The Drones

The Drones may refer to:

The Drones (Australian band)

The Drones are an Australian band that rose to prominence in Australia when in 2005 their album, Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By, won the inaugural Australian Music Prize. The band consists of vocalist/guitarist Gareth Liddiard, bassist Fiona Kitschin, lead guitarist Dan Luscombe, keyboardist Steve Hesketh and drummer Christian Strybosch.

Biography

Biography (1997-2013)

The Drones (English band)

The Drones are a punk rock band from Manchester, England. For a period of time, the band were in their early days produced and managed by Paul Morley.

One critic wrote: "Bonafide DIY three-chord wonders, the Drones were there at punk’s inception."

Career

Formed in Manchester in 1975, the band started out as a pub rock outfit called Rockslide and released a single called "Roller Coaster". When this failed to make an impact, they reinvented themselves as a punk rock band.

In 1976, The Drones made their debut at the Houldsworth Hall, Manchester with Generation X as support.

Most bands in the thriving Manchester punk scene stayed in the city, but The Drones relocated to London. They became one of the pioneering punk bands that performed in the first few months of the now-legendary Roxy Club. They supported The Vibrators in January 1977, headlined in February, and supported X-Ray Spex and Chelsea in March. Later that year they supported The Stranglers on tour. The band appeared on two influential early punk compilation albums Streets and Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus.