Pel Mel were an Australian post-punk indie-pop band who formed in Newcastle in 1979 and split in 1984. Like so many old post-punk bands, they’ve reformed in recent years, and have a collection and a live album out soon.
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Tag: Volition Records
Severed Heads, Boxcar, Single Gun Theory and the Volition Records package tour.
I’ve seen Severed Heads three times. First time was Perth in late ‘91 on the Volition Records “An Intro To Techno” package tour. At this point “techno” still specifically referred to original Detroit techno; the pounding four-on-the-floor stuff the KLF were topping the charts with was various hyphenations of “-house”. Volition almost certainly meant something a bit more like “industrial”, but for some reason people then seemed reluctant to say that word with a straight face.
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