early punk band formed in 1977

The band’s original lineup was James, Sayer, Dave Parsons (bass), Tex Axile (keyboards), and Pol Burton (drums). Sayer was originally in an early punk band formed in 1977 and based in Bexhill-on-Sea called The Plastics , later Plastix, whose founding members were Sayer, Michael Cook and Mark Storr Hoggins and they were later joined by Mark Wilmshurst. They played gigs in Hastings, Eastbourne, and Brighton as well as in London at The Roxy . When The Plastix split, Sayer and the drummer Storr Hoggins joined the Brighton band Midnight and the Lemon Boys, who supported U2 on their first UK tour in 1979. Parsons and Axile had also both been in punk bands before joining Transvision Vamp, Parsons in The Partisans and Axile in various bands, most notably The Moors Murderers and X-Ray Spex offshoot Agent Orange .