Antisect

Antisect
Background information
Origin	Daventry, Northamptonshire, England
Genres	Anarcho-punk, hardcore-punk crust punk, metal
Years active	1982–1987, 2011-present
Labels	Spiderleg / Southern Records
Website	Official website
Members
Pete Lyons Joe Burwood Pete Boyce Laurence Windle Tim Andrews
Past members
Pete Paluskiewicz Renusze Rokicki Tom Lowe Rich Hill Caroline Wallis John Bryson

Antisect are an English, Rock band, formed in 1982 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, UK. Their debut album, In Darkness There is No Choice, was released in 1983.

Antisect were a signal band in the timeline of hardcore punk music: Their influence has been indelible upon "black-clad, politically-charged punks over the last 30 years".

The band were instrumental in bringing the subject matter of "animal rights" and "social conscience" to a punk rock audience and were among the instigators of the squat venue scene in the mid to late 1980s. Members lived the lifestyle of being either on the road or part of the vibrant London squat scene of the time. They toured extensively both in the UK and europe, before finally splitting in 1987.

Career

In Darkness There is No Choice, was released in 1983 on Flux Of Pink Indians' Spiderleg Records label, reached number 4 in the UK Indie Chart and is now widely considered to be a "classic" of it's genre. This was followed in 1985 by the release of the 7" single, Out from the Void, which reached number 2 in the Indie singles chart and, along with Amebix's 1985 Arise! album, is considered the starting point of the crust punk genre.^{[citation needed]}

The band had recorded most of the material for a second album (provisionally entitled Welcome to the New Dark Ages), but it was never completed. Darker and heavier than their debut, some tracks that were going to be on this album have appeared in fledgling form on the live album Peace is Better Than a Place in History, and the 2010 release Leeds 2.4.86.

Post-breakup, 1987–2010

Pete Lyons is now a music producer/recording engineer, owner of Zed One Studios in London, and contributes a chapter to Ian Glasper's book The Day The Country Died, which chronicles the anarcho-punk scene of the time.

Reformation, 2011-present

Antisect posted May 11 2011 on their official website that the band had reunited "after 24 years..."[1] The following day the band announced the present line-up and the first show at the Puntala-Rock Festival in Finland. Tour dates for the UK, Europe and US were announced for late 2011 and Spring 2012. In December 2011 the band returned to the studio to record a new 10" single, containing the previously unreleased 1982 track "4 Minutes Past Midnight" and a re-recorded version of 1985's "Out From The Void (Part 2.) This, however is a "Tour Only" release, available exclusively at the forthcoming shows.

Finland 2011

Membership

Founding members

• Pete Lyons - guitar
• Pete Paluskiewicz - drums
• Renusze Rokicki - bass
• Pete Boyce - vocals

'In Darkness...' members

• Pete Lyons - guitar
• Pete Paluskiewicz - drums
• Renusze Rokicki - bass
• Pete Boyce - vocals
• Rich Hill - vocals
• Caroline Wallis - vocals

In Darkness Tour 1984

'Out From The Void' members

• John Bryson - bass/vocals
• Pete Lyons - guitar/vocals
• Pete Paluskiewicz - drums

Out From The Void Tour 1985

1987 break-up line-up

• Pete Lyons - guitar
• Pete Paluskiewicz - drums
• Laurence Windle - bass
• Tim Andrews - vocals

2011/12 line-up

• Pete Boyce - vocals
• Tim Andrews - vocals
• Pete Lyons - guitar
• Laurence Windle - bass
• Joe Burwood - drums

Discography

• In Darkness There is No Choice - LP, 1983
• Out from the Void - EP, 1985
• Hallo There How's Life - Live Album, 1991
• Peace is Better Than a Place in History - Live Album, 1993
• Leeds 02.04.86 - Live Album, 2010
• 4 Minutes Past Midnight/Out From The Void (Part 2) - Tour 10", 2011