Their second album, Chairs Missing (1978), showed a substantial elaboration of the stark minimalism of Pink Flag , with longer, more atmospheric songs and synthesizer parts added by producer Mike Thorne . ” Outdoor Miner ” was a minor hit, peaking at number 51 in the UK singles chart. The…
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The parents of the Farriss boys relocated to Perth , Western Australia in 1978, taking Jon to continue his schooling and as soon as Hutchence and Andrew finished school, the rest of the band followed. They briefly performed as The Vegetables before returning to Sydney ten months later and recording…
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Elliott proposed the name ” Deaf Leopard ” which was originally a band name he thought of while designing band posters in art class. At Kenning’s suggestion, the spelling was slightly modified to make the name seem less like that of a punk band. In January 1978, Steve Clark joined…
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The members of Hüsker Dü first met in the fall of 1978. At the time, Mould was a freshman at Macalester College in Saint Paul and frequented nearby Cheapo Records, a Saint Paul record store where Hart was a sales clerk. Hart and Norton had originally met while applying for…
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Mark Arm and Steve Turner met through their association with Mr. Epp and the Calculations. This band formed in 1978 in Bellevue, Washington , a suburb of Seattle. While at Bellevue Christian High School, Mark McLaughlin (later known as Mark Arm) and some friends started Mr. Epp and the Calculations,…
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Bobby Gillespie moved to Mount Florida in southeastern Glasgow, where he attended King’s Park Secondary School , where he first met Robert Young. Another schoolfriend was Alan McGee , who took Gillespie to see his first concert, Thin Lizzy . McGee and Gillespie were heavily influenced by punk rock ,…
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Only 18 at the time, Joe Elliott tried out for the band as a guitarist following a chance meeting with Willis after missing a bus in November 1977.
The band made their debut on 16 August 1977 at Whale Beach , 40 km (25 mi) north of Sydney.
As an initial idea of Deaf School ‘s Clive Langer , his friend Bill Drummond (guitar, vocals), Kevin Ward (bass, vocals), and Phil Allen (drums) formed the band in May 1977, playing only three gigs, the first of them at Bretton Hall College in Yorkshire. In August, the line-up grew…
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In April 1977, Feedback played their first gig for a paying audience at St. Fintan’s High School . Shortly thereafter, the band changed their name to “The Hype”. Dik Evans, who was older and by that time attending college, was becoming the odd man out of the group. The other…
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