Resisters

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There were a few bands about the time with a left wing 'angry' agenda that coincided with punk like The Derelicts and Mutha's Pride. Another band in this vein were The Resisters who featured our friend Susy Hogarth from The Innocents. She kindly provide the info of the band and pictures below.

This was a band with a bona-fide pedigree as a political band. There was a North London Press/ workers collective that ran a newspaper out of offices near Newington Green and the first three guys who started the band all worked there. The line up was:

Dave Gwynne-Jones - guitar
Geoff Holland - vocals
Kim Parker - keyboards
Susy Barry (me - now Hogarth) - drums
Ilse Zambouial - bass
Pete Mullineau - guitar

I know everyone's names because we did an album for Trikont - a Munich label and I've still got it. Recorded at pathway in 1978.

Susy second from Right

The R's existed for about four or five years - doing masses of gigs - we did Stonehenge, Notting Hill carnival, Rock against Racism, Squatters rights, Claimants Unions, Women's rights, you name it we did it. We gigged with loads of different 'rights' bands. We did a tour of Germany in an old Ambulance - again on the left-wing kind of of circuit. It was essentially angry punk! I played with them at the same time I was in the Innocents and as I got more in to trouble with drugs - I left around 22 years ago - when my son was 4'ish.

For what its worth - it was a really important band at the time for its beliefs about workers rights, sexual rights, women's rights etc., but I couldn't find any mention of them on the web.