Nightingales • Cambridge Junction

Name: Nightingales • Cambridge Junction
Start: 2025-05-29T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Cambridge Leisure park, Clifton Way, CB1 7GX Cambridge, United Kingdom

Schedule

Thu, 29 May, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Cambridge Leisure park, Clifton Way, CB1 7GX Cambridge, United Kingdom | Cambridge, EN

Nightingales are a British post-punk/alternative rock band, formed in 1979.
Formed by four members of Birmingham’s punk group The Prefects. They had been part of The Clash’s ‘White Riot Tour’, recorded a couple of Peel Sessions, released a 45 on Rough Trade and, years after splitting up, had a retrospective CD released by US indie label Acute Records.
Described in John Robb’s book on ‘post punk’ Death To Trad Rock as “The misfits’ misfits” and comprising an ever-fluctuating line up, based around lyricist/singer Robert Lloyd, the Nightingales enjoyed cult status in the early 1980s as darlings of the credible music scene and were championed by John Peel, who said of them – “Their performances will serve to confirm their excellence when we are far enough distanced from the 1980s to look at the period rationally and other, infinitely better known, bands stand revealed as charlatans”.