“I didn't want to be in a sort of cosy place anymore, and I wanted to be somewhere that had some authenticity to it.'
“I didn't want to be in a sort of cosy place anymore, and I wanted to be somewhere that had some authenticity to it.was like a bomb site. The photographs of Leeds of that time are very similar to Coventry after the bombing. I mean, there were acres and acres of abandoned streets with houses due for demolition, holes in the road,” he adds.“Our rehearsal room was in this abandoned house in rows and rows of abandoned houses, so we could make as much noise as we liked.
King was the son of an electrician but got a scholarship to the Sevenoaks School in Kent, which he attended with future bandmate Gill, and Mark White, Tom Greenhalgh and Kevin Lycett, who went on to form The Mekons.Gang of Four in Leeds, 1981. From left: Dave Allen, Jon King, Hugo Burnham and Andy Gill. Credit: Adrian Boot.
King then lived in a Cromer Terrace flat near the campus with White and Andy Corrigan - another member of The Mekons - and Lycett took over the film society as they became “a very tight group of buddies doing stuff”.
Bands such as Delta 5, Scritti Politti and Soft Cell formed in that environment alongside Gang of Four, whose funk-leaning, Dr Feelgood-influenced post-punk contained subversive ideas inspired by the SI. Their 1979 debut album Entertainment! – with a line-up completed by Dave Allen on bass and drummer Hugo Burnham – has gone down as one of the most important of the era.“What I was trying to do was be interesting.
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