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Specimen are a British band founded in the 1980s. Their music has been described as spanning many different genres of music, including glam , goth , punk and post-punk , and the band is widely credited as one of the pioneers of the goth subculture , both musically and stylistically.
In 1978, he became a member of Bristol band Europeans. In 1980, he formed Bristol band Specimen with Ollie Wisdom and Kev Mills. In 1982, after moving in London and renting a place in Soho, [1] Klein co-founded with Wisdom the club the Batcave, which was a party on Wednesday nights at The Gargoyle. [2]
In the early 1980s Wisdom was the singer in the theatrical glam and gothic rock group Specimen, and co-founded [4] and ran The Batcave, London's weekly goth club-night at the Gargoyle Club. [5] Before forming Specimen and opening the Batcave, Wisdom was the frontman for the punk band The Unwanted. [6]
The bands involved included electronic leading act Alien Sex Fiend, [1] the host's band Specimen who took influence from 1970s glam rock, [1] Hamish's band Sexbeat, and Sex Gang Children, who would go on to prove influential in the gothic rock, dark cabaret and deathrock movements. At the Gargoyle, the Batcave also showed 8mm films in its old ...
Shrimp Boat was an American rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1987. After the band dissolved in 1993, Sam Prekop and Eric Claridge formed The Sea and Cake. [1] Ian Schneller and Tom Jasek went on to form Falstaff. [2] Schneller's experience with the band would also lead him to create Specimen Products. [3]
Both were part of the cover band Gemini that performed songs by popular heavy metal groups. [23] They quickly gained interest in heavier styles and joined the thrash metal cover band Fiend, but were kicked out and subsequently recorded a death metal tape under the name Turd, with Dunn on vocals and Patton on the instruments. [24]
The Specials were an English 2 tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry. [1] The bands first stable lineup of the group consisted of Terry Hall and Neville Staple on vocals, Jerry Dammers on keyboards, Lynval Golding and Roddy Radiation on guitars, Horace Panter on bass, John Bradbury on drums, and Dick Cuthell and Rico Rodriguez on horns.
In 1993, Blind Idiot God and Henry Rollins wrote and recorded the title song for the movie Freaked, marking the first and only time the band collaborated with a vocalist. [5] The entire band performed on Praxis' album Sacrifist, released in 1993. After Cyclotron was released, the members began pursuing their own separate musical endeavors.