Some Punk & New Wave Figures

Sylvain Sylvain ~ 69 ~ Singer/guitarist with Proto-Punks The New York Dolls

THE NEW YOUR DOLLS ~ "LOOKING FOR A KISS";


THE NEW YORK DOLLS ~ "JET BOY";


THE NEW YORK DOLLS ~ "TRASH";


Ian North ~ Singer/guitarist/bassist with 1980's American New Wave bands Milk & Cookies, The Fast, NEO and solo

NEO ~ "TRANSISTER";


THE FAST ~ "LOVE ME LIKE A LOCOMOTIVE";


IAN NORTH ~ "WE'RE NOT LONELY";


Steve Brown ~ 62 ~ British music producer The Cult, The Alarm, Manic Street Preachers, Wham!)

THE CULT ~ "SHE SELLS SANCTUARY";


THE CULT ~ "RAIN";


Mark Keds ~ 50 ~ Singer guitarist with 1980's & 90's British Pop Punk band Senseless Things

SENESLESS THINGS ~ "TOO MUCH KISSING";


SENSELESS THINGS ~ "EASY TO SMILE";


SENESLESS THINGS ~ "THE WORD";


Warren McLean ~ Australian rock drummer (Divinyls, Machinations, I'm Talking)

THE DIVINYLS ~ "I TOUCH MYSELF";


THE DIVINYLS ~ "THE GOOD DIE YOUNG";


THE DIVINYLS ~ "I AIN'T GONNA EAT OUT MY HEART ANYMORE";


MATT HARRIS ~ Bassist with 1990's US Indie Rock band The Posies

THE POSIES ~ "SOLAR SISTER";


THE POSIES ~ "DREAM ALL DAY";


Bryan St. Pere - 52 - Drummer w/American 90's Grunge band HUM ("Stars")

HUM ~ "STARS";


Steve Robinson - 57 - Drummer with 80's UK Hardcore band Disorder

DISORDER ~ "LIFE";


DISORDER ~ "COMPLETE DISORDER";


David Edwards ~ 59 ~ Singer with Welsh Post Punk band Datblygu

DATBLYGU ~ "CASSEROLE EFEILLIAID";


DATBLYGU ~ "BLONEG MEDDYLIAU";


Alexander Lipnitsky - 66 - Musician with 1980's & 90's Russian Indie band Zvuki Mu

Pyotr Mamonov ~ 70 ~ Guitarist with Russian Post Punk band Zvuki Mu

ZVUKI MU;


ZVUKI MU;


ZVUKI MU ~ "GREY PIGEON";


Pil Trafa - 62 - Singer and composer w/Argentine 1980's New Wave band Los Violadores

LOS VIOLADORES ~ "SENTIMENTAL FATALE";


LOS VIOLADORES ~ "UNO DOS ULTRAVIOLENTO";


Paul Couter - 72 - Guitarist with 1980's Belgian band TC Matic

TC MATIC ~ "LE JAVA";


TC MATIC ~ "MIDDLE CLASS & BLUE";


Aaron Wegelin - Drummer with Athens, Georgia Indie Pop band Elf Power & Vic Chesnut

ELF POWER ~ "ALL THE WORLD IS WAITING";


ELF POWER ~ "DARKEST VIRGINIA";


Francoise Cactus ~ Drummer & singer with German Art Punk bands Stereo Total & Les Lolitas

STEREO TOTAL ~ "CINEMASCOPE";


STEREO TOTAL ~ "EINE MUSIK";


Matt Miller - 34 - Keyboardist with American indie band Titus Andronicus

TITUS ANDRONICUS ~ "A MORE PERFECT UNION";


Steve Gerdes ~ 60's ~ Bass/Guitar/Keys with Los Angeles Post-Punk band Fourwaycross

FOURWAYCROSS ~ "ANGEL'S LULLABYE";


Chris Hutka - American electro punk rock vocalist w/Buffalo band The Bunny the Bear

THE BUNNY THE BEAR ~ "AISLE";


THE BUNNY THE BEAR ~ "IN LIKE FLYNN";

A Few Australian New Wave figure pass on

Alan Nevin; keyboardist from The Sports, a Joe Jackson/Elvis Costello/Graham Parker type New Wave band from Australia who had a number of hits down under and couple of hits in North America in the early 1980's, including a cover of Jackie DeShannon's "When you walk in the room" Died this past week;

THE SPORTS ~ "WHO LISTENS TO THE RADIO":




THE SPORTS ~ "WHEN YOU WALK IN THE ROOM";


Greg Ham; Sax, flute and keyboardist with Men at Work, ubiquitous band in the early to mid 1980's MTV era with several hits like "Who can it be now", "Down under" "Be good Johnny", and "It's a mistake";

MEN AT WORK ~ "WHO CAN IT BE NOW";




MEN AT WORK ~ "DOWN UNDER";



And while we're at it there's Peter Jones ~ British drummer of New Zealand Band Crowded House ~ 49
CROWDED HOUSE ~ "DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER";

And Chrissy Amphlett, 53, singer for The Divinyls> They had been a part of the Aussie scene for some time but it was their guilty pleasure hit (admit it, you listened) "I Touch Myself" which really gave them their 15 minutes of fame.
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THE DIVINYLS ~ "I TOUCH MYSELF";