I'm So Hollow were an English

post-punk Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in late 1977 in the wake of punk rock. Post-punk musicians departed from punk's fundamental elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a broader, more experiment ...

band from

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its so ...

, England, active from 1978 to 1981. They were part of the Sheffield scene in

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

, alongside such bands as

Clock DVA Clock DVA are a musical group from Sheffield, England, whose style has touched on industrial music, industrial, post-punk, and Electronic body music, EBM. They formed in 1978 by Adi Newton (born Gary Coates) and Steven "Judd" Turner. Along with ...

Comsat Angels The Comsat Angels were an English post-punk band from Sheffield, England, initially active from 1978 to 1995. Their music has been described as "abstract pop songs with sparse instrumentation, many of which were bleak and filled with some form ...

Artery An artery () is a blood vessel in humans and most other animals that takes oxygenated blood away from the heart in the systemic circulation to one or more parts of the body. Exceptions that carry deoxygenated blood are the pulmonary arteries in ...

The Human League The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic music, electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their t ...

and Vice Versa.

Line-up

The band's line-up was: Jane Wilson (vocals, keyboards), Rod Leigh (vocals, guitar), Gary Marsden (bass), and Yosef Sawicki (drums).

History

I'm So Hollow played their first gig opening for

in Sheffield's Penthouse Club. Their highest profile gig was at the

Futurama Festival Futurama Festival was an annual post-punk and gothic rock festival held at venues in Leeds, Stafford and Queensferry between 1979 and 1983. A sixth edition was held in 1989. It aimed for a relaunch in 2021 but, after being postponed, was forced t ...

in Leeds on 13 September 1980. They performed the son
"Touch"
as seen in Eve Wood's documentary film '' Made in Sheffield'' (2001). The band appeared on several compilations and recorded a

John Peel John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, broadcasting regularly from ...

session in 1980.Details of I'm So Hollow'
Peel session
/ref> They released their first and only single "Dreams to Fill the Vacuum" in 1980, and, feeling they had achieved their ambitions with the recording of the album ''Emotion/Sound/Motion'', split up shortly before its release in 1981.

Discography

Albums

* ''Emotion/Sound/Motion'' (1981, Illuminated Records P

Singles

* "Dreams to Fill the Vacuum"/"Distraction" (1980, Hollogram Records "

Compilation appearances

* "I Don't Know" on ''The First Fifteen Minutes'' (1980, Neutron P * "Touch" on ''Bouquet of Steel'' (1980, Aardvark P * "I Don't Know" on '' Hicks from the Sticks'' (1980, Rockburgh P

References

{{Authority control English post-punk music groups Musical groups established in 1978 Musical groups from Sheffield