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Artist
The Wait
12+ albums
new wavepost-punkfemale vocalists80sGothic Rock
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1) The story of UK post-punk The Wait goes back to 1981, when schoolfriends, Hamish Champ and Andy Linden picked up guitars and decided to form a band. Teaching themselves to play, they invited various personnel to join them, including Simon Matthews on guitar and Duncan Clayton (drums). This line up went by the name of The Trees, but Simon soon got bored and Kevin Tweedy joined on Keyboards in Sep 1982. The name was changed to The Wait after the songs by Killing Joke and The Pretenders. Hamish and Andy shared the vocals, and they were finally ready to play the first gig in Feb 1983. After the first 5 gigs, Dawn Kelly was recruited as lead singer, but was sacked 3 gigs later because she was a bit of a wally (!). Jeanette Purcell was invited to join in her place. Simon Pannell offered to be manager and stayed as the sixth member until 1988. The band were soon getting good reviews, and, in summer 1983 won the local Tramshed Talent contest. (With a little help from a friend). This period of the Wait's career culminated in an excellent gig review, and full page interview in Sounds - the first in a national newspaper. All was not well though, and in June 1984 the band parted company with Kevin. The chance to play an open air gig in Lewisham supporting Darts was not to be missed, so Angling was rushed in to play it on keyboards. In October 1984, Pat Bristow joined The Wait on guitar and a change in direction was taken, with a slightly harder, less pop, sound. The gigs continued
