The Depressions | ru

The Depressions are a UK punk rock band from 1977.

Originally a Who / Small Faces cover band from Brighton called Tonge. With the onset of punk they turned into the more punkier sounding The Depressions, secured a deal with Barn Records, got the Slade management and were tipped for big things. Straight off they got arrested for spraying their names and fined £150 each!

All of them had dyed blonde hair and the drummer wore an eye patch for some reason. (The Police later nicked this image minus the eye patch !)

Playing all the famous Punk clubs - The Vortex and Roxy - the boys aimed to capitalise on punk. Their releases perhaps helped to confuse: They just didn't sound punk. As The Depressions they released three singles and an album supported by a lot of PR coverage and advertisements in the music weeklies (did they only ever do one photo session as every publicity photo seems to have them in the same clothes and poses?) Disaster struck though on their tour with The Vibrators as they played Preston Poly. As they finished a fight broke out and someone died. The ensuing publicity virtually killed the band.

They released two singles "Living on Dreams" and the excellent "Messing with your heart" and on self titled album. .