Sore Throat Band

Sore Throat Band
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Sore Throat were an English new wave / punk band from Highgate in London , England, formed in 1975. They released seven singles between 1978 and 1981, and one album in 1979, Sooner Than You Think , on the Hurricane label . The band consisted of Justin Ward (vocals & harmonica), Matthew Flowers (keyboards), Daniel Flowers (bass), Reid Savage (guitars), Greg Mason (sax) and Mark Burton then Robin Knapp then Clive Kirby (drums). Justin Ward left the band in January 1980 with Matt & Dan Flowers taking up joint responsibility for vocals. In September 1980 Clive Kirby left the band and Conrad Warre (guitar, vocals) & Nick Pepper (drums), both formerly of One Hand Clapping , joined until the band's final gig in October 1981. The band made over 475 live appearances.

In the early 1970s Matt & Dan Flowers formed a band with Ollie Marland called The Moggers. The band developed over the next few years under different names ranging from The Blades, The New Moggers, The New Blades adding Greg Mason, saxophone & Reid Savage guitar (for a short period) along the way before settling on Jam and bringing in Aidan Heed on guitar & vocals and Mark “Dick” Burton on drums. The first full line-up of “Jam” Flowers, Flowers, Heed, Burton & Mason played their first and only gig at St Anthony's School in Hampstead, North London on 15 October 1974. Heed left and singer, harmonica player and songwriter Justin Ward joined.

When punk band The Jam entered the music scene in 1975 the band changed their name briefly to Juice (playing at the Nag's Head in High Wycombe – July 1975) before settling on Sore Throat. Now sometimes referred to as the Original Sore Throat due to another band (playing crust punk/grindcore) taking the name up in the late 1980s.

In the summer of 1975 Reid Savage re-joined the band. The band played regular concerts from early 1976 and in August 1976 started a 15-month weekly residency at the Pindar of Wakefield (now known as The Water Rats) in Kings Cross, North London. The residency acted as a springboard to gigs throughout the United Kingdom. A major breakthrough was an 18 venue tour supporting Deaf School from early 1978. As a headline act many bands who went on to great success did their early gigs supporting Sore Throat including Madness , Adam & The Ants , Bad Manners , The Members and many others. The band allowed The Slits on stage to do their first performance at the Pindar of Wakefield in May 1977. Tours followed in Ireland , Holland , Austria and Switzerland . In the spirit of the times all earnings were shared equally and the band were mostly self-managed by Matthew Flowers. This led to Justin Ward leaving the band following an appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test in January 1980. The band continued with Matt & Dan sharing singing duties for the next eight months with one of their best singles Diggin’ a Dream released in April 1980. In August 1980 drummer Clive Kirby left the band and shortly afterwards new singer/songwriter and guitarist Conrad Warre together with his drummer Nick Pepper (both ex One-Hand Clapping) joined the band. The music evolved into a sophisticated reggae/rock/jazz sound, but sadly didn't put out a new album – just one further single Bank Raid was released in June 1981 following the departure of Reid Savage. The last ever gig was a sold out night at the Greyhound in October 1981. Conrad Warre wanted to change the name of the band and change the royalty distribution and a compromise couldn't be reached.

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There are at least two bands sharing the name Sore Throat: 1. Sore Throat were a short lived yet important band in the later 80's UK grindcore and hardcore punk movement which featured members of Doom, Deviated Instinct and other crust punk bands. Sore Throat formed in 1987 in Yorkshire, UK as a crust punk, hardcore punk, and grindcore act with the initial line up as Rich Militia (vocals), Brian "Bri" Talbot (guitar), John Doom (bass) and Nick Royles (drums). They are known as one of the first bands to give rise to and play in the style of "noisecore". Tho… read more

There are at least two bands sharing the name Sore Throat: 1. Sore Throat were a short lived yet important band in the later 80's UK grindcore and hardcore punk movement which featured members of Doom, Deviated Instinct and other crust punk bands. Sore Throat formed in 1987 in Yorkshir… read more

There are at least two bands sharing the name Sore Throat: 1. Sore Throat were a short lived yet important band in the later 80's UK grindcore and hardcore punk movement which featured members of Doom, Deviated Instinct and other crust punk bands. Sore Throat formed in 1987 in Yorkshire, UK as a crust punk, hardcore punk, and grindcore act with the initial… read more

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Sore Throat is an English grindcore / crust punk / noisecore band from Huddersfield in Yorkshire, formed in 1989. Sore Throat was put together by Richard "Militia" Walker (vocals) and Nick Royles (drums), and recruited John "Doom" Pickering (bass) and Brian "Bri" Talbot (guitar), both former members of Doom. Sore Throat vehemently opposed to what they saw as commercialism of the hardcore scene, lyrically ridiculing the likes of Napalm Death, The Sex Pistols, Suicidal Tendencies, DRI, OLD, Wehrmacht and SOD. Other lyrics mocked Nazis, capitalism and the straight edge movement. The band released a number of demos and EPs, along with four albums: "Unhindered by Talent" (1988), "Inde$troy" (as Saw Throat, 1989) "Disgrace to the Corpse of Sid" (1989), and "Never Mind the Napalm... Here's Sore Throat" (1990). The band broke up in 1990. Rick Walker went on to play in Solstice and Nailbomb. Guitarist Brian Talbot went on to play with doom
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