Pink Industry were a post-punk

Post-punk

Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

 band from Liverpool

Liverpool

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 formed by Jayne Casey

Jayne Casey

Jayne Casey is an artistic director who was known for being involved in the Liverpool punk and new wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s, with Big in Japan, Pink Military and Pink Industry.-Big In Japan:...

 after her previous band Pink Military

Pink Military

Pink Military were a post-punk band from Liverpool. Led by former Big in Japan singer Jayne Casey, other band members included former Deaf School drummer Tim Whitaker, guitarist Martin Dempsey who also played in Yachts and It's Immaterial and drummers Chris Joyce and Budgie Pink Military...

 split up in 1981.

History

When Pink Military split up in 1981, singer Jayne Casey

Jayne Casey

Jayne Casey is an artistic director who was known for being involved in the Liverpool punk and new wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s, with Big in Japan, Pink Military and Pink Industry.-Big In Japan:...

 formed the more electronically oriented band Pink Industry along with Ambrose Reynolds

Ambrose Reynolds

-Early years:Began making music as a chorister at Liverpool Cathedral at the age of 7. A few years later, teaming up with David Knopov in a street busking band called The O'Boogie Brothers. The O'Boogie Brothers expanded its membership to include an Ian Broudie on Guitar and Nathan McGough...

 (who had played with Casey in Big in Japan

Big in Japan

Big in Japan was a punk band that emerged from Liverpool, England in the late 1970s. They are better known for the later successes of their band members than for their own music...

 in the 1970s, and was an early member of Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

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), the duo initially using several other musicians, later becoming a trio with the addition of Tadzio Jodlowski. The band's sound was described by Trouser Press

Trouser Press

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as "like Siouxsie Sioux

Siouxsie Sioux

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 fronting Japan

Japan (band)

Japan were a British New Wave group, formed in 1974 in Catford, South London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement .- History :The band began as a group of friends...

". The band's first release was the Forty-Five EP

Extended play

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 featuring lead track "Is This The End?", released in February 1982. The band's debut album, Low Technology, was released the following year, reaching number 12 on the UK Independent Chart. A second album, Who Told You You Were Naked, followed later the same year, and peaked at number nine on the Indie chart. Between 1982 and 1984, the band recorded four sessions for John Peel

John Peel

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's BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

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 show. After a two-year gap since their previous release, the band returned in 1985 with the New Beginnings album. A final single was released in late 1987, the band splitting up around the same time. Casey subsequently concentrated on a television career.

Albums

• Low Technology (1983), Zulu - UK Indie #12
• Who Told You You Were Naked? (1983), Zulu - UK Indie #9
• New Beginnings (1985), Zulu

Compilations:

• Pink Industry (1987), Cathexis
• Retrospective (1989), Parade Amoureuse
• New Naked Technology (1995), Audioglobe
• Low Technology-Foryt Five (2008),Isegrimm Records
• New Naked Technology 2010 Remasters (2010), Wave

Singles, EPs

• Forty-Five EP (1982), Zulu
• "What Wouldn't I Give" (1985), Zulu - UK Indie #9
• "Don't Let Go" (1987), Cathexis - UK Indie #45