Dick Lucas (born 1961) is a British vocalist and lyricist of several punk rock bands. He is best known for being a member the British

anarcho-punk Anarcho-punk (also known as anarchist punk or peace punk) is ideological subgenre of punk rock that promotes anarchism. Some use the term broadly to refer to any punk music with anarchist lyrical content, which may figure in crust punk, hardcor ...

band Subhumans, and the

ska-punk Ska punk (also spelled ska-punk) is a fusion genre that mixes ska music and punk rock music together. (sometimes spelled skacore) is a subgenre of ska punk that mixes ska with hardcore punk. Early ska punk mixed both 2 tone and ska with hard ...

band

Citizen Fish Citizen Fish is an English punk rock band that has been active since 1990 and shares members with Subhumans. Citizen Fish does not emphasize the raw political statements and nihilistic viewpoint of the former, instead focusing on issues of ...

that he co-founded in 1990.

Biography

Lucas started his career as a vocalist in The Mental from March 1979 to August 1980. He then joined the Subhumans in September 1980. With the breakup of Subhumans in the mid 1980s came another band,

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, from 1986, followed by a short silence from Lucas, after which he co-founded

. In 1995, Lucas's abstract novel Write The Way Up was published (an audio version of which was released in 2012 by Bluurg Records). During early 2010, he contributed a spoken piece about the

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for Global Parasite's song "Seven Seven". Lucas also appeared in the 2007 movie '' Punk's Not Dead'', where he discussed his views on punk rock and other philosophical issues.

References

1961 births Living people Anarcho-punk musicians British male singers English punk rock singers {{UK-singer-stub