Liggers

The Liggers were a Manchester punk band consisting of Patti Owens (keyboards, vocals), Gina Sobers (bass, keyboards), Donna Sullivan (bass, keyboards), Neil Anderson (guitar, drums) and Andrew (guitar). The group released several tracks on various artists compilation albums in 1980, before splitting up.
==Links to Peel==
thumb|220px|The band are interviewed and filmed going to Maida Vale to record the session from 1:33 of the video
Peel discovered the group in late 1980 via the compilation album, Unzipping The Abstract (Bands Of The Manchester Musicians' Collective). Impressed by their material, he got the band to do a session for his show, where they were filmed going to Maida Vale to record it via the BBC2 TV documentary programme, Arena: Today Carshalton Beeches ... Tomorrow, Croydon, which was first broadcast on 31st January 1981.
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: 1980-09-30. First Broadcast: 20 October 1980. Repeated: 18 November 1980
*Pretty Girls / Me And Mary Jane / Dreams Die First
==Other Shows Played==
;1980
*08 September 1980: Pretty Girl (LP – Unzipping The Abstract (Bands Of The Manchester Musicians Collective)) MMC
*22 September 1980: Pretty Girl (v/a album - Unzipping The Abstract (Bands Of The Manchester Musicians Collective)) MMC
*11 November 1980: Deathwish (7" - The Potent Human E. P.) L'Aventure
;1981
*18 January 1981 (BFBS): Deathwish (v/a 7" - The Potent Human E. P.) L'Aventure
;1982
*01 September 1982 (BFBS): Pretty Girl (v/a album - Unzipping The Abstract (Bands Of The Manchester Musicians' Collective)) MMC
;1983
*03 December 1983 (BFBS): Pretty Girl (v/a album - Unzipping The Abstract (Bands Of The Manchester Musicians' Collective)) MMC
==External Links==
*Discogs
Category:Artists