The Skunks/Dole Q

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Info courtesy of an email from Gerry Lambe 24.12.2002.

"We played the Roxy in 1977/78 supporting The Buzzcocks amongst many others. We then reformed as SKUNKS (London was full of the graffiti), supported XTC at the 100 Club, The Police at the Vortex, The Buzzcocks at Manchester Free Trade Hall.

Roxy Club. Note 'The Skunks Stink' graffiti !

We were spotted by Pete Townshend and Keith Moon at a Vortex gig supporting The Police. They took us on to Eel Pie Island records. Our 1st single Good from the Bad / Back Street Fighting (Eel Pie 1978) sold 2000 copies. Played on John Peel show etc. We then went on to Cobra records, a subsidiary of EMI, and released Motions and Lucy as Craze."

Dole Q / The Skunks were:
Gerry Lambe - Guitar, Franco Cornelli - Guitar,
Hugh Ashton - Bass and Pete Sturgeon - Drums.

"Siouxsie: "It has all gone very stale" (talking about the punk scene) ... Steve: "There's even a band called Dole Queue - the pits."
Sounds. Jane Suck Interview late 1977

"By the way, the best thing about the Skunks' live show was that they dressed in black and had white skunk streaks in their black hair made from flour - a gooey mess by the end of the gig I saw (Great Harry pub, Hemel Hempstead)." Email Peter Stanfield 1.5.03