Drones

The Drones are an English punk rock band from Manchester, England. For a period of time, the band were in their early days produced and managed by Paul Morley.
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.
==Links to Peel==
Peel first played the group in 1977 and would have the band do a session recorded for his programme during that year. He would continue play the band's material until the early 80's.
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: 1977-12-06. First Broadcast: 13 December 1977. Repeated: 16 January 1978
*Be My Baby / The Change / Clique / Movement
==Other Shows Played==
;1977
*05 October 1977: Bone Idol (7" - Just Want To Be Myself / Bone Idol) Valer 
*03 November 1977: Bone Idol (album - Further Temptations) Valer 
*03 November 1977: Lookalikes (album - Further Temptations) Valer 
*03 November 1977: Be My Baby (album - Further Temptations) Valer 
*08 November 1977: Lookalikes (v/a album - Streets) Beggars Banquet 
*28 November 1977: Bone Idol (album - Further Temptations) Valer 
*28 November 1977: Movement (album - Further Temptations) Valer 
;1980
*27 May 1980: Can't See (7") Fabulous
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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