Shoes For Industry

Shoes for Industry were a post punk band formed in Bristol in 1979, originally consisting of:
*John Schofield (Drums)
*Steve Lonnen (Bass)
*Andy Leighton (Guitar)
*Steve Franklin (Keyboards)
*Paul B. Davies (Vocals, Saxophone)
Th ebbed released a couple of singles and an album between 1979 and 1980.
==Links to Peel==
Peel first played the band's material in the spring of 1979 via their debut single, 'Falling In Love Again'. He would mention on his 24 May 1979 show, that the back of their debut single had names of what they listed before choosing the name, 'Shoes For Industry'. The group later did a session for Peel's programme in September 1979.
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: 1979-09-10. First Broadcast: 25 September 1979. Repeated: 08 November 1979
*Devil Dogs / War Of The Potatoes / Shell Shock / Fear Of Wages
==Other Shows Played==
;1979
*24 May 1979: Falling In Love Again (7") Fried Egg (JP: 'Well, that should have got the teeming millions guessing... Before they decided on a name for the band, according to the back of the sleeve the record comes in, they drew up a list of possibilities, which included such things as Suck My Head, Destiny Frogs, Nancy Sinatra, 40 Bouncing Belgians, The Magic Bastards, Spend Spend Spend, Grown Men Wept, Tommy Atkins And The Fallen Millions, and Blood-Soaked Brian And His Gay Gyppos (laughs), and eventually settled for Shoes For Industry, perhaps rather wisely. That's on Fried Egg Records, from Montpelier, Bristol, and yes, it's actually got one of those awful simulated fried eggs stuck onto the back of the sleeve: nauseating to the touch, and even more unpleasant to the eye. I shall probably play that again, if only so I can talk about the sleeve.')
*04 June 1979: Falling In Love Again (7") Fried Egg (JP: "That was roundly lambasted by the critics: 'decadent, strutting elitist pimps', or some such well-rounded phrase. Of course, that sort of thing makes me warm to the band anyway, particularly as I'd rather like to be a strutting decadent elitist pimp mesself.")
;1980
*31 March 1980: Spend (7”) Fried Egg
*01 April 1980: Sheep Dog Trials In A Babylon (7" b-side Spend) Fried Egg
*10 April 1980 (BFBS): Spend (7") Fried Egg 
*17 April 1980: Spend (7") Fried Egg
*01 May 1980: Spend (7”) Fried Egg
*15 September 1980: Invasion Of The French Boyfriends (LP - Talk Like A Whelk) Fried Egg
==External Links==
*Bristol Archive Records
*Discogs
Category:Artists