This picture was taken from another website, Its a scan from the dieche cd.
This picture was taken from another website, Its a scan from the dieche cd.
The name 'Sex Gang Children' was a dynamic tag dreamt up and discarded by Malcolm McLaren in favor of Bow Wow Wow. It then passed to Boy George, who used it until he signed to Virgin and came over all consumer-friendly as Culture Club.
Aware of its pedigree, a fledgling band called Panic Button grabbed the baton and decked themselves out in appropriate fetish-punk garb. Decadent and furious, the Sex Gang Children proceeded to revitalize punk in the early 80s.
It was Panic Button vocalist Andi Sex Gang and bass player Dave Roberts who formed the new group, enlisting Terry McLeay (guitar) and Rob Stroud (drums). Their timing was immaculate: punk-pop bands such as Theatre of Hate and Wasted Youth were beginning to falter, and the post-Adam and the Ants audience to fracture. Sex Gang Children stepped into the void and became big on the scene very quickly, releasing Naked (1982), an acclaimed, cassette-only live album.
A prestigious Futurama festival appearance coincided with the Sex Gang Children's first vinyl record, Beasts!, an EP consisting of four reworked tracks from Naked and the macabre title track. This and the follow-up single, "Into The Abyss" (1982), both hovered in the higher echelons of the UK indie charts for months.
Andi Sex Gang also does solo work, please see his homesite for more info.