Pink Industry were a
post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of punk music that emerged in the late 1970s as musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-roc ...
band from
Liverpool
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formed by
Jayne Casey
Jayne Casey (born 1956, in Wallasey, Cheshire) is an English artistic director who was known for being involved in the Liverpool punk and new wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s, with Big in Japan, Pink Military and Pink Industry. A Keychang ...
after her previous band
Pink Military
Pink Military (originally Pink Military Stand Alone) were a post-punk band from Liverpool. Led by former Big in Japan singer Jayne Casey, other band members included former Deaf School drummer Tim Whitaker, guitarist Martin Dempsey who also pla ...
split up in 1981.
History
When Pink Military split up in 1981, singer
Jayne Casey
Jayne Casey (born 1956, in Wallasey, Cheshire) is an English artistic director who was known for being involved in the Liverpool punk and new wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s, with Big in Japan, Pink Military and Pink Industry. A Keychang ...
formed the more electronically oriented band Pink Industry along with
Ambrose Reynolds
Ambrose Reynolds (born 12 June 1960; credited also as Ambrose) is an English musician and artist who formed part of the 1970s and 1980s musical scene in Liverpool, playing bass in various bands.
Biography
Reynolds began making music as a chor ...
(who had played with Casey in
Big in Japan in the 1970s, and was an early member of
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an English synth-pop band formed in Liverpool in 1980. The group's best-known line-up comprised Holly Johnson (vocals), Paul Rutherford (backing vocals), Peter Gill (drums, percussion), Mark O'Toole (bass guit ...
), the duo initially using several other musicians, later becoming a trio with the addition of Tadzio Jodlowski.
[Larkin, Colin (2002) ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music'', MUZE UK Ltd, , p. 337][Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 454][Kellman, Andy]
Pink Industry Biography
, Allmusic
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, retrieved 2011-05-13 The band's sound was described by ''
Trouser Press
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'' as "like
Siouxsie Sioux
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fronting
Japan
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".
[Grant, Steven & Robbins, Ira]
Pink Military/Pink Industry
, ''Trouser Press
''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...
'', retrieved 2011-05-13 The band's first release was the ''Forty-Five''
EP featuring lead track "Is This The End?", released in February 1982.
The band's debut album, ''Low Technology'', was released the following year, reaching number 12 on the
UK Independent Chart
The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom. Originally published in January 1980, and widely known as the indie chart, the rele ...
.
A second album, ''Who Told You You Were Naked'', followed later the same year, and peaked at number nine on the Indie chart.
Between 1982 and 1984, the band recorded four sessions for
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly fr ...
's
BBC Radio 1
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show.
Pink Industry
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, retrieved 2011-05-13 After a two-year gap since their previous release, the band returned in 1985 with the ''New Beginnings'' album. A final single was released in late 1987, the band splitting up around the same time.
Discography
Albums
*''Low Technology'' (1983), Zulu - UK Indie No. 12[Lazell, Barry (1998) ''Indie Hits 1980-1989'', Cherry Red Books, , p. 173]
*''Who Told You You Were Naked?'' (1983), Zulu - UK Indie No. 9
Singles, EPs
*''Forty-Five'' EP (1982), Zulu
*"What Wouldn't I Give" (1985), Zulu - UK Indie No. 9
References
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English post-punk music groups
Musical groups from Liverpool
Musical groups established in 1981
Musical groups disestablished in 1987