The Nightingales
U.K. group the Nightingales had an especially angular approach to punk even as it was taking shape. Developing in the late 1970s and through the '80s alongside both the loud, fast, snotty punkers and anarcho post-punks, the Nightingales took as many cues from peers like the Clash and Alternative TV as they did Captain Beefheart or Faust. Though their initial run was short lived and produced just a few documents of their ever-mutating sound, the band re-formed in 2004 for a much more productive second act. They performed and recorded often, releasing multiple albums like 2020's Four Against Fate, while revisiting earlier music with the 2021 reissue of their 1982 debut, Pigs on Purpose.
The Nightingales were formed out of the ashes of early U.K. punk band the Prefects, who had been best known as the support act on the Clash's White Riot Tour in 1977. When the Prefects split up in 1979, four of the band's members regrouped as the Nightingales, centering around vocalist and bandleader Robert Lloyd. He would go on to be the only consistent member of the group as lineups shifted over the years, but the initial version consisted of Lloyd on vocals, drummer Paul Apperley, guitarist Joe Crow, and bassist Eamonn Duffy. They were ably championed by BBC Radio 1 disc jockey John Peel and released their debut single, "Idiot Strength," in 1981 on the band's own Vindaloo label in association with Rough Trade Records. The group shifted lineups before recording their debut full-length, Pigs on Purpose, and they signed to Cherry Red Records for its 1982 release. Second album Hysterics followed in 1983, and third LP In the Good Old Country Way came after it in 1986, each with different personnel. By 1986, Lloyd dissolved the Nightingales to focus on work as a songwriter, producer, label manager, and solo artist.
The Nightingales re-formed in 2004 and released four 7" singles as well as playing several select concert dates. In 2006, they released Out of True, their fourth full-length effort and first in 20 years. From that point forward, the band were more active than before, releasing new material steadily with albums like 2008's Insult to Injury and 2012's No Love Lost. They performed often and lineups still shifted around Lloyd, but the Nightingales released new music throughout the 2010s and into the 2020s, kicking off the new decade with 2020's Four Against Fate and a 2021 reissue of their debut album Pigs on Purpose, extended to include early singles and unreleased demos.
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Pigs on Purpose
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Call Of The Void am 01.01.1982
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Ten Bob Each Way / Use Your Loaf
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Fire Records am 16.04.2021
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In the Good Old Country Way
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Caroline True Records am 05.05.1986
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Hysterics
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Call Of The Void am 01.01.1983
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Out of True
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Call Of The Void am 02.10.2006
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For Fuck's Sake
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Call Of The Void am 09.04.2014
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Perish The Thought
Punk – New Wave - Erschienen bei Tiny Global Productions am 05.10.2018
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What's Not To Love?
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Caroline True Records am 30.04.2007
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King Rocker (Soundtrack)
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Fire Records am 18.03.2022
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Commercial Suicide Man
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Tiny Global Productions am 01.06.2018
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Real Gone Daddy
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Cooking Vinyl am 14.10.2012
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Let's Think About Living
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Fake Product am 19.06.2006
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In the Good Old Country Way (Expanded Edition)
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Call Of The Void am 05.05.1986
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Sentimental Hospital
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei 9pm am 09.03.2007
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In the Good Old Country Way
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Call Of The Void am 05.05.1986
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Sentimental Hospital
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei tug Records am 09.03.2007
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Cartoon of a Band
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei 9pm am 22.08.2008
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Becoming Not Becoming
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Tiny Global Productions am 27.01.2017
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Je Moeder Is De Allerliefste
Pop - Erschienen bei AKM am 03.01.1985
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