F.U.2

From the liner notes of Punk Rock, 2012 Reissue of the Album originally release in 1977. F.U.2 - The Myth and the Legend by Terry Clemson aka Terry Gibson "F.U.2, the album, has for many years been the subject of much speculation. Some refer to it as the "Secret Downliners Sect Album". It really never was........ Many theories and stories of how it came about have circulated over the years... How it actually came about was thanks to a record producer friend of mine, Eddie Bourne. Eddie was asked to produce a Punk album, by a band called The Vacants. At the time Eddie felt the band needed augmenting for recording purposes, so he asked me to play guitar on the session... Following on the back of the relative success of The Vacants album, I persuaded Eddie to allow me to record a Punk album under the name F.U.2. It all started out as a bit of a joke really. It was late 1970's that me and Keith Grant (2), of the Downliners Sect, set about to write the songs. Some of these we already had in the can that we thought would fit the bill, like "Out Of School", "Playin' My Guitar" which incidentally were later to appear on the Sects 'Showbiz' album. It wasn't long before ten other songs had been assembled and were ready to take into the studio. As a band F.U.2 obviously never existed, so Keith and I enlisted musician friends to play on the session. Paul Holm was on drums, Robin Langridge on keyboards. Don Craine on rhythm guitar and Paul Tiller on blues harp were also co-opted to play on a couple of tracks. The only reason we co-opted Don and Paul Tiller into the session wasn't to make it a "secret Sect album" but merely to give them a few pounds in session money. ...The whole album was recorded and mixed in a day". Art Less (Arthur Keith Evans / Keith Grant) - bass, lead vocals Terry Deville (Terry Clemson / Terry Gibson) - lead guitar, vocals Rob Groan (Robin Langridge) - keyboards Clay Stone (Paul Holm) - drums Special Guests Mad Mick (Michael O'Donnell / Don Craine) - rhythm guitar Paul Tone (Paul Tiller) - harmonica