(c’78-’86) Stephen Hudson (?), Kevin Pink (Sax), Martin Blondell (vocals), Ian Everett (bass) and ?
In ’79, Phoney American Accents rocked up at Bisstock (Bisley Music Festival) and along with Squire entertained a somewhat limited crowd. Playing a punky, musically intense, rawer, heavier sibling to psychedelic rock, the band saw the likes of The Stooges, MC5, Pink Fairies, and the Sex Pistols as influences and performed at squats, free festivals and anywhere that would have them.
Hudson left the band in ’79, and Blondell in ’85. On 18 July ’86 the band headlined The Crypt, Deptford with Steel Bill & The Buffalos, and The Unknown Colours in support. Then, when The Crypt presented The Magic Mushroom Band and Ozric Tentacles at the Recreation Centre, Farnborough on 18 October ’86, it was Phoney American Accents and Steel Bill & The Buffalos who guested on this Stoned Out of Your Head Tour gig date. The following month, on 21 November ’86, they were back at The Crypt, Deptford with Steel Bill & The Buffalos and the next night joined Hondo, Voodoo Child, Steel Bill & The Buffalos, and Freaks of Science at Queen Mary College, London for another date on The Magic Mushroom Band and Ozric Tentacles ‘Stoned Out of Your Head Tour’. That same year the band appeared in Godalming at the Colony Club, that was within the Bridge Street squat.
In ’87 the band joined the likes of The Shamen, The Primitives, Blyth Power, and BMX Bandits when their track “Cage” was included by compiler Andy Hurt on the Rough Trade and Cartel distributed ‘Imminent 5‘ compilation LP on the Food label [Bite 5]. As a result “Cage” was added to the pre-recorded weekly weekend night program for the German part of the British Forces Broadcasting Service network by John Peel’s and broadcast on the 15 March ’87 show titled John Peel’s Music On BFBS. The next year, along with 2000 DS, the band appeared at a London squat in an old British Telecon building, called Bovay Place, in February ’88. Richard ?, the then bassist with Phoney American Accents, would later join DS 2000. They also graced the stage of the Rock Garden, Covent Garden in 1990.
As of 2012 the band were still producing and connected with Witchcraft Records and have appeared even more recently at Sound of the Suburbs, The Holroyd, Guildford in 2017 with Blondale, Pink, and Martin Smith on drum.
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