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Silverfish were a UK-based indie rock band, which formed in the late 1980s, and first performed in Camden in 1988. The band split up in 1993.
Their lead singer was Scottish-born Lesley Rankine. The band had a high octane, indie punk metal sound that was set alight by Rankine's distinctive vocals and strongly feminist views. Famous lyrics "Hips, Tits, Lips, Power" from the single "Big Bad Baby Pig Squeal" adorned a popular T-shirt of the time.
The other members of the band were; guitarist Andrew "Fuzz" Duprey; bassist Chris P Mowforth; and drummer Stuart Watson.
Silverfish were the main focus of the so-called Camden lurch scene, a term invented by the music press to describe the fact that many of the prominent indie bands (outside of the dominant alternative dance and shoegazing scenes) of the time resided in Camden, and that they lurched.
When the band split up in 1993, Rankine moved to Seattle and formed the band Ruby with Mark Walk.
Peel first played Silverfish in 1989 and when he broadcast their first repeated session on 05 December 1989, he mentioned "If they were from New York, we'd be mad for them of course". This was at a time, when the Madchester music scene was at its peak and British indie guitar bands who didn't conform to it, were largely ignored.
Peel interviewed members of Silverfish when they were appearing at the Reading Festival on his 25 August 1991 show and after the interview, played a track from their Fuckin' Driven' Or What...E.P., which for obvious reasons he didn't reveal the EP title.
