music friday: sector 27
Friday, January 17, 2025
Tom Robinson was a big deal in the punk era with The Tom Robinson Band. His next group was called Sector 27. They released an album in late 1980, and it was a good one, although it didn't get much chart attention. Robinson later left the band, and they never made another album. We saw them in January of 1981. I liked the show because Robinson was engaging ... I had gotten to meet him and TRB at a club date at one point ... but he had laryngitis that night, so it was a bit disappointing. The rest of the band looked very young. Bass player Jo Burt was Robinson's principal collaborator, but I mostly noticed guitar player Stevie B. Danny Kustow was the lead guitarist for TRB, and I was much enamored with his playing. He was fairly traditional in the rock tradition. Stevie B was jagged, not out of place in the music of 1980.
Here is Sector 27 with "Where Can We Go Tonight?":
And "Not Ready":
And a taste of Danny Kustow, who died in 2019:
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