(c’77-80’s) Paul Trew (guitar/vocal), Martin Humphries (bass), Tim Huthert (drums), and Keith “Kipper” Ledgerwood (guitar).

Huthert had previously played with Out of Order and Alan “Spike” Rawlings’ Quintet, and along with Ledgerwood, who had also been in Oddsox, they had both been in The Vandals. Meanwhile, Humphries had been in the Nobodies; while in parallel to The Torpedoes, Trew and Huthert were also in The Desotos.

This Farnborough band performed Lou Reed, The Who, The Small Faces and other covers, appearing at the Wokingham Rock Club, and Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley. On 5 February ’80, The Torpedoes supported The Mode at The Tumbledown Dick, Farnborough and a couple of months later appeared at the Technical College, Farnborough in support of The Vulgar Bros. They also joined other local bands: Vixen, Lynx, The Vulgar Bros., Human Beings, Blue Unction, Roosta Boots, Larry Miller Band, Animal, and Magic Pictures to play the Stonehenge Festival in 1980. 

Huthert went on to play with Thane and Specimen. Trew also joined Thane, White as White (and Twice as Dirty), and The Vulgar Bros. Both turned up in The Virgin Daze.

Gallery:

5 February 1980: The Torpedoes supported The Mode at Tumbledown Dick, Farnborough. Picture courtesy of Paul Trew
5 February 1980: The Mode were supported by The Torpedoes, at the Tumbledown Dick, Farnborough.
18 April 1980: The Torpedoes and Vulgar Bros played Farnborough Tech. Picture courtesy of Paul Trew