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The Partisans timeline (EN)

2006
toured the UK

In 2006, the band toured the UK with fellow Welsh hardcore punk band Picture Frame Seduction and played the Berlin festival Punk n’ Disorderly in 2007. No further plans are being made to play live, although on 27 November 2015 they opened for Italian glam rock band, Giuda, at Orion,…
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1984
Blind Ambition EP

After the departure of Louise Wright, the remaining members relocated to Bayswater in west London , with new bassist Dave Parsons to relaunch the band. Their next release was the three-track Blind Ambition EP on Cloak & Dagger Records, which peaked at No. 23 on the Indie Chart, and got…
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The band split up

The band split up in 1984. Dave Parsons later found chart success with Transvision Vamp and, even later, having global success with Bush . Lealand moved to Scandinavia . He and Harrington recorded one more session in late 1989 for Link Records under the name Agent Orange including Lealand’s then…
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1982
17 Years of Hell

The band released its second single, “17 Years of Hell”, on 27 May 1982, peaking at No. 2 on the Indie Chart. This was followed by their self-titled debut LP, released in February 1983. It hit No. 5 in the Indie Chart and No. 1 in the Punk Chart, amid…
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1981
Police Story / Killing Machine

Influenced by Sex Pistols , The Clash , and The Ramones , the band started off covering punk rock hits and soon started to compose their own material. They were the second band signed to Chris Berry’s No Future Records label, and their debut release, the double A-sided “Police Story”…
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1978
The band formed

The band formed in early 1978, with an original line-up of Phil Stanton (vocals), Rob “Spike” Harrington (guitar and vocals), Andy Lealand (guitar), Mark “Shark” Harris (drums), and Mark “Savage” Parsons (bass guitar). Parsons and Stanton left in 1979, with Harrington moving to lead vocals, and Lealand’s girlfriend Louise Wright…
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