Angletrax was a British new wave/

punk rock Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced sh ...

group that existed in the late 1970s, who were signed to Germany's

Hansa Records Hansa Records (also known as Hansa, Hansa Musik Produktion or Hansa International) was a record label based in Berlin, Germany founded in 1962. History In the early 1960s, brothers Peter and Thomas Meisel, grandchildren of Will Meisel, who was th ...

label. The members were: Wendy Herman (vocals), Martin Heath (bass), Lin Jammet (guitar), Jerry Minge (keyboards), Dan Who (drums). In 1979, the band released an EP entitled ''"Things To Make And Do"'' and the LP ''"Angletrax"'' with the following songs: ''Silent Majority, Things to Make and Do, Why Not, Shepherds Bush, Bad Mood, Mental Block, Monica, Private Life, God and Chips, Propaganda Man, I to I, Preconceptions'' The LP was released on Hansa'a Ariola label with number AHAL 8009. Recorded on either side of the arrival in power of

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, it embodies a mature punk sensibility with echoes of mental instability, the madness of consumerism and

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. The band were on the bill at London's Marquee Club on Saturday 7 April 1979 and Friday 11 May 1979. They also played Eric's in Liverpool on 31 May 1979, with 'special guests'

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic music, electronic band formed in Meols, Merseyside in 1978 by Andy McCluskey (vocals, bass guitar) and Paul Humphreys (keyboards, vocals). Regarded as pioneers of electronic musi ...

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Angletrax at Discogs
English punk rock groups Musical groups established in the 1970s Hansa Records artists {{Punk-music-stub