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OUR homage to John Peel returns for a one off show:

1919

"The band formed in December 1980 in Bradford and set about recording heavy, melodic, intense dance music with no frills and pretentions. The band were an early contributor to what became the Goth genre." (Gods and Alchoves)

1919 had chart success with the singles "Caged", "Repulsion" and "Cry Wolf"" as well as the 1984 LP "Machine", and recorded two Peel Sessions. Having achieved indie success in the early ?80s, they returned after a 30-year hiatus to release the critically-acclaimed "Bloodline" LP (8/10 Vive Le Rock; 9/10 Rush on Rock) on Westworld Recordings. However, they would also lose their guitarist Mark Tighe to cancer shortly before the album?s release in 2017.

By this point, though, 1919 had cemented an international following through extensive European tours and festival appearances. Setting their sights on the US, the band, now with guitarist Sam Evans signed to iconic Los Angeles label Cleopatra Records to release their third album, "Futurecide" (2019). Set to embark on their first tour of the USA that summer, the band were unable to secure visas following recent Federal shutdown. However, they pressed ahead with packed dates in Mexico and Costa Rica before returning to Europe. The album featured Tighe?s final performance, alongside an appearance from Cry Wolf-era bass player Steve Madden, who tragically suffered the same fate as Tighe soon after.
In 2020, having also lost long-time friend and crew member Kev Holroyd, the band performed a memorial concert in his home town of Dewsbury on February 20. This would prove to be the band's final performance before the COVID-19 pandemic put an end to live performances worldwide. Planned tours in Europe and the UK with Then Comes Silence, as well as a one-off show with Killing Joke in Bristol, were subsequently cancelled or indefinitely postponed. This would also be the final show for departing bass player Karl Donner, who had been with the group since their reformation. On August 31, the band announced he would be replaced by ex-The Fall, PJ Harvey, and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry bassist and producer Simon "Ding" Archer.

Other activity in 2020 included the band's inclusion in Vive Le Rock's "Goth Annual One", and vocalist Goldhammer's unsuccessful bid to become Mayor of West Yorkshire. On January 29, 2021, an interview with Goth Haus LA revealed the title of their latest album, due for release this year, to be "Citizens of Nowhere".

INCA BABIES

Inca Babies were formed in Manchester?s infamous Hulme district in 1982 by Bill Marten (bass) and Harry Stafford (guitar, later vocals). Their music was a raunchy death ray twang from a punk-trash, Americana perspective, also informed by the goth scene which was just starting then and genuinely exciting. The Inca's first single 'The Interior' secured them the first of four John Peel sessions recorded between 1984-87. With two number one slots in the Indie single chart and a top 5 album 'Rumble', the Incas soon began to find an audience abroad. Tours of mainland Europe included Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Scandinavia. Three further albums (This Train, Opium Den and Evil Hour) and six more singles were released. During this time popularity was not a problem but keeping personnel was, and while singers and drummers came and went, Bill and Harry, the backbone of the band who played every gig and appeared on every record, struggled to keep the integrity of the band alive. The end came when there were no more singers and no more drummers.
But then in 2006 came the ?Best of? compilation 'Plutonium', and the band reformed in 2007 with Gold Blade drummer Rob Haynes the new occupant behind the drum kit. Gigs at home and abroad followed and a new album was midway through being written when the band were hit with the shocking news of the death of bassist Bill Marten. The band was put on hold while they came to terms with this loss, but it was eventually decided to keep Bill's legacy alive by continuing and finishing off the album they had started writing. Their old friend and former A Witness bass player Vince Hunt joined and made his live debut in Warsaw, Poland in late 2008. The album 'Death Message Blues' was released in October 2010, and their first single for 25 years, 'My Sick Suburb', was released on 7' blue vinyl in April 2012, followed by the album 'Deep Dark Blue' later that year. For Record Store Day 2014, the band released the 4 track 12' EP 'Scatter' on clear vinyl and their most recent album 'The Stereo Plan' was released in September 2014.

The Incas have continued to gig occasionally when their schedules permit and interest in the band remains high, prompting the issue of an 80s set, ?Live at the Hacienda?, by Smash records last year. The band have been recording during lockdown and have new material ready to go. They have played four times for us before including supporting Punishment of Luxury

https://www.facebook.com/incababies

THE WOLFHOUNDS

The Wolfhounds played the very first Peel Regenerated show at Stockton's Georgian Theatre back in 2014. They had played the Dovecot Arts Centre back in the late eighties. Romford's representatives of the C86 boom, signed to the hip Pink Label for debut single 'Cut The Cake.' An administrative error relegated the raucous and far superior effort, the raw garagey 'L.A. Juice' to the B side and set the template for the Wolfhounds ill-fated career Part 1. Their second single, 'Anti Midas Touch' was an absolute classic masterpiece and would have been a massive hit had it been released 10 years later, when indie acts were making waves in Britpop's heyday, but in 1986 it was lost in the shuffle, except for on the John Peel show where it featured on the first of three Peel sessions the band recorded.

After a brief flirtation with a major label for the 'Me' single, the band regrouped with a new line-up and sealed their obscurity with a new uncompromising approach and a string of great records, culminating in 1990's final album, 'Blown Away', which was informed by the noise rock of Dinosaur Jr and My Bloody Valentine. Around this time, the band spent a week in Preston on the way back from gigs in the north, literally penniless and stuck until they organised a show to fund their travel home.
The Wolfhounds got back together in 2005 for a 20th anniversary gig and gigged sporadically up for the next few years before deciding to up their game. First, they released a clutch of amazing new singles that stood up against anything in their back catalogue and were collected on the 'Middle Aged Freaks' album in 2014. Two fantastic new Wolfhounds albums have also appeared since then, ?Untied Kingdom? in 2016 and ?Electric Music? in 2020, which were both timely, relevant, fiercely intelligent, and genuinely the band?s best work to date.

https://www.facebook.com/TheWolfhounds

The mysterious Rudi Betamax & The Smalltown Poseurs will open the show:
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99 Southfield Road,

Middlesbrough,

North Yorkshire,

England,

TS1 3EZ.