The Resisters
The Resisters were formed in North London in 1977 by three friends who worked for a Press workers collective running a newspaper from offices near Newington Green. They existed for about four or five years – doing masses of gigs on the left-wing kind of circuit whilst touring in an old Ambulance. Appearances included Stonehenge, Rock Against Racism, Notting Hill Carnival, Squatters Rights etc. etc.
There were a few bands about the time with a left wing ‘angry’ agenda that coincided with punk like The Derelicts. Another band in this vein were The Resisters who featured our friend Susy Hogarth from The Innocents. She kindly provided the info of the band and pictures below.
“This was a band with a bona-fide pedigree as a political band. There was a North London Press/ workers collective that ran a newspaper out of offices near Newington Green and the first three guys who started the band all worked there. The line up was:
Dave Gwynne-Jones – guitar
Geoff Holland – vocals
Kim Parker – keyboards
Susy Barry (me – now Hogarth) – drums
Ilse Zambouial – bass
Pete Mullineau – guitar
I know everyone’s names because we did an album for Trikont – a Munich label and I’ve still got it. Recorded at Pathway in 1978.
The Resisters existed for about four or five years – doing masses of gigs – we did Stonehenge, Notting Hill carnival, Rock Against Racism, Squatters rights, Claimants Unions, Women’s rights, you name it we did it. We gigged with loads of different ‘rights’ bands. We did a tour of Germany in an old Ambulance – again on the left-wing kind of circuit. It was essentially angry punk! I played with them at the same time I was in The Innocents and as I got more into trouble with drugs – I left around 22 years ago – when my son was 4’ish.
For what it’s worth – it was a really important band at the time for its beliefs about workers rights, sexual rights, women’s rights etc., but I couldn’t find any mention of them on the web.”
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