The Satellites (Acton, UK)

An Alternative Gathering are delighted to bring the very excellent Vice Squad down to the Portobello Road Doors 7pm £10 OTD Vice Squad Vice Squad are a female fronted UK Punk Rock band that delivers short sharp songs with incisive lyrics spat out over a thunderous rhythm and machine gun Rock ’n’ Roll guitars. Renowned for their high energy live shows the band deliver their set with passion and humour and have been touring and releasing successful albums since the1980s. Their latest album ‘Cardboard Country’ was released on their own Last Rockers label in2014. The album was launched on the back of a very successful Pledge campaign raising funds for the Shelter homeless charity in line with the album title. Vice Squad is fronted by raucous voiced singer/guitarist Beki Bondage who was featured on the front cover of a number of influential music tabloids such as Melody Maker, NME, Sounds, Record Mirror and Smash Hits. The band is 100% DIY and has no record company or management backing. Since reforming Vice Squad in 1997 the band has released several albums with powerful punk songs that are very well received by fans and press. In keeping with the DIY ethic the albums were recorded in the front room of Beki’s South London flat. Electrics ★ Rock 'N' Roll Liberation Army ★ from West London playing New York Garage Punk. The Satellites Started in Acton, west London in 1977, 20 years to the day that Sputnik was launched.