Silverfish (band)
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Silverfish were a UK-based indie rock band, which formed in the late 1980s, and first performed in Camden in 1988. The band split up in 1993.
Their female lead singer was Scottish-born Leslie Rankine. The band had a high octane, indie punk metal sound that was set alight by Rankine's distinctive vocals and strongly feminist views. Famous lyrics "Hips, Tits, Lips, Power" adorned a popular T-shirt of the time and were inspirational to the proto-Riot Grrrl movement.
The other members of the band were; guitarist Andrew "Fuzz" Duprey; bassist Chris Powforth; and drummer Stuart Watson. Founding member Fuzz was a regular "face" at London indie gigs of the time, and is now a regular DJ at the Dublin Castle pub in Camden Town, London. The band stood out from many of their scene-contemporaries with a lineup that was mixed in terms of both gender and ethnicity and a setlist that was more liberally strewn with expletives than that of anyone else.
The band's 1980s EPs were collected together into their 1990 compilation album, Cockeye. The following year, they released their debut album, Fat Axl, and toured with the band Pigface. In 1992, the group gained wider acclaim with their second album, Organ Fan and supported the band 7 Year Bitch. During the broadcast of a Peel session, BBC Radio1 DJ John Peel summed up their level of success: "If they were from New York, we'd be mad for them of course."
When the band split up in 1993, Rankine moved to Seattle and formed the band Ruby with Mark Walk.
