans, The Pagans, Organised Chaos and The A-Heads. Each band contributes one track to the record...
  
  
• Original Mind Band
• The Oscillators
• Wavis O'Shave
• The Others
• Ouida And The Numbers
• The Out
• The Outcasts
• Out Of Order
• Out On Blue Six
• The Outpatients
• Outrage
• Outrageous Flesh
• The Outsiders
  The Outsiders (British band)
  The Outsiders were an early British punk rock group from Wimbledon, England. Their debut LP, Calling On Youth, was the first self-released punk album in the UK.Adrian Borland was central to the group, manning vocals and guitar. Bob Lawrence was on bass,...
  
  
• The Outskirts
• The Ovaltinees
• Oxy and the Morons

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• P45
• The Pack
  Theatre of Hate
  Theatre of Hate were a post-punk band formed in Britain in 1980.Led by singer-songwriter and ex-member of punk band The Pack, Kirk Brandon, the original group also consisted of: guitarist Steve Guthrie, bassist Stan Stammers , saxophonist John Lennard and drummer Luke Rendle from Crisis/The...
  
  
• The Pagans
  Wessex '82
  The Wessex '82 7" is a split extended play release by UK punk bands The Subhumans, The Pagans, Organised Chaos and The A-Heads. Each band contributes one track to the record...
  
  
• Page 3
• Panic
• The Panic Parade
• Panik (Willington)
• The Panik (Manchester)
• Pant
• Paradise Lost
• Paradox
• The Paramedic Squad
• Paranoia
• The Paranoids
• The Parasites
• Parc Troli
• Paris And The Atmospheres
• The Parrots / Vol Sec
• The Partisans
• Partizans
• The Passengers
• The Passion Killers
• The Passions
  The Passions
  The Passions were a British band which formed in 1978, and disbanded in 1983. They were one-hit wonders with their misty song, "I'm in Love with a German Film Star". which was released in early 1981.-Career:...
  
  
• The Pathetix
• Patrol
• Patterns
• Paul Jensen & The Car Thieves
• Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls
  The Invisible Girls
  The Invisible Girls were a British rock band, formed in Salford, Greater Manchester in 1978, to provide a musical backdrop to the recorded output of Salford punk poet John Cooper Clarke...
  
  
• The Pea-shooters
  The Slowguns
  The Slowguns were a Stockport, England punk rock band whose brief career spanned two singles between 1978 and 1980. Although a part of the burgeoning local punk scene, the mod influence was obvious in both their sound and look...
  
  
• The Peasants
• The Pedestrians
• The Pencils (Paisley)
• Pendleton
  Pendleton (band)
  Pendleton was a four piece skate punk band from Manchester, England. They were formed in 2000 and went through several incarnations before becoming Pendleton in 2002 when several of the band members met at the University of Salford...
  
  
• Penetration
  Penetration (band)
  Penetration is a punk rock band from County Durham, England formed in 1976. They re-formed in 2001 with several new members.Their debut single, "Don’t Dictate", is now acknowledged as a classic punk rock single and their debut album, Moving Targets , is still widely admired-Biography:The lead...
  
  
• Perfect Crime
• The Perfectors
• Performing Ferrets
• Peroxide
• Peroxide Romance
• Mark Perry
  Mark Perry (musician)
  Mark Perry, also known as Mark P, was a British fanzine publisher and is a writer and musician.Perry was a bank clerk when, inspired by The Ramones, he founded the punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue in 1976...
  
  
• Pete Stride & John Plain
  The Lurkers
  The Lurkers were a late 1970s English punk rock group from Uxbridge, West London, notable for being the first group ever on Beggars Banquet Records.-Career:...
  
  
• Pete The Meat And The Boys
• Peter and the Test Tube Babies
  Peter and the Test Tube Babies
  Peter and the Test Tube Babies are a punk rock band that was formed in the small town of Peacehaven, England in 1978 by Del Strangefish and Peter Bywaters. Due to their humorous tongue-in-cheek lyrics, they have been considered part of the Punk Pathetique subgenre...
  
  
• The Petticoats
• Phantoms Of The Underground
• Phinius Gage
  Phinius Gage
  Phinius Gage were an established UK underground skate punk band who started up in 2002. They have received regular airplay on national BBC Radio 1's punk rock show The Lock Up - including a session at Maida Vale studios - and are featured on MTV", and in magazines including Rock Sound, Big Cheese,...
  
  
• The Phonads
• Phones Sportsman Band
  Swell Maps
  Swell Maps were an experimental English rock group of the 1970s from Birmingham that foreshadowed the birth of post-punk.Influenced by the disparate likes of T.Rex and the German progressive outfit, Can, they created a new soundscape that would be heavily mined by others in the post-punk era...
  
  
• The Photos
  The Photos
  The Photos were a British new wave band fronted by Wendy Wu, who had a top 5 album in the UK in 1980.-History:The Photos were originally a punk band named Satan's Rats that formed in Evesham, Worcestershire in 1977, with the first stable line-up of Paul Rencher , Steve Eagles , Roy Wilkes , and...
  
  
• Physical Wrecks
• The Physicals
• Picture Frame Seduction
  Picture Frame Seduction
  Picture Frame Seduction is a hardcore punk band from Haverfordwest, Wales. The band's influences included their peers of the day, Charged GBH and Discharge. With many other bands of the time like The Varukers, they helped develop the hardcore punk scene in the United Kingdom in the early to mid...
  
  
• The Pierres
• Pig
• The Pigs
• The Pink Flamingos
• Pink Turds In Space
• The Pinkies
• The Pinkoes
• Suzi Pinns
  Jubilee (1977 film)
  Jubilee is a 1977 cult film directed by Derek Jarman. It stars Jenny Runacre, Ian Charleson, and a host of punk rockers. The title refers to the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 1977.-Plot:...
  
  
• Pinpoint
• The Piranhas
  The Piranhas
  The Piranhas were a ska-influenced punk band from Brighton.- Career :They were formed in 1977, and were originally part of the Brighton punk scene, first coming to prominence when DJ John Peel started playing their single "I Don't Want My Body" on his BBC Radio 1 programme, but achieved their...
  
  
• The Pistons
• The Pitiful
• The Pits (London/Stoke-on-Trent)
• The Pits (Norwich)
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Placebo Effect
• The Plague (London)
• The Plague (Kent)
• The Plague (Stoke-on-Trent)
• Plain Characters
  The The
  The The are an English musical and multimedia group that have been active in various forms since 1979, with singer/songwriter Matt Johnson being the only constant band member.-Early years :...
  
  
• The Planets
  Deaf School
  Deaf School are an English rock band, formed in the mid 1970s and hailing from Liverpool. Their style is somewhere in between pub rock, punk, glam rock and art rock. They originally disbanded after their third album but their influence lived on...
  
  
• The Plastic People
• Plastic Sandwiches
• Plastics
• Plastix
• The Platinum Needles
• The Plight
• The Plugs (Cathedral Records)
• The Plugs (Stevenage)
• PMT
• Pneumania
• The Poems
  Strawberry Switchblade
  Strawberry Switchblade was a female pop rock band formed in Scotland in 1981 by Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall, best known for their song "Since Yesterday" in 1985.-Before being signed:...
  
  
• Poison Girls
  Poison Girls
  The Poison Girls were an English anarcho-punk band. The female singer/guitarist, Vi Subversa, was a middle-aged mother of two at the band's inception, and wrote songs that explored sexuality and gender roles, usually from an anarchist perspective...
  
  
• Polemic
• Political Asylum
• Politicide
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• The Polka Dots
• The Polluted
• Pop Detectives
• The Pop Group
  The Pop Group
  The Pop Group are a British post-punk band from Bristol, England, formed in 1978, whose dissonant sound spanned punk, free jazz, funk and dub reggae. Their lyrics were often political in nature...
  
  
• Pop Rivets
  Billy Childish
  Billy Childish is an English artist, painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist...
  
  
• The Popes
• Pork Dukes
  Pork Dukes
  -Singles:* "Bend and Flush" b/w "Throbbing Gristle" * "Making Bacon" b/w "Tight Pussy" * "Telephone Masturbator" b/w "Melody Makers" * "Pop Stars" b/w "Save the Pigs, Burn the Fucking Farmers "...
  
  
• Pornocop
• The Pose
• The Posers
• Positive Action
• Positive Reaction
• Post Mortem
• Post War
• Potential Threat
• Potential Victim
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• PragVEC
  PragVEC
  prag VEC were a post-punk band from London, probably most famous for the song "Cigarettes" on their debut EP: We can sit about, talk about the kinds of fags we smoke and for the reference to them in the Half Man Half Biscuit song "prag VEC at the Melkweg"....
  
  
• The Prams
• The Prats
  The Prats
  The Prats were an Edinburgh-based punk rock group, active from 1977 to 1981. More recently, their track "General Davis" was featured in the opening credits of Jonathan Demme's 2004 film, The Manchurian Candidate.-History:...
  
  
• Precious Little
  The Banned
  The Banned are a fictional band in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. The storyline aired in 1986 and although it was considered to be a failure on-screen, it nevertheless became a successful part of the serial's extensive merchandising industry that year, as it spawned two Hit singles in the UK Music...
  
  
• Predator
• The Prefects
  The Prefects
  The Prefects were a punk band from Birmingham, United Kingdom, with members that would later form The Nightingales.-History:In 1976 singer Robert Lloyd, with guitarist/drummer brothers Alan and Paul Apperley formed after an advert was placed by the Apperley brothers in the Birmingham Evening Mail....
  
  
• Premature Death
• The Press
  Medium Medium
  Medium Medium were a post-punk band from Nottingham, England, initially active between 1978 and 1983.-History:Emerging in 1978 out of Nottingham punk/rhythm & blues band The Press, Medium Medium's debut single was "Them or Me", which was released in late 1978 and was still selling well enough in...
  
  
• Press Studs
• Pressure
  Thomas Leer
  Thomas Leer is a British musician who as well as releasing a number of albums and singles in his own right, was also one half of the 1980s electropop band Act...
  
  
• Pressure Stops
• Pressure Drop
• Pretty Boy Floyd & The Gems
• The Prey
• Thee Primebeats
• Primitive
• The Prisoners (Huddersfield)
• Private Dicks
• Private Sector
• Private Vices
• The Privates
• Probing Holes
• The Product
• Product 109
• Produkt
• The Professionals
  The Professionals (band)
  The Professionals were an English punk rock band in the late 1970s and early 1980s formed by ex-Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and drummer and Paul Cook after that band's demise.-Career:...
  
  
• Program
• The Proles (London)
• The Proles (Middlesbrough)
• Prospect Zero
• Protest
• Protex
• Pseud Case
• Pseudo Existors
• Pseudo Sadists
• Psycho Faction
• Psycho Normal & His Stiff Victims
• The Psychos
• Psykik Volts
• Public Disgrace
• Public Disturbance (Cardiff)
• Public Disturbance (Crook)
• Public Image Ltd
• Public Pisstake
  Jimmy Pursey
  Jimmy Pursey is an English singer and record producer. He was the founder and frontman of the English punk rock band, Sham 69 from 1976 to 1980, and from 1986 to 2006.-Biography:...
  
  
• Public Toys
• Public Zone
• The Pullovers
• Pumphouse Gang
• Punching Holes
• Puncture
  Puncture (band)
  Puncture was an early English punk group. Founded in the summer of 1976, this Islington, London based, four-piece combo consisted of Paul McCallum , Steve Counsel , Jak Stafford and "The Fabulous" Marty Truss...
  
  
• Punishment of Luxury
  Punishment of Luxury
  Punishment of Luxury, also known as Punilux, are a four-man post-punk band from Newcastle, England, who were active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They released an album Laughing Academy on United Artists, and another on Red Rhino Records...
  
  
• The Punkettes
• Punktuation
• Pure Mania
• Pure Product
• Puritan Guitars
• Purity 16
• The Purple Helmets
  The Stranglers
  The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...
  
  
• Jimmy Pursey
  Jimmy Pursey
  Jimmy Pursey is an English singer and record producer. He was the founder and frontman of the English punk rock band, Sham 69 from 1976 to 1980, and from 1986 to 2006.-Biography:...
  
  
• Push
• PVC2
• The Pylons

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• R21
• The Rabbits
• Rabid
  Rabid (band)
  Rabid were a punk rock band from Leicester, England, active between 1979 and 1986.-History:Rabid formed in 1979, undergoing several line-up changes before settling on Nick Edwards , Dean Grant , and Paul Rayner , and Keith Penny...
  
  
• Rabid Grannies
• Rabies
• Radiation
• Radio Active
• The Radio Actors
• Radio Blank
  Radio Blank
  Radio Blank was a short-lived R&B and punk band formed on the Wirral Peninsula, in November 1976, by Alan Gill , Keith Hartley , David Balfe and Steven Brick ....
  
  
• Radio City
• Radio Stars
  Radio Stars
  Radio Stars are an English new wave group formed in early 1977. They released three albums and had one UK Top 40 single.-Biography:Radio Stars were formed by ex-John's Children vocalist Andy Ellison, Sparks exile Martin Gordon , and Ian MacLeod in 1977, following the end of their underachieving...
  
  
• The Rage
• Raggity Anne
• The Raincoats
  The Raincoats
  The Raincoats are a British post-punk band. Ana da Silva and Gina Birch formed the group in 1977 while they were students at Hornsey College of Art, London, England.-Career:...
  
  
• R.A.M-M.A.N
• Rampant Nasties
• Rampant Thrust
• Rancid Hell Spawn
  Rancid Hell Spawn
  Rancid Hell Spawn was a punk rock band, active between 1988 and 1995.Discovered in London the band released five albums and three extended plays. Rancid Hell Spawn also provided two songs for the soundtrack of Dennis Worden's "Stickboy" music video in 1993. Their music was characterized by a...
  
  
• Random Files
• The Raped
  Cuddly Toys
  Cuddly Toys were a new wave band from London that grew out of the glam rock-influenced punk rock band The Raped.-Ice Cream:comming and going:...
  
  
• The Rat and The Whale
  Rat Scabies
  Christopher Millar , better known by his stage name Rat Scabies, is a musician best known for his tenure as the drummer for The Damned....
  
  
• The Rats
• Rattling Throntons
• Razar
• Reacta
• The Reaction
  Talk Talk
  Talk Talk were an English musical group, active from 1981 to 1991. The group had a string of international hit singles including "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It" and "Living in Another World"....
  
  
• The Realists
• Reality
• Reality Control
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Really 3rds
• Re'bel (Northern Ireland)
• Rebel
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• The Rebels
• The Received
• The Record Players
• Rectify
• Red Alert
  Red Alert (band)
  Red Alert were а British punk/oi!-band, formed in Sunderland, England, in May 1979. The quartet recorded three studio albums and appeared on numerous compilations, including Punk And Disorderly and Carry On Oi! . Three of the band's releases reached UK Indie Charts Top 30...
  
  
• Red Flag 77
  Red Flag 77
  Red Flag 77 are a punk rock band from Ipswich, England. Formed in 1990, Red Flag have compiled a healthy fanbase - The 'Flag Army' are fans from all over the UK and Europe where Red Flag have toured. The band recorded their first album, Punk not Dread, after playing just three gigs...
  
  
• Red Letters
• The Red Lights
• Red London
  Red London
  Red London is a punk band that was formed in December 1981 influenced by The Clash, Chelsea, SLF, The Angelic Upstarts, The Ruts and The Jam. By 1983 they were signed to Razor Records. Their first release was the "Sten Guns in Sunderland" EP in 1983 followed by the "This is England" LP in 1984...
  
  
• Red Rage
• The Red Squares
• Red Stripe
• The Redskins
  The Redskins
  The Redskins were a 1980s English band, notable for their left-wing politics and catchy, danceable songs. Their music combined influences from soul, rockabilly, pop and punk rock.- History :...
  
  
• The Reducers
• The Redundants
• The Reflections
  Mark Perry (musician)
  Mark Perry, also known as Mark P, was a British fanzine publisher and is a writer and musician.Perry was a bank clerk when, inspired by The Ramones, he founded the punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue in 1976...
  
  
• Reflex Action
• Regal Zone
• Riff Regan
  Miles Tredinnick
  Miles Tredinnick, also known as Riff Regan, is a rock musician, songwriter and a stage and screen writer. In the 1970s, he was the lead singer with the British rock band London. Afterwards he went on to write comedy plays for the stage...
  
  
• The Regents
• The Regulators
• The Rejected
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• The Rejects
  The Homosexuals
  The Homosexuals are a punk band formed in 1978. They were born out of the ashes of The Rejects.- History :The Rejects were formed at Goldsmith's College in South London in 1976, when Bruno Wizard recruited a young songwriter named Ian Kane to help express his disquiet with the modern world and...
  
  
• Rek
• Rema-Rema
  Rema-Rema
  Rema-Rema was a short-lived English music group, consisting of Gary Asquith , Marco Pirroni , Mick Allen , Mark Cox and Max ....
  
  
• The Reporters (Bolton)
• The Reporters (Dorking)
• The Reps
• Reptile Ranch
• Reptiles
• Repulsive Alien
• The Resistance
• Resistance 77
• The Resisters
• The Rest
• The Restarts
  The Restarts
  The Restarts are a street punk band from London, England.They formed in 1995 in London with Darragh on drums, Kieran from Armed and Hammered on bass, and Mik on the guitar. They played many shows in the UK with their three-piece until Mik left, at which point Alan joined the band...
  
  
• The Restricted
• Restricted Code
  Tom Cannavan
  Tom Cannavan is a Scottish author and a wine journalist. He is considered a pioneer presence on internet of the British wine writing establishment.-Biography:...
  
  
• Restricted Hours
• Rev Counta & The Speedoze
  Ishmael (Ian Smale)
  Ishmael was born in 1950. He has had an international ministry since playing in the acoustic duo Ishmael and Andy with Andy Piercy starting in 1970...
  
  
• Rev Volting & The Backstabbers
• Revenge
• The Review
• The Revillos
• Revolt
• Revulsion
• Reward System
  Reward system
  In neuroscience, the reward system is a collection of brain structures which attempts to regulate and control behavior by inducing pleasurable effects...
  
  
• Rex Barker & The Ricochets
• The Rezillos
  The Rezillos
  The Rezillos are a punk/new wave band, who formed in Edinburgh in 1976 and still play gigs around the world in a re-formed line-up. Although frequently aligned with the punk movement, the Rezillos' irreverent glam rock image and affection for campy girl-group iconography, set them distinctly apart...
  
  
• The Rezizters
• Rhesus Negative
• The Rhodesians
• Rhythm Clicks
  Penetration (band)
  Penetration is a punk rock band from County Durham, England formed in 1976. They re-formed in 2001 with several new members.Their debut single, "Don’t Dictate", is now acknowledged as a classic punk rock single and their debut album, Moving Targets , is still widely admired-Biography:The lead...
  
  
• Rhythm Method
• Rhythm Methodists
• The Rich Kids
  The Rich Kids
  Rich Kids were a short-lived, seminal new wave band from London, founded in 1977 by Glen Matlock following his departure from The Sex Pistols. The band also included future Ultravox member Midge Ure, and Rusty Egan, who later went to found Visage.-Career:...
  
  
• Richard And The Tax Men
• Riff Raff
• The Right Profile
• Rikki and the Last Days of Earth
  Rikki and the Last Days of Earth
  Rikki and the Last Days of Earth were a British musical group and one of the early punk groups. They are chronicled in Henrik Poulsen's book 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave...
  
  
• The Rings
  Twink (musician)
  John Charles Alder , better known as Twink, is an English drummer, singer and songwriter who was a central figure in the English psychedelic movement, and an actor.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Riot/Clone
  Riot/Clone
  Riot/Clone was a punk band often associated with the anarcho-punk scene, active from 1979–1983 and then revived in the early 90's until they split up again in 2005. The band were originally known as Riot but the name became Riot/Clone after two members of the original lineup wanted the band's name...
  
  
• Riot Squad (Mansfield)
  Riot Squad
  Riot Squad were a second-wave punk rock band from Mansfield, England, initially active between 1981 and 1984.-History:Riot Squad formed in 1981, with an initial line-up of Duncan "Dunk" Mason , Nigel "Nello" Nelson , and Paul "Pommi" Palmer , Nelson the only one of the three with any musical...
  
  
• Riot Squad (Northern Ireland)
• The Riotous Brothers
• The Rip Offs
• Rip Snorter
• The Ripchords
• The Risk
• Ritchie Hale and the Stormers
• Ritual
  Ritual (band)
  Ritual was an early 1980s Harrow-based post-punk band that, as of late, has been aligned with the early UK-based gothic rock movement. The group is more commonly associated with the bands the former members took up arms with: In Excelsis and Death Cult .-Formation:Ritual was formed out of the...
  
  
• Rival Savages
• The Rivals (Ramsgate)
  The Rivals (band)
  The Rivals were an English punk band from Ramsgate, Kent.-History:Mark Edwards and Paul Leinster were boyhood friends. Tired of playing air guitar to the likes of Diamond Dogs and '20th Century Boy', the teenaged Edwards bought a real guitar, a Les Paul copy, in 1976...
  
  
• The Rivals (South London)
• The Rivvits
• The Roaring 80s
• Robert And The Remoulds
• Steve Roberts
  The Exploited
  The Exploited are a Scottish punk band from the second wave of UK punk, formed in 1979. Originally a street punk band, they transformed into a faster hardcore punk band with a heavy political influence. From about 1987 on they changed into a crossover thrash band...
  
  
• The Rogues
• ROI
  The 4-Skins
  The 4-Skins are a working class Oi! punk rock band from the East End of London, England. Originally composed of Gary Hodges , 'Hoxton' Tom McCourt , Steve 'H' Hamer and Gary Hitchcock , they formed in 1979 and disbanded in 1984 – although new line-ups formed in 2007 and 2008...
  
  
• Rollerco
• The Romford Stompers
• The Rong
  Sad Day We Left the Croft
  Sad Day We Left The Croft is a compilation album of punk bands from the Scottish Hebridean island of Lewis, recorded in 1980 and released in 1981, as a 12 inch vinyl LP on an independent record label, Adult Entertainments, based in Stornoway; and also in a cassette version by Croft Recordings. A...
  
  
• Rose Coloured Nightmares
• Roses are Red
  Roses are red
  "Roses are red" can refer to a specific poem, or a class of doggerel poems inspired by that poem. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19798. It is most commonly used as a love poem.The most common modern form of the poem is:...
  
  
• Rotavators
• Rotten Frank Kelly
• Rouge
• The Rowdies (London)
• The Rowdies (Worcester)
• Royston
• RU12
• Rubella Ballet
  Rubella Ballet
  Rubella Ballet are a punk rock band formed in autumn, 1979, who released several albums before splitting up in 1991. They reformed in 2000.-History:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Rudimentary Peni
  Rudimentary Peni
  Rudimentary Peni are a British anarcho-punk/deathrock band formed in 1980.-Line-up:*Nick Blinko - guitar, vocals, artwork, lyrics*Grant Matthews - bass guitar, lyrics*Jon Greville - drums-History:...
  
  
• Rudy and the Russians
• 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....
  
  
• Running Dogs (Essex)
• The Running Dogs (Norfolk)
• The Running Sores
• The Runs
• The Russians
• The Ruts
  The Ruts
  The Ruts were a reggae-influenced British punk rock band, notable for the 1979 Top 10 hit "Babylon's Burning", and an earlier single "In a Rut", which was not a hit but was much played and highly regarded by the UK BBC Radio 1 disc jockey, John Peel.-Career:...
  
  
• Ruts D.C.
  The Ruts
  The Ruts were a reggae-influenced British punk rock band, notable for the 1979 Top 10 hit "Babylon's Burning", and an earlier single "In a Rut", which was not a hit but was much played and highly regarded by the UK BBC Radio 1 disc jockey, John Peel.-Career:...
  
  

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• S-Haters
• SA55
• Sabotage
• Sadistic Politicians
• Sadistic Slobs
• Saigon
• The Salford Jets
• Sample And Hold
• The Samples
• S.A.S. (Speak Against Society)
• Satan's Rats
• The Satellites
  Danny Heatley (musician)
  DanHeatley is a musician. He played drums for a band called Shane MacGowan and The Popes.-Musical history:Previously Dan Heatley played drums for The Satellites, The Exploited, The Boothill Foot-Tappers, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Blubbery Hellbellies, Lucky Saddles, Auntie & The Men From Uncle,...
  
  
• Satyr
• The Scabs
• Scandal
• The Scars
  Scars (band)
  Scars were a Post-punk band that hailed from Edinburgh, Scotland, and were a part of that city's bustling music scene of the late 70s - early 80s.-History:...
  
  
• Sceptics
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Schizoid
• School Meals
• School Ties
• Schoolgirl Bitch
• Schwartzeneggar
  Schwartzeneggar
  Schwartzeneggar was a band formed by ex-Crass vocalist Steve Ignorant, Thatcher On Acid members, Ben Corrigan , Andi Tuck , Bob Butler , and former Conflict member Mark Pickstone ....
  
  
• Scissor Fits
• Sconeheads
• Scratch
• Screaming Babies
• Screaming Dead
  Screaming Dead
  Screaming Dead were a positive punk band from Cheltenham formed in 1980, who have often been characterized as "horror punk". They released several singles and EPs with indie chart success, before splitting up in 1985...
  
  
• Screen Gemz
• Scrotum Poles
• Scruff
• Scum
• The Secret
• The Sect
• Section 5
  Section 5
  Section 5 are a hooligan firm football hooligan firm associated with West Bromwich Albion F.C. Whilst Albion have had several other firms since the 1960s, Section 5 is the largest.-Background:Section Five are mainly located in the Smethwick End stand...
  
  
• Section 88
• Section A
• Sector 27
  Sector 27
  Sector 27 is a defunct British new wave band founded by Tom Robinson. Robinson left the band, and it continued without him for a number of years. Sector 27's first album was produced by Steve Lillywhite. Sector 27 toured with Elton John and The Police....
  
  
• Security Risk
• Sedition
• Seduction
• The Seize
• Self Abuse
• Self Control
• Self Destruct
• The Sell Outs
• Sellout
• Semtex
• Sensational Spares
• Senseless Things
  Senseless Things
  Senseless Things were a British indie punk band, who were active on the UK festival circuit in the late 1980s and early 1990s.-Career:Senseless Things formed around the musical partnership of songwriter Mark Keds and Morgan Nicholls , who as eleven year old schoolboys in Twickenham, Middlesex put...
  
  
• Septic Psychos
• Serf Combat
• Serious Damage
• Serious Drinking
  Serious Drinking
  Serious Drinking were a humorous punk rock band from Norwich, England whose lyrical themes often covered football and drinking.-History:The band formed in February 1981, taking their name from a Sounds headline to an interview with The Cockney Rejects, with most members having met at the University...
  
  
• Serotonin
• The Setz
• Seven Years
  Seven Years (band)
  Seven Years are a British punk band that formed in 2001 and broke up in 2006. Based in Northampton, East Midlands, most of their shows were played to local audiences. The line-up at their breakup was El X, Joe Willes and Jonas House...
  
  
• Seventeen
• Sex Aids
• Sex Beatles
• The Sex Bristols
• Sex Gang Children
  Sex Gang Children
  The Sex Gang Children are a positive punk group that formed in the early 1980s in England. Although the original group only released one official studio album, they remain one of the more well-known bands out of the early Batcave scene and have reformed for new albums and touring various times...
  
  
• Sex Pistols
  Sex Pistols
  The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
  
  
• Shag Nasty
• Shake
• Shake Appeal
• Sham 69
  Sham 69
  Sham 69 is an English punk band that formed in Hersham in 1976.Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi! and streetpunk genres. The band allegedly derived...
  
  
• Shameless Hussies
• The Shapes
  The Shapes (UK band)
  The Shapes were an English punk rock group that formed in the town of Leamington Spa in 1976. Different in many ways from their peers in the nascent punk subculture, they were known for eschewing the more political stances that were fashionable at the time, instead producing works of a cartoonish...
  
  
• The Shattered Dolls
• The Shattered Dreams
• Pete Shelley
  Pete Shelley
  Pete Shelley is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the leader of Buzzcocks.-Biography:...
  
  
• Shock
• The Shock (Newcastle-under-Lyme)
• Shock Treatment
• The Shortcuts
• The Shove
• The Showbiz Kids
  Toy Dolls
  The Toy Dolls are an English punk rock band formed in 1979. Departing from the angry lyrics and music often associated with punk rock, The Toy Dolls worked within the aesthetics of punk to express a sense of fun, with songs such as "Yul Brynner Was a Skinhead", "My Girlfriend's Dad's a Vicar" and...
  
  
• Shrapnel
• SIC
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• The Sick Things
• Chris Sievey
• Silent Guests
• Silent Noise
• Silver Screen Girls
• The Singles
• Sinking Ships
• The Sinyx
• Siouxsie & The Banshees
  Siouxsie & the Banshees
  Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock band formed in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin. Initially associated with the English punk rock scene, the band rapidly evolved to create "a form of post-punk discord full of daring rhythmic and sonic experimentation"...
  
  
• Sister Sister
• Sits. Vacant
• Six-Tele
• Six Minute War
• Skat
  Helen McCookerybook
  Helen McCookerybook was the bass guitar player and lead singer with Brighton-based punk rock band The Chefs during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She later formed Helen and The Horns , before continuing her career as a solo artist, writer and lecturer...
  
  
• The Skeptix
• Ski Patrol
  The Folk Devils
  The Folk Devils were a 1980s post-punk ensemble born of the Notting Hill, West London music scene.Founding member Ian Lowery had previously been the original singer in late 1970s punk rock band The Wall and then signed to Killing Joke's Malicious Damage label as leader of the group Ski Patrol...
  
  
• Skid
• Skid Marks
• Skidmarx
• The Skids
  The Skids
  Skids were an art-punk/punk rock and new wave band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, founded in 1977 by Stuart Adamson , William Simpson , Thomas Kellichan and Richard Jobson...
  
  
• Skin Deep
• Skin Squad
• The Skodas
  Avon Calling
  Avon Calling is an album of tracks featuring bands from Bristol, UK, on local record label Heartbeat Records, and was originally released in 1979...
  
  
• Skrewdriver
  Skrewdriver
  Skrewdriver was an English punk rock band formed by Ian Stuart Donaldson in Poulton-le-Fylde in 1976. They later evolved into one of the first neo-Nazi rock bands, playing a leading role in the Rock Against Communism movement and becoming known as the most prominent white power skinhead...
  
  
• Skroteez
• The Skunks
• Slaughter & The Dogs
  Slaughter & The Dogs
  Slaughter & The Dogs is an English punk rock band that formed in the late 1970s in Manchester, England. They were one of the first UK punk bands to sign for a major label, Decca Records.-Career:...
  
  
• Slaughter Tradition
• Slaughtered Corpses
• The Sleepers
• The Slide
• Slight Seconds
• Slime
• The Slits
  The Slits
  The Slits were a British punk rock band. The quartet was formed in 1976 by members of the bands The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators. The members were Ari Up , who died of cancer in October 2010, and Palmolive , with Viv Albertine and Tessa Pollitt replacing founding members, Kate Korus and...
  
  
• Slow Motion
• The SlowGuns
  The Slowguns
  The Slowguns were a Stockport, England punk rock band whose brief career spanned two singles between 1978 and 1980. Although a part of the burgeoning local punk scene, the mod influence was obvious in both their sound and look...
  
  
• Slowjam
• Slush
• Small Thoughts
• The Smirks
  The Smirks
  The Smirks were an English new wave band from Manchester who played from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Although they failed to meet with commercial success, they built a small but loyal base of fans....
  
  
• The Smith
• Snarling Horses
• Snatch
• Sneeky Feelin's
• Sneex
• The Snipers
• The Snivelling Shits
  The Snivelling Shits
  The Snivelling Shits were a punk rock group formed in London in 1977, and centred on Giovanni Dadomo-History:Giovanni Dadomo was a music journalist who wrote for publications such as ZigZag, Sounds, and The Face....
  
  
• Snuff
  Snuff
  Snuff is a product made from ground or pulverised tobacco leaves. It is an example of smokeless tobacco. It originated in the Americas and was in common use in Europe by the 17th century...
  
  
• Snyde
• Social Disease
• Social Security
• Society (South Wales)
  Society (band)
  Society were a punk rock band formed in 1980 by Cyfarthfa High School students Ian Gravell and Steve Hammett in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The lineup included vocalist Marcus Howells who later formed Foreign Legion ....
  
  
• Society (West London)
• Society's Rejects
• The Sockets
• The Sods
• Sofa Head
• Soldier Dolls
• Solid Action
• Solid Waste
• Solos
• Solutions
• Solvent Abuse
• Some Chicken
• Sons Of Cain
• Sons Of The Pope
• S.O.R.B
• Sore Throat
  Sore Throat
  Sore Throat were a British crust punk / grindcore band, formed in Yorkshire in 1987. They are known for being one of the earliest exponents of the grindcore subgenre known as "noisecore", as well launching the careers of several prominent members of the British metal community.-Biography:Sore...
  
  
• The Sore Willies
• Sounds of Swami
  Sounds of Swami
  Sounds of Swami are a progressive / post-hardcore influenced punk rock band currently active in the UK underground punk scene. They formed in late 2005 in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. The band is well known for their eclectic mix of punk, DC post-hardcore, and progressive rock as well as...
  
  
• Southern Death Cult
  Southern Death Cult
  Southern Death Cult was an English positive punk band in the early 1980s. It is now primarily known for having given its lead singer and parts of its name to the multi-platinum hard rock supergroup The Cult...
  
  
• Spare Mentals
• Spare Units
• Spasms
• Special Duties
  Special Duties
  -History:Special Duties was created in October 1977 by schoolfellows Steve Green , Steve Norris and Nigel Baker. They were punks at school, but the idea of forming their own band came when they saw The Adverts in Colchester. The fact that the three schoolboys couldn't play and didn't own any...
  
  
• The Spectres
  Glen Matlock
  Glen Matlock is an English bass guitarist most famous for being in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs and most of the lyrics, while lead singer Johnny Rotten made some adjustments...
  
  
• Speed
• The Speedometors
  The Speedometors
  The Speedometors or Speed-O-Metors are a London, New Wave and punk band. They were formed in 1976 in Shepherd's Bush by Martin Finlay, Robbie Watson and Lol Gellor and joined shortly thereafter by Ian "Toose" Taylor, late of the Mike Batt-produced group Houdini.The Speedometors attracted the...
  
  
• Spelling Missteaks
• SPG Murders
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Spherical Objects
• The Spics
• Spider
• Spider King
• Spirit Level
• Spit Like Paint
• The Spitfire Boys
  The Spitfire Boys
  The Spitfire Boys were the first Liverpool punk band to release a single . The Spitfire Boys were mainly notable for including in their line-up Peter Clarke, who went on to drum for The Slits and later Siouxsie and the Banshees as Budgie, and Paul Rutherford, later better known for being a member...
  
  
• Spittin' Blood
• Spizz Oil
• Spizzenergi
• Spizzenergi 2
• The Spizzles
• Splash
• Max Splodge
  Splodgenessabounds
  Splodgenessabounds are an English punk rock band formed in Keston, Bromley, South London. The band is associated with the Oi! and Punk Pathetique genres. Their frontman is Max Splodge.-Career:...
  
  
• Splodgenessabounds
  Splodgenessabounds
  Splodgenessabounds are an English punk rock band formed in Keston, Bromley, South London. The band is associated with the Oi! and Punk Pathetique genres. Their frontman is Max Splodge.-Career:...
  
  
• Spontaneous Human Combustion
• The Spotty Dogs
• SPQR
• The Squad
  Gus Chambers
  Gary Chambers , known as Gus Chambers, was a musician from Coventry, England. He was most known as lead vocalist of Grip Inc.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Squares
• Squeeler
• St. Vitus Dance
• St. Vitus Dancers
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Staa Marx
• Stag Marks Band
• Stage B
• The Stains
• Stalag 17
• Stalag 44
• Stand
• The Stand (Salisbury)
• The Standards (Brandon)
• The Standards (Northern Ireland)
• The Starjets
  The Starjets
  The Starjets were a late 1970s power pop/punk rock group from Belfast, Northern Ireland.The band consisted of guitarist/vocalist Terry Sharpe, guitarist/vocalist Paul Bowen, bassist Sean Martin and drummer Liam L'Estrange. The group sported a mix of punk and mainstream pop influences...
  
  
• The Starlings
• Starship
• Starvation Army
• State Of Emergency
• State of Shock
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• State Run
• State Secrets
• Station Superheaven
• The Statistics
• The Steal
  The Steal
  The Steal were an English hardcore punk band, from Kingston upon Thames and Brighton.-History:They formed in late 2005, and are influenced by Minor Threat, 7 Seconds and Kid Dynamite. In 2006 they completed a UK tour with American punk bands Set Your Goals and Lifetime...
  
  
• The Stench
• The Steppes
  The Members
  The Members are a British punk band that originated in Camberley, England. Their best known recording is "The Sound of the Suburbs" .-Career:...
  
  
• Stepping Talk
• Stereo Models
  Stereo Models
  Stereo Models were an English new wave group, formed in 1979 in Bristol. They are best known for the track "Move Fast-Stay Ahead", on the Bristol compilation album, Avon Calling, released by Heartbeat Records in 1979...
  
  
• The Stereotypes (London)
• The Stereotypes (Oxford)
• The Sterile Androids
• Sterile Vision
• The Steroid Kiddies
• Steve Miro & The Eyes
• The Stickers
• 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...
  
  
• The Stiffs
• Stigma
• The Stilettos
• The Stillborns
• The Stingrays (Bristol)
  The Stingrays
  The Stingrays are a New Wave/Rockabilly band, which originally formed in 1977 in Bristol, England, and is still gigging today. ....
  
  
• The Stingrays (Northern England)
• The Stoat
• Stolen Corpse
• Stolen Power
• The Stopouts
• Stormtrooper
• The Stowaways
• Straightjacket
• The Straights
• The Straits
  The Straits
  The Straits is an upcoming Australian television drama series for ABC1 currently being filmed in Cairns and other Far North Queensland locations....
  
  
• Stranded
• Strange Fruit
• Strange Ways (Hull)
• Strangeways (Wakefield)
• The Stranglers
  The Stranglers
  The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...
  
  
• The Straps
  The Straps
  The Straps are an English streetpunk band, formed in 1978 in Battersea, South London. Jim Walker was a drummer for the band in the early 1980s. Other members included Andi Sexgang, and Simon and Jonathan Werner from The Pack, who later became Theatre of Hate....
  
  
• Strate Jacket
• Stratford Mercenaries
  Stratford Mercenaries
  Stratford Mercenaries were an English punk rock band that was formed in late 1995 by Gary "Gazzer" Buckley from the punk band Dirt and Ed "Eddafed" Addley from the punk band Suicidal Supermarket Trolleys...
  
  
• Andy Stratton
• Straw Dogs
• Street People
• Street Spirits
• Stress
• Strictly Prohibited
• Strike
• Strike Back
• The Stripes
• Stripey Zebras
  Stripey Zebras
  Stripey Zebras were a post punk band from Southend on Sea in Essex, UK. The group formed in 1980 with a line-up consisting of*Martin Fulton - Vocals*Graham Burnett - Drums*Martin Hardy - Guitar*Stephen Dobson - Bass/Vocals*...
  
  
• The Struts
• Studio Sweethearts
• The Studioz
• The Stukas
• The Stunt Kites
• Stuntface
• Stupid Brick
• Poly Styrene
  Poly Styrene
  Poly Styrene was the stage name of Marianne Joan Elliott-Said , a British musician, songwriter and singer, most notably in the pioneering punk rock band X-Ray Spex.-Early life:...
  
  
• Subculture
• Subhumans
  Subhumans (U.K. band)
  The Subhumans are an English anarcho-punk band formed in the Warminster and Melksham area of Wiltshire in 1980. Dick Lucas joined later in the year, having formerly been in another local band, The Mental. Other members had been in The Stupid Humans...
  
  
• Subject Matter
• The Subjects
  Sad Day We Left the Croft
  Sad Day We Left The Croft is a compilation album of punk bands from the Scottish Hebridean island of Lewis, recorded in 1980 and released in 1981, as a 12 inch vinyl LP on an independent record label, Adult Entertainments, based in Stornoway; and also in a cassette version by Croft Recordings. A...
  
  
• The Submerged Tenth
  Bauhaus (band)
  Bauhaus was an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy , Daniel Ash , Kevin Haskins and David J . The band was originally Bauhaus 1919 before they dropped the numerical portion within a year of formation...
  
  
• The Subs
• Suburban Studs
  Suburban Studs
  The Suburban Studs were a punk rock band formed in Birmingham in 1976.-Line-up:*Vocals, guitar - Eddy Zipps*Guitar - Keith Owen*Bass - Paul Morton*Drums - Steve Poole*Saxophone - Steve Heart -Releases:...
  
  
• Subway Sect
  Subway Sect
  Subway Sect were one of the original British punk bands. Their influence was limited by the very small amount of recorded material they released.-The early days:...
  
  
• Nikki Sudden
  Nikki Sudden
  Nikki Sudden was a prolific English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He co-founded the post-punk band Swell Maps with his brother Epic Soundtracks while attending Solihull School in Solihull.-Career:...
  
  
• Sudden Impact
• Suicidal Mushrooms
• Suicide Visionary
• The Suicides
• Sulphur
• The Sunset Boys
  Captain Sensible
  Captain Sensible is a singer, songwriter, guitarist who grew up in Croydon, England, and co-founded the punk rock band The Damned in 1976. After leaving the band, he reinvented himself as an alternative pop singer with a rebellious, self-conscious image...
  
  
• Supermatix
• The Surge
• The Surgeons
• Surgical Support
• The Surprises
• Suspicions Confirmed
• The Suss
• The Sussed
• Sussex
• Swank
• The Sweat
  Clive Culbertson
  Clive Culbertson Clive Culbertson Clive Culbertson (born 28 August 1954, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland is the founder of The Order Of Druids In Ulster. He is a mystic, musician and healer. Culbertson trained with his friend and teacher, the late Ben McBrady, Aircinneac and Herenach of...
  
  
• Swell Maps
  Swell Maps
  Swell Maps were an experimental English rock group of the 1970s from Birmingham that foreshadowed the birth of post-punk.Influenced by the disparate likes of T.Rex and the German progressive outfit, Can, they created a new soundscape that would be heavily mined by others in the post-punk era...
  
  
• Swift
• The Swingers
  Glen Matlock
  Glen Matlock is an English bass guitarist most famous for being in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs and most of the lyrics, while lead singer Johnny Rotten made some adjustments...
  
  
• Rikki Sylvan
  Rikki and the Last Days of Earth
  Rikki and the Last Days of Earth were a British musical group and one of the early punk groups. They are chronicled in Henrik Poulsen's book 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave...
  
  
• Symbol of Freedom
• Syphletix
• The System
• Systum

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• The Table
  The Table (punk band)
  The Table were a punk rock band from Cardiff, Wales, best known for their 1977 single "Do The Standing Still ".They consisted of Russell Young , Tony Barnes , Len Lewis and Mickey O'Connor...
  
  
• Tagmemics
  The art attacks
  The Art Attacks were a British punk band from April 1977 to March 1978.Their songs released as singles were "I am a Dalek"/"Neutron Bomb" and "Punk Rock Stars"/"Rat City". The group was formed by Edwin Pouncey and Steve Spear, two students from the Royal College of Art, London for a one-off gig at...
  
  
• The Take
• Take It
• Tango Brigade
  The Starjets
  The Starjets were a late 1970s power pop/punk rock group from Belfast, Northern Ireland.The band consisted of guitarist/vocalist Terry Sharpe, guitarist/vocalist Paul Bowen, bassist Sean Martin and drummer Liam L'Estrange. The group sported a mix of punk and mainstream pop influences...
  
  
• Tanya Hyde & The Tormentors
• Tanz Der Youth
• Tarot XIII
• The Tarts
• Task Force
• Tatty Ollity
  Roger Ruskin Spear
  Roger Ruskin Spear is a multi-instrumentalist who was a founding member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, staying with it until its end.-Career:...
  
  
• The Tax Exiles
• The Tea Set
• The Teardrops
  The Teardrops (band)
  The Teardrops were a Punk/New Wave band formed in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England, in 1978. The founders and always the core of this band were Trevor Wain, John Key and Jimmy Donnelly with various good friends from the Prestwich music scene:- Buzzcocks bassist Steve Garvey, members of The...
  
  
• The Tearjerkers
  The tearjerkers
  The Tearjerkers a five piece power pop band from Northern Ireland. Formed at the height of the punk rock boom in Ulster in the late 1970s, the band were composed of members from other Northern Irish groups namely Cobra, Midnight Cruiser and The Detonators....
  
  
• Teddy & The Terriffics
• The Tee Vees
  Good Vibrations (record label)
  Good Vibrations is a Belfast record label and store. Founded by Terri Hooley in the early 1970’s, Good Vibrations started out in a small derelict building on Great Victoria Street, Belfast...
  
  
• The Teeming Morons
• Teenage & The Wildlife
• Teenage Filmstars
  Teenage Filmstars
  Teenage Filmstars are an English, post punk, independent, psychedelic 1980s-90s band, formed in 1979 by Edward Ball, Daniel Treacy and Joseph Foster...
  
  
• The Teenage Zits
• The Teeth
• The Telegents
• Telescope
• Television Personalities
  Television Personalities (band)
  The Television Personalities are an English group with a varying line-up. The only constant member is singer–songwriter Dan Treacy , who uses the band as a vehicle for his music...
  
  
• Steve Tempo
  Deaf School
  Deaf School are an English rock band, formed in the mid 1970s and hailing from Liverpool. Their style is somewhere in between pub rock, punk, glam rock and art rock. They originally disbanded after their third album but their influence lived on...
  
  
• Temporary Title
• Tennis Shoes
• Tenpole Tudor
  Tenpole Tudor
  Tenpole Tudor are an English punk band fronted by Edward Tudor-Pole. The band has been active intermittently since 1977.-Origins:Tenpole Tudor formed in 1977 when Tudor-Pole met guitarist Bob Kingston , bassist Dick Crippen, and drummer Gary Long...
  
  
• Terminal Spectators
• The Terraplanes
• Terry & The Terrors
• Terry Tranz N' The Vestites
• Test to Destruction
• Thatcher on Acid
  Thatcher On Acid
  Thatcher On Acid are an anarcho-punk band from the United Kingdom. They formed in Somerset during 1983. Their name is a satirical reference to former U.K. prime minister, Margaret Thatcher...
  
  
• Theatre of Hate
  Theatre of Hate
  Theatre of Hate were a post-punk band formed in Britain in 1980.Led by singer-songwriter and ex-member of punk band The Pack, Kirk Brandon, the original group also consisted of: guitarist Steve Guthrie, bassist Stan Stammers , saxophonist John Lennard and drummer Luke Rendle from Crisis/The...
  
  
• Thermometers
• They Must Be Russians (Windsor)
• Thick Dick And The Green'eds
• Thieves Like Us
• Thin Yoghurts
• The Things
• This Bitter Lesson
• This System Kills
• Those Helicopters
• Those Intrinsic Intellectuals
• Those Obnoxious Types
• The Thought Police
• Threats
• The Three Johns
  The Three Johns
  The Three Johns were a Post Punk/Indie Rock band formed in 1981 in Leeds originally consisting of The Mekons co-founder, Jon Langford as well as John Hyatt and Phillip "John" Brennan , augmented by a drum machine.-History:...
  
  
• Three Party Split
• Throats
  Throats
  Throats were a band that formed in Spalding, England, in 2007. Starting out, their music was very raw, fast and straightforward Hardcore. Over the years their musical ideas developed and they began to incorporate elements of doom, crust, d-beat and sludge metal which resulted in a very dissonant...
  
  
• The Thrust
• Thursdays
• The Tickets
• Tie The Boy
• Tiger Ashby
• Tiger Tails
• The Tights
  The Tights
  The Tights are an English punk rock band from Worcester. The band's only two singles were released by the Cherry Red Records label: "Bad Hearts" / "It" / "Cracked" and "Howard Hughes" / "China's Eternal" . After John Peel played "Bad Hearts" on BBC Radio 1, this single made it to number six in the...
  
  
• The Tiller Boys
  Pete Shelley
  Pete Shelley is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the leader of Buzzcocks.-Biography:...
  
  
• Time To Pray
• Time To Think
• The Tinopeners
• Tins
• The Toads
• The Toilets
  Mike Peters (musician)
  Mike Peters is a Welsh musician, best known as the lead singer of The Alarm. He currently lives in Dyserth, North Wales with his family. After The Alarm split up in 1991, Peters wrote and released solo work, which he has been releasing under the name "The Alarm" since 2000...
  
  
• Tom Robinson Band
  Tom Robinson Band
  Tom Robinson Band were a British rock band, established in 1976 by singer, songwriter and bassist Tom Robinson...
  
  
• Tone Deaf And The Idiots
• Toned F
• Tonight
• Too Much
• Toolbox Murderers
• The Tools
• The Tours
• Torcha Shed
• Total Chaos
• Total Confusion
• The Totally Outta Hand Band
• Towers Of London
  Towers of London
  Towers of London are a Punk Rock n Roll band, fromLondon, England, who formed in 2004. Their music mixes elements of rock and heavy metal music with 1977 style British punk...
  
  
• Toxic
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Toxik Ephex
• Toxic Waste (Belfast)
  Toxic Waste (band)
  Toxic Waste were an Anarcho punk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland.-Career:The band formed in 1982 after inspiration from the Crass gig at the Anarchy Centre in Belfast. Featuring Phil on bass, Patsy on vocals, Grub on drums and Marty on guitar they wanted to take the DIY and anti-establishment...
  
  
• Toxic Waste (Consett)
• Toy Dolls
  Toy Dolls
  The Toy Dolls are an English punk rock band formed in 1979. Departing from the angry lyrics and music often associated with punk rock, The Toy Dolls worked within the aesthetics of punk to express a sense of fun, with songs such as "Yul Brynner Was a Skinhead", "My Girlfriend's Dad's a Vicar" and...
  
  
• The Toys (Bath)
• Toyah
  Toyah (band)
  Toyah is the name of the band fronted by Toyah Willcox between 1977 and 1983. The only other consistent band member throughout this period was Joel Bogen, Willcox's principal co-writer and guitarist.-Background :...
  
  
• The Toytown Gamblers
• T.P.I.
• The Tracksuits
• Tragic Minds
  Nazi punk
  A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture. The term also describes the related type of music. Nazi punk music sounds similar to most forms of punk rock, but it differs by having lyrics that express hatred of Jews, homosexuals, communists, anarchists, anti-racists and people who...
  
  
• The Trainspotters
  Mike Read
  Michael David Kenneth Read is an English radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and television presenter.-Early life:...
  
  
• Transformer
• The Transistors
• The Transmitters
  The Transmitters (band)
  The Transmitters were a British alternative rock band active during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Mixing elements of punk, jazz and psychedelia, the band were critical favourites throughout their lifetime and played support slots for a wide variety of underground and mainstream bands,...
  
  
• Trash (Stafford)
• Trash (Weybridge)
  Brian Devoil
  Brian Ronald Devoil is a British musician and a founding member of the band Twelfth Night.-References:...
  
  
• Travis Cut
• Trax
• TRC
• Steve Treatment
• The Tremors
• The Trial
• Tronics
• The Troops
• Troops of Tomorrow
  Knox (musician)
  Knox also known as I.M. Carnarchan is a British musician and founding member of the seminal punk band The Vibrators.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Troubleshooters
• Truth Decay
• Trwynau Coch
• The Tubbies
• Tubeway Army
  Tubeway Army
  Tubeway Army were a London-based punk rock and new wave band led by lead singer Gary Numan. They were the first band of the post-punk era to have a synthesizer-based hit, with their single Are 'Friends' Electric? and its parent album Replicas both topping the UK Album Chart in mid-1979.-Line-up:The...
  
  
• Tubeway Patrol
  Tubeway Army
  Tubeway Army were a London-based punk rock and new wave band led by lead singer Gary Numan. They were the first band of the post-punk era to have a synthesizer-based hit, with their single Are 'Friends' Electric? and its parent album Replicas both topping the UK Album Chart in mid-1979.-Line-up:The...
  
  
• The Tunnelrunners
• Turkey Molesters
• TV21
  TV Century 21
  TV Century 21, also known as TV 21, was a weekly British children's comic of the 1960s and early 1970s. It promoted the many television science-fiction puppet series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Century 21 Productions...
  
  
• T. V. Eye
• T.V. Smith's Explorers
  T. V. Smith
  T. V. Smith is a British punk rock singer-songwriter, who was part of the band The Adverts in the late 1970s...
  
  
• Twilight Zoners
• Twisted Nerve
• Twisted Nervez
• Twisting Ferraris
• Two Fingered Approach
• The Type

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• U Thant
• The Urban Zones
• UK Decay
  UK Decay
  UK Decay are Luton-based post punk band, formed out of the ashes of another local band called The Resistors, who were Steven Abbot guitar, Steve Harle on drums, Paul Wilson vocals, and Martin Smith bass....
  
  
• UK Subs
  UK Subs
  The U.K. Subs are an English punk rock band, among the earliest in the first wave of British punk. Formed in 1976, the mainstay of the band has been vocalist Charlie Harper, originally a singer in Britain's R&B scene. They were also one of the first street punk bands.-Career:The U.K...
  
  
• The Ulcers
• Ulterior Motives
• Ultra-Violent
• Uncle Po
• Undead
• The Undecided
• The Underdogs
• The Undertakers
• The Undertones
  The Undertones
  The Undertones are a punk rock/new wave band formed in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1975.The original line-up of the Undertones released thirteen singles and four studio albums — The Undertones , Hypnotised , Positive Touch and The Sin of Pride — before disbanding in July 1983.Music guide Allmusic...
  
  
• The Uninvited
• Unit Q
• The Unknown Creed
• Unorfadox
• The Untamed
• Untamed Youth
• The Unwanted
  Olli Wisdom
  Olli Wisdom is a British musician, currently residing in London.Wisdom is most famous for his role as the singer in the glam/gothic rock group Specimen, but since the 1990s he has recorded as a psychedelic trance artist under the name Space Tribe....
  
  
• Uproar
• Urban Decay
• Urban Dogs
  Knox (musician)
  Knox also known as I.M. Carnarchan is a British musician and founding member of the seminal punk band The Vibrators.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Urban Guerillas
• The Urge
• Urgent Crunch Band
• The Users
  The Users (band)
  The Users were a punk rock band formed in Cambridge, UK, that was active between 1977 and 1979.-History:Despite only releasing two singles on their own label and being active for less than three years, the band developed a small cult following...
  
  
• UXB (Cannock)
  UXB (band)
  UXB is a punk band based in the West Midlands, England. The band comprises Dom Roche , Mark Read , Colin Bennett and Mick Turner . Between 1978 and 1981 the band toured extensively around the Midlands and released one single, "Crazy Today" in 1980 which was played several times on BBC Radio 1...
  
  
• UXB (Northern Ireland)
• UXB (Willington)

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• V2
• Va-t-en
• The Vacants
• The Vaj
• Valium X
• The Valves
  The Valves
  The Valves were one of the early punk groups from Edinburgh, Scotland. The band, chronicled in Henrik Poulsen's book 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave, featured Dave Robertson as Dee Robot on vocals, G. Dair / Teddy Dair aka Gordon Dair on drums, Gordon Scott or Pada on bass guitar and Ronnie...
  
  
• The Vamp
• The Vamps
• The Vandals
  Alison Moyet
  Alison Moyet , is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy voice.Her UK album sales have reached a certified 2.3 million, with 800,000 singles sold, all in the UK, where all seven of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the Top 40 UK Album Chart,...
  
  
• Vanilla Rocket Flesh
• The Vapors
  The Vapors
  The Vapors were a New Wave and power pop band from England, that existed between 1979 and 1981. They had a hit with the song "Turning Japanese" in 1980, which reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart, and #36 in the U.S...
  
  
• The Varicose Veins (Bedfordshire)
• The Varicose Veins (Rochdale)
• The Varukers
  The Varukers
  The Varukers are a UK D-beat band formed in 1979 by vocalist Anthony "Rat" Martin, which produced its most influential recordings in the early 1980s. The band are one of the first to play in the musical style of the hardcore punk band Discharge, known as D-beat...
  
  
• The Vaynes
• The V.D.U.'s
• VDX
• The Vedettes
• The Veins
• The Vendettas
• The Venom
• The Ventz
  Nazi punk
  A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture. The term also describes the related type of music. Nazi punk music sounds similar to most forms of punk rock, but it differs by having lyrics that express hatred of Jews, homosexuals, communists, anarchists, anti-racists and people who...
  
  
• Venus In Furs
• The Verdict
• Vermilion
• Versatile Newts
• Vertical Hold
• Vertical Smiles
• The Vets
• Vex
• Rod Vey
• The Vibrators
  The Vibrators
  - Early career:The Vibrators were founded by Ian 'Knox' Carnochan, bassist Pat Collier, guitarist John Ellis, and drummer John 'Eddie' Edwards. They first came to public notice at the 100 Club when they backed Chris Spedding in 1976. On Spedding's recommendation, Mickie Most signed them to his...
  
  
• The Vicars
  Alison Moyet
  Alison Moyet , is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy voice.Her UK album sales have reached a certified 2.3 million, with 800,000 singles sold, all in the UK, where all seven of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the Top 40 UK Album Chart,...
  
  
• The Vice Creems
  Kris Needs
  Kris Needs is a British journalist and author, primarily known for his writings on the music scene from the 1970s onwards. He became editor of ZigZag Magazine in August 1977, at the relatively young age of 23, and has written biographies of numerous rock and dance stars including Primal Scream,...
  
  
• Vice Squad
  Vice Squad
  Vice Squad is a punk band formed in 1978 in Bristol, England. The band formed from two other local punk bands, The Contingent and TV Brakes. Songwriter and vocalist Beki Bondage was a founding member and is currently with the band, although there was a period of time when the band had a different...
  
  
• Sid Vicious
  Sid Vicious
  Sid Vicious was an English musician best known as the bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols...
  
  
• Vicious Rumours
• Vicious White Kids
  Vicious White Kids
  The Vicious White Kids were a punk rock band from London that formed for one concert on August 15, 1978, at the Electric Ballroom in London. Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious was the lead singer...
  
  
• Victim
• Victimize
  Bryn Merrick
  Bryn Merrick is a musician who was a member of Cardiff-based punk band Victimize and who later joined The Damned between 1983 and 1989. He recorded the bass for albums Phantasmagoria and Anything. He replaced Paul Gray in 1983, when Paul went to UFO...
  
  
• The Victims (Stafford)
• Victor Drago
• Victor Mature
• The Vile Bodies
• Violation
• The Violators
• Violent Uprising
• The V.I.P.s
• Virus
• Visitors (Edinburgh)
• The Visitors (Dundee)
• Vital Disorders
• Voice of the Puppets
• The Void (Hull)
• The Void (Kent)
• The Voids (Consett)
• Volt Affection
• The Von Trap Family
• Voorhees
  Voorhees (band)
  Voorhees is a hardcore punk band formed in Durham, England. From early 1990 until late 2001 they released numerous records on various international record labels and toured Europe and the USA frequently...
  
  
• The Vox Phantoms
• The Vultures

W

• The Wailing Cocks
  Andy Leek
  Andy Leek is an English musician, noted for his work with Dexys Midnight Runners.-Biography:Andy began his musical career while still at school fronting progressive punk band The Wailing Cocks...
  
  
• Walkie Talkies
  Wayne Hussey
  Wayne Hussey is a British musician, best known as lead singer of The Mission and guitarist with The Sisters of Mercy....
  
  
• The Walking Floors
• The Wall
  The Wall (band)
  The Wall were a punk rock band formed in Wallsend, Sunderland, England, in early 1978. They released two albums while together.-History:Formed in early 1978, the initial line-up was Ian Lowery , Andzy Griffiths , John Hammond , and Bruce Archibald , and this line-up recorded the band's debut...
  
  
• The Waltons
  The Waltons (UK band)
  The Waltons were an anarchic band from the Isle of Wight in the UK. The socio-political post-punk/rock 5-piece fronted by Tony Gregson , had one minor hit with "Brown Rice" in the mid 1980s, and starred in an early Colin Nutley movie shot on the island called , about an Island boy falling in love...
  
  
• The Wanderers
  The Lords of the New Church
  The Lords of the New Church were an English/American post-punk supergroup with a line-up consisting of four musicians from prominent 1970s punk bands...
  
  
• The Wanglers
• War Ploys
• Ward 34
• Wardance (Belfast)
• Wardance (Newtownabbey)
• The Wardens
• The Warm
• Warm Jets
• The Warriors
• Warsaw
  Warsaw (Joy Division album)
  Warsaw was the planned debut album by the English post-punk band later known as Joy Division. Recorded in May 1978 it consisted of eleven tracks, however the band was disappointed by the post-production done by RCA producers and the album was scrapped...
  
  
• Warsaw Pakt
  Warsaw Pakt
  Warsaw Pakt was a short-lived punk group which were active in the years of 1977-78, though some of its members had heritages linking them to the 1960s underground...
  
  
• The Wasps
• The Waste
• Wasted
• Wasted Youth
  Wasted Youth (British Band)
  Wasted Youth was a punk / post-punk band from London, England, active between 1979 and 1982, which blended early Goth and post-punk with dark acoustic strains of the sort associated with Nick Drake and Syd Barrett. The line-up of the band was Ken Scott , Rocco Barker , Nick Nicole , Darren Murphy ...
  
  
• Wasteland
• Wat Tyler
  Wat Tyler (band)
  Wat Tyler was an English novelty/punk band of the late 1980s and 1990s, fronted by Sean Forbes alongside Andy Tuck of Thatcher on Acid. The band were known for their eclectic style, insightful political commentary, surreal humour, and inside jokes, and produced a number of EPs and albums on...
  
  
• The Water Pistols
  The Water Pistols
  The Water Pistols were a rock band whose one novelty record released in 1976 spoofs the then-current punk rock movement. It has sometimes been claimed that the singer was actually British comedian Charlie Drake, but this appears to be due to confusion with his record Super Punk .Both songs on the...
  
  
• Wayward Skylabs
• Weekend
  The Smirks
  The Smirks were an English new wave band from Manchester who played from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Although they failed to meet with commercial success, they built a small but loyal base of fans....
  
  
• Western Hysteria
• Wet Blanket
• The What
• What Of The Night
• What To Wear
• The Whips
• The Whiskey Priests
• White Boss
  Nazi punk
  A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture. The term also describes the related type of music. Nazi punk music sounds similar to most forms of punk rock, but it differs by having lyrics that express hatred of Jews, homosexuals, communists, anarchists, anti-racists and people who...
  
  
• The White Cats
  Rat Scabies
  Christopher Millar , better known by his stage name Rat Scabies, is a musician best known for his tenure as the drummer for The Damned....
  
  
• White Noise
• White SS
• Whizz Kids
• Why Control?
• The Wild Boys
• The Wimps
• Wipeout
• Wire
  Wire (band)
  Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed...
  
  
• Witching Hour
• The Worst
• Wreckless Eric
  Wreckless Eric
  Wreckless Eric is an English rock and roll/new wave singer-songwriter, best known for his 1977 single " Whole Wide World" on Stiff Records. More than two decades after its release, the song was included in Mojo magazine’s list of the best punk rock singles of all time...
  
  
• The Wretched
• Wrist Action

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• X-Cells
• The X-Certs
• X-Cretas
• X-Defectors
• X-E-Cutors
• X-Films
• X-Pupils
• X-Ray Spex
  X-Ray Spex
  X-Ray Spex were an English punk band from London that formed in 1976.During their first incarnation , X-Ray Spex were “deliberate underachievers” and only managed to release five singles and one album...
  
  
• The X-Rippers
• The X-Spurtz
• Xdreamysts
• Xena Zerox
• XL5
• Xposers
• The Xpozez
• Xpress
• XS
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• XS Discharge
• XS-Energy
• Xtract
• The Xtraverts

Y

• The Yachts
• The Yobs
  The Boys (UK Band)
  The Boys are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1976.Members of the band had previously played in other groups, such as London SS and Hollywood Brats. After recording four studio albums and eight singles, as well as recording Christmas themed music under the name The Yobs, they disbanded...
  
  
• Yorkshire Rats
• Young Marble Giants
  Young Marble Giants
  Young Marble Giants were a post-punk band formed in Cardiff, Wales in 1978. A trio, their music was constructed around the powerful and minimal instrumentation of brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham along with the vocals of Alison Statton.-History:...
  
  
• Your Demise
  Your Demise
  Your Demise is a five-piece band from St Albans, Brighton and Salisbury in the United Kingdom. They began in 2003 and have shared stages and tours with Biohazard, Comeback Kid, Bury Your Dead, Enter Shikari, The Devil Wears Prada, Miss May I, Parkway Drive and A Day to Remember. On 22 September...
  
  
• Your Hero
• Youthanasia PX
  Bullshit Detector
  Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band...
  
  
• Youth in Asia

Z

• Z-Men
• Zanti Misfitz
• Zatopeks
  Zatopeks
  Zatopeks are a British pop punk band who formed in the United Kingdom in 2001; several band members played together in the band called 3½" Floppy founded in 1999 at Birmingham University...
  
  
• Pete Zear
• Zeitgeist
• Zero Zero
• The Zeros
  The Zeros (UK band)
  The Zeros were one of the early English punk groups, as chronicled in Henrik Poulsen's book 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave. They released a single called "Hungry" in November 1977 on the Small Wonder Records label....
  
  
• Zipper
• The Zipps
• The Zips
• Zipz
• The Zones
  Zones (band)
  Zones was a British punk and power pop band founded in 1977, after the end of PVC2 and the Midge Ure's membership demise. PVC2 was conformed by Ure on guitar, Russell Webb on bass, Billy McIsaac on keyboards and Kenny Hyslop on drums...
  
  
• Zoot Alors
• The Zorkie Twins
• Zorro
• Zounds
  Zounds
  Zounds are an English anarchist band formed in 1977 from loose jamming sessions around the Reading area. Originally they were part of the cassette culture movement, releasing material on the F**k Off Records label, and were also involved in the squatting and free festival scene...