the PHOTOS hope someone can help me -I saw a band in around 78 in Cambridge corn exchange called the PHOTOS?

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they were so good-I think the opened for the Undertones or SLF- I want to find their music on CD but no luck- I now live in USA and NO-ONE has heard of this band- they have a song called "maxine"-I know they made one-self titled lp-can't even find it on ebay-if anyone can help email me at [e-mail]
thanx & god bless Sir Bob geldof-my hero

I saw them in Cambridge ENGLAND & I have remembered that they were from Sheffield- it was PENETRATION they opened up for- hope this helps

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Well, not sure I still have any of their product - I think they did a single called 'Barbarella's' which I owned for a long time. They weren't from Sheffield, but from Evesham in Worcestershire, and therefore appeared mostly around the Birmingham circuit. They were originally called 'Satan's Rats' and were an out and out punk band, then they recruited female vocalist Wendy Wu, made one album with legendary producer Tony Visconti and that, to be honest, was that. I think the track you refer to was actually called 'Irene' and it was their biggest hit - storming its way to no 56 in the UK singles chart (but then, it was really really hard to chart in those days as punk led to the handing out of a LOT of record contracts). The LP came with a free EP, abnd actually charted much higher than the single as, if I remember rightly, there was a mail-in offer to purchasers of the album which gave them a free camera.
Drop me a line on [e-mail] and I'll keep and eye out round the second hand record shops and charity shops for any of their stuff and will look through my singles collection and see if I still own Barbarellas....