Frightened \/ Smile \/ Evil Faces<\/a><\/p>\nNaked formed in Sheerness, Kent in early 1979, inspired by the first wave of punk bands. After a few months rehearsing their first gig in June ’79 was bizarrely in Holland. Over the next few years by many more gigs in Holland followed which became something of a home-from-home for the band.<\/p>\n
Their first demo recorded in 1979 had a definite 70s DIY punk feel, however their sound developed with time and in 1981 they recorded 10 songs that were released as a mail-order cassette titled ‘1981’. Things really started to take off once Crass asked for one of the tracks ‘Mid-1930s Pre-War Germany’ to be included on the compilation album ‘Bullshit Detector II’. The track was easily the album’s standout and a Sounds review said of it “smacks of self-motivated sincerity as opposed to the usual predictable conformity”.<\/p>\n
Gradually the band were becoming more politicised and soon became a part of the burgeoning ‘anarcho-punk’ scene. During 1983 they developed a friendship with The Subhumans and played numerous gigs with them. So in November 1983 Bluurg released the ‘One Step Forward’ 7″ which was a top 20 indie hit and stayed in the chart for 5 weeks. Another single was planned for Bluurg but for reasons now forgotten never happened.<\/p>\n
The band continued writing and gigging until early 1987 when long standing vocalist Tony left and was replaced by Paula. However, post-Tony it was never the same and the band finally stopped in September 1987.<\/p>\n
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After 18 months of bravely fighting an aggressive brain tumour Chris Counsell, original guitarist of Naked that performed on this EP, passed away on 8th September 2009 leaving a wife and two young sons.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Jonni M for the photograph of Chris\u00a0Counsell performing with Naked, text from Naked’s myspace site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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