Pool Of Sound - Pink Military

Jayne Casey - Pink Military

After 'Big In Japan' split up in the summer of 1978, singer Jayne Casey formed 'Pink Military Stand Alone', along with John Highway on guitar, Wayne Wadden on bass guitar, Paul Hornby on drums and Nicky Cool (born Nicky Hillon) on keyboards. The band mixed punk-influenced rock with elements of disco and reggae. Their first release was the 'Buddha Walking' single in February 1979. This was the only release from the original line-up, as in the months that followed, Wadden, Hornby and Highway all left, with Peter Lloyd, Steve Torch, Tim Whitaker (ex-Deaf School), and Martin Dempsey (formerly of Yachts) making up the next settled line-up now called 'Pink Military'.
The band focused on dance rhythms under a somewhat thrashy and hypnotic post-punk aesthetic.
They were then picked up by the 'Eric's' label (associated with the club of the same name), with the 'Blood and Lipstick' EP released in September 1979.

 Further line-up changes followed, with Whitaker and Torch replaced by 'Mothmen' drummer Chris Joyce, Charlie Gruff (Charlie Griffiths), and Neil Innes. John Peel gave the band his support and they recorded two sessions for his BBC Radio 1 show, the first in November 1979 featuring Budgie on drums, and the second in May 1980.

The band's only album 'Do Animals Believe In God?' was released in June 1980, distributed by Virgin records, after the band had signed a deal with them. A further single was released the next month, and proved to be the final release before the band split up in 1981. Jayne has since confessed that "Pink Military was a bit of a dry period really. At the beginning of 'Pink Military', it was just like I wanted to do something that everyone would hate, because I'd had so much hassle for years. I wanted to do something that was so uncool. It was quite a difficult time, because the whole music scene was very rock-oriented, and the technology hadn't moved at that point to easily encompass what you were doing on a street level, so it was dead difficult. It was the hardest time I ever had you know."
Martin Dempsey joined 'Immaterial' and later the 'Mel-o-Tones', while Chris Joyce joined 'The Durutti Column' and later played with 'Simply Red'. Jayne, with Ambrose Reynolds who had been with her in 'Big In Japan', went on to form 'Pink Industry' which was much more of a minimal electro project but for Jayne got a bit closer to the mark, but again the technology wasn’t there. It was nearer because they had got rid of all the rock elements by then. They were quite successful in Europe but with her child growing up and being tired of touring Jayne became bored with that lifestyle and the band ended.
Jayne Casey was co-founder of the hugely successful nightclub empire Cream in the 1990s.

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