THE MEMBRANES

WHAT NATURE GIVES… NATURE TAKES AWAY (Cherry Red, 2019)

DOM LAWSON

Forged amid the snotty fires of punk, The Membranes emerged from the mean streets of Blackpool in the late 70s. Part of a freewheeling post-punk movement that had precisely zero interest in the virtuoso excesses of progressive rock, they became one of the most celebrated underground bands of the 1980s. Adored by John Peel, they wrote songs with titles like Spike Milligan’s Tape Recorder and Postdetergent Vacuum Cleaner Man and sounded as scrappily DIY as can be. They were, one could argue, the very antithesis of everything that prog had become by that point. In 1985 The Membranes even released an EP entitled Death To Trad Rock. So definitely not prog, then. But time changes everything, of course. The Membranes originally split in 1990, but they reformed in 2009 at…

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