!Action Pact!

"Action Pact" redirects here. For the album by Sloan, see Action Pact (album).
!Action Pact!
Also known as The Bad Samaritans
Origin Stanwell, London, England
Genres Punk rock
Years active 19811986
Labels Fall Out, Captain Oi!
Past members George Cheex
Wild Planet
Dr. Phibes
Joe Fungus
Grimly Fiendish
Phil Langham
Thistles

!Action Pact! were a punk rock band, formed in 1981 as the Bad Samaritans by guitarist Wild Planet, bassist Dr. Phibes, and drummer Joe Fungus.

History

They were from Stanwell in Middlesex. The John from Dead Mans Shadow (D.M.S.) was the band's original lead singer. He left the band to concentrate on D.M.S. He was replaced by George Cheex, who got the job because of "her courage to scream along with the band's songs." Both George and Joe were 15 years old and still attending school when the Heathrow Touchdown EP was released in October, 1981. Two of the band's contributions to the EP, "London Bouncers" and "All Purpose Action Footwear", got the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel. He played the single many times and wanted the band to record their first session, which they did on 22 February 1982.[1] They recorded "People", "Suicide Bag", "Mindless Aggression", "Losers", and "Cowslick Blues". The resulting demo tape caught the attention of the fledgling label Fall Out Records, which signed the band as the first act on its roster. !Action Pact!'s label debut, the Suicide Bag EP, was released in July 1982 and rocketed to the top of the British punk chart. The band would later be joined by drummer Grimly Fiendish and bassist Thistles, and producer Phil Langham would also moonlight on bass under the name Elvin Pelvin.

Other projects

Wild Planet (Des Stanley) now manages the heavy rock band, Purge (Also on Myspace), in which his son, Mark Stanley, plays bass guitar. Purge has sometimes played a live cover version of !Action Pact!'s "London Bouncers". Joe Fungus also played with the punk band called Savage Upsurge. moving on to join The Final Hour also a stanwell based band, with whom he recorded some demos before leaving to play in a series of covers bands. Original bass player Kim Igoe (also known as Dr Phibes) was the bands lyricist. He left after the first album.

Discography

Chart positions shown are from the UK Indie Chart.[2]

Albums

Compilations

Compilation appearances

Singles/EPs

References

  1. BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - Action Pact
  2. Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1999. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, April 07, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.