Sad Society formed in Edinburgh in the early 1980s from the ashes of several other bands who were playing the punk circuit at that time, and played their first gigs in 1984. From the start, their tuneful songs and Deek Wilson's sneering trad-punk-style vocals marked them out from the increasingly-derivative and talentless punk pack, and despite arriving too late to catch the original punk bandwagon, the band have continued to play the music they love as fashions and fads have come and gone. Still fronted by Deek Wilson, and with the solid rhythm section of Michael Laing and Andy McCombie and new guitarist Euan Ballantyne, Sad Society have a powerful, contemporary sound which is featured on their recently-recorded demos. The band's name was inspired by a headline in the Edinburgh Evening News many years ago, which read "We are living in a sad society". Since Sad Society's songs are about the realities of life in this horrible world of forced-conformity, violence, greed and hatred, which grinds people down and drives them to suicide, the headline struck a chord. We ARE living in a sad society!

Sad Society need gigs!

If you are a gig-promoter or you are organising a punks' picnic, festival or charity benefit gig and you'd like us to play, please contact us via this page, or e-mail Deek Wilson at: sadsociety82@hotmail.com .

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