The Art Attacks were an English

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band from April 1977 to March 1978. Their songs released as singles were "I am a Dalek"/"Neutron Bomb" and "Punk Rock Stars"/"Rat City". The group was formed by Edwin Pouncey and Steve Spear, two students from the

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, London for a one-off gig at the college. They were asked to do a gig at

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and this led to the band's short career. They had two tracks on the ''Live at the Vortex'' (NEMS) compilation album, ("Frankensteins Heartbeat" and "Animal Bondage") and one on the ''

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'' (

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) compilation album, ("Arabs in Arrads"). They played at most of the London punk club and pub venues including The Marquee, Nashville and Vortex supporting bands like

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The Motors The Motors were a British pub rock band formed in London in 1977 by former Ducks Deluxe members Nick Garvey and Andy McMaster together with guitarist Rob Hendry (who was replaced in May 1977 by Bram Tchaikovsky) and drummer Ricky Slaughter. ...

and

The Lurkers The Lurkers are a British punk rock band from Uxbridge, West London. They are notable for being the first group ever on Beggars Banquet Records for whom they released two albums, the first of which charted in the UK Albums Chart, while five si ...

. They also played out of town at venues in the south and north east of England. Their tracks have turned up on various punk compilations over the years and were collected and released with a bootleg live recording on the ''Outrage and Horror'' album (Overground Records). In the initial rehearsals and demo Rick Slaughter was on drums (later in

) and Rob Smith on bass. For a time Robert Gotobed (later

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) was on drums and played on the track "Rat City". The band eventually became: *Edwin Pouncey (aka

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) - Vocals *M.S (Marion Fudger ex of

The Derelicts The Derelicts were a London-based " ctivistR&B band" active from 1974–1976, well known on the London pub rock/squat rock circuit, consisting of Susan Gogan, lead vox/artwork; Richard Williams, drums; Barbara Gogan, guitar/backing vox; Marion ...

) - Bass *Steve Spear- Guitar *JD Haney - Drums (later with

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)

Tagmemics

After the Art Attacks ended the members of the group worked using the name Tagmemics. They played one gig supporting

in 1979 and recorded the single "Take Your Brain Out For a Walk", on LAX records in 1980. The single was played on the

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Show by special guest DJ

Mark Mothersbaugh Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (; born May 18, 1950) is an American composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, lead singer and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, whose " Whip It" was a top 2 ...

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(in character as

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) on 19 October 1980. Mothersbaugh said before playing the single "this one's from a band from London, they don't ever play anywhere, they just kind of play in their bedroom or livingroom or something. It's a funny band because nobody in the band weighs less than 250 pounds."Dr. Demento Show #80-42

References

External links

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