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The group was formed when Revell (aka Operator, Oblivion, EMS AKS) met up with Neil Hill (aka Ne/H/il). They were both working at a psychiatric hospital when they became inspired by the manifesto of the German radical Marxist group known as the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (SPK). The band also recruited two teenagers, David Virgin and Danny Rumour, who helped create the first recordings of SPK in 1979. The following words, inspired by the SPK manifesto, are used on one of the band's first recordings, Slogun (1979): "Kill, Kill, Kill for inner peace/ Bomb, Bomb, Bomb for mental health/ Therapy through violence!" Dominik Guerin (aka Tone Generator) joined in 1980, and was later to concentrate on the band's notorious visual content. Guerin and Revell recorded the first album, Information Overload Unit (1981), in a Vauxhall squat (during the Brixton riots in London) with the help of Revell's brother Ash (aka Mr.Clean) and Wilkins (guitar/bass). After the recording of SPK's second album, Leichenschrei ("The Scream of the Corpse")(1982), they were joined by Sinan Leong, who had initially auditioned for a planned SPK side-project, Dance Macabre. She and Revell were later to marry. In the first week of February 1984, just short of his 28th birthday, Neil Hill committed suicide two days before his wife Margaret Nikitenko died as a result of complications from anorexia.
Other musicians working with SPK included Danny Rumour and David Virgin of Sekret Sekret, who were on the band's first recordings that were done in 1979, James Pinker and Karel van Bergan, who toured the U.S. in 1982 with Guerin and Revell, Brian Williams of Lustmord, John Murphy of Forresta di Ferro (better known as Kraang) and Derek Thompson, who later had a brief stint in The Cure and went on to record as Hoodlum Priest. Thompson claims that he left SPK when founder member Revell wanted to take the band in what Thompson perceived as a more commercial direction.
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SPKcentral commented on Commando 1985 Part 6 (HD)
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SPKcentral commented on Commando 1985 Part 6 (HD)
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eyot08
(1 month ago)
Great!!
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marcoyoga
(4 months ago)
Thank you so much for the uploads !!
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nirvanaispus
(5 months ago)
SPK is one of the world's all time great bands / artists - certainly the most varied I've ever heard and I've heard at least 100,000 CD's and have seen perhaps at least 70,000 videos right here on youtube since I first joined. From being insanely sick and demented, to 80's blistering techno dance with metallic noises and bangs that were way ahead of their time, to Byzantine, to politically correct masterpiece songs like "Kambuja" (of which I thank the host of this channel for posting 2 versions of it - one of which I didn't know existed and has a devastating video to boot) and also beautifully woven atmospheric songs with metallic sounds that are undeniably bleak.
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Darkovith
(5 months ago)
i like SPK
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