Late 70`s Swindon Punk Bands

[armada1]

Does anyone know of these late 70`s Swindon punk bands....The Anikists,The Emptyheads,The X-ITS,or The Ray-Zors? Did any of them release any vinyl? The Anikists were the first punk band i saw live(i was 13 i think)and they had a HUGE effect on my life,not all for the best!

[Answerprancer]

Best thing - musically speaking - to come out of Swindon IMO was XTC - of of the most fantastically underrated bands ever, and their 'alter ego' The Dukes Of Stratosphere...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ZKJpMJhPA&feature=related

[Answerprancer]

Your question could almost certainly be answerewd by Andy Partridge if you can get hold of him somehow. I heard he still lives in Swindon.

[armada1]

I like XTC,more so now than years back...my sister-in-law used to play tennis with Colin Moulding,and my brother,who worked for BT,once had Christmas dinner with Andy Partridges mum after fixing her phone on Christmas day!

[Answerprancer]

LOL..nice one.
Poor guy used to suffer excriciating stage fright apparently, shame really - I always thought he had a great energy eg...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RApvaQ0uGTw&feature=fvw

[jerryrabbit]

the empty heads didnt release any vinyl,but if you search swindon viewpoint you will find a video. And as someone who was a first generation punk in swindon i havent heard of any of the others. There was in fact only the empty heads and the Purges between 1976 and 1979.

[armada1]

Cheers for that,and sorry it`s took a while to answer,but by god the Emptyheads were good(just watched em on swindon viewpoint) I should`ve also mentioned the Padlocks...i think they released Action man on that Songs from pigland compo and i`d love a link if you`ve got one......aparrently produced by the art teacher at what was my old school Hreod Burna(i got expelled) The Anikists i remember well,Ferndale school.......Birdy on vocals,Richard Kilford on lead,Pacer(Gary Pearce) On bass and Louie on stix....i watched em live a couple of times and i was always blown away.....i`ll never forget DC agro! DC agro is here to stay,the DC screws are gonna pay,gonna wipe em out in a single kill,and leave the country at a STANDSTILL!
Fair play by the way for being first generation punk,i was just a couple of years too young for 76/77,but i reckon i had it better by being the right age for the skin/punk/oi thing in the early 80's

[jeanettem]

I was the guitarist in the Ray-Zors and we made a compilation album called Music from Pigland with other Swindon bands.

[armada1]

Jeanette,i think i once meet you in nappy night at the Brunel rooms........a very fine young skinhead girl if i rememer