- Downliners Sect
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Downliners Sect Origin Twickenham, London, England Genres british rhythm and blues Years active 1963 - 1968
1977 - ????Labels EMI Columbia Members - The Downliners Sect were a British rhythm and blues band of the beat boom era, formed in 1963 when the existing Downliners band split up.
Stylistically, they were similar to The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things and the Rolling Stones, playing basic R&B on their first album The Sect. Critic Richie Unterberger wrote: "The Sect didn't as much interpret the sound of Chess Records as attack it, with a finesse that made the Pretty Things seem positively suave in comparison."[1]
They subsequently modified their musical style, and after an EP of 'sick' songs (e.g. "I Want My Baby Back") they experimented with both country ("The Country Sect") and rock ("Rock Sect's In"). They later collaborated with Billy Childish's Thee Headcoats, and released two albums under the name Thee Headcoats Sect.
Contents
Band members
- Don Craine (born Michael John O'Donnell, 29.3.1945, at Chiswick Maternity Hospital, Hounslow, Middlesex) - guitar, vocals, tambourine, maracas, autoharp
- Keith Grant (born Arthur Keith Evans, 26.3.1946, in Farnworth, Lancashire) - bass, vocals
- Johnny Sutton (born John Sutton, in 1945) - drums
- Terry Gibson (born Terence Frederick Clemsom, 7.2.1947, at the Mayday Hospital, Croydon, Surrey) - guitar (replaced the short-lived original guitarist Melvin)
- Ray Sone - harmonica (joined in 1964, beating Rod Stewart and Steve Marriott)
- Pip Harvey - harmonica (replaced Sone in 1965, left in 1966 because he was wanted by the police!)
- Zach Wilson - guitar (replaced by Craine)
Discography
Singles
- Jun '64 - Baby What's Wrong / Be A Sect Maniac (Columbia DB 7300)
- Sep '64 - Little Egypt / Sect Appeal (Columbia DB 7347)
- Nov '64 - Find Out What's Happening / Insecticide (Columbia DB 7415)
- ??? '65 - Wreck Of The Old '97 / Leader Of The Sect (Columbia DB 7509)
- Jun '65 - I Got Mine / Waiting In Heaven Somewhere (Columbia DB 7597)
- Oct '65 - Bad Storm Coming / Lonely And Blue (Columbia DB 7712)
- Jan '66 - All Night Worker / He Was A Square (Columbia DB 7817)
- Jun '66 - Glendora / I'll Find Out (Columbia DB 7939)
- Sep '66 - The Cost Of Living / Everything I've Got To Give (Columbia DB 8008)
7" E.P.s
- "Nite In Gt. Newport Street": Beautiful Delilah/Shame Shame Shame/Green Onions/Nursery Rhymes (Contrast RBCSP 001, 1964)
- "Brite Lites": Bright Lights Big City/I need you baby(mona)/Do the Dog/Roll Over Beethoven (Contrast RBCSP 002, 1964) :Unreleased, finished sleeves exist. Tapes lost in 1964, released in March 2011.
- "The Sect Sing Sick Songs" - I Want My Baby Back/Leader of the Sect/Midnight Hour/Now She's Dead (Columbia SEG 8438, 1965)
L.P.s
The Sect (1964)
The Sect 
Studio album by Downliner's Sect Released 1964 Genre Rock, R&B Label Columbia Records - Hurt By Love
- One Ugly Child
- Lonely And Blue
- Our Little Rendezvous
- Guitar Boogie
- Too Much Monkey Business
- Sect Appeal
- Baby What's On Your Mind?
- Cops And Robbers
- Easy Rider
- Bloodhound
- Bright Lights
- I Wanna Put A Tiger In Your Tank
- Be A Sect Maniac
Columbia 33SX 1658
The Country Sect (1965)
The Country Sect 
Studio album by Downliners Sect Released 1965 Genre Rock, R&B, Country Label Columbia Records - If I Could Just Go Back
- Rocks In My Bed
- Ballad Of The Hounds
- Little Play Soldiers
- Hard Travellin'
- Wait For The Light To Shine
- I Got Mine
- Waiting In Heaven
- Above And Beyond
- Bad Storm Coming
- Midnight Special
- Wolverton Mountain
Columbia 33SX 1745
The Rock Sect's In (1966)
The Rock Sect's In 
Studio album by Downliners Sect Released 1966 Genre Rock, R&B Label Columbia Records - Hang on Sloopy
- Fortune Teller
- Hey Hey Hey Hey
- Everything I've Got To Give
- Outside
- I'm Hooked On You
- Don't Lie To Me
- May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
- He Was A Square
- I'm Looking For A Woman
- Rock Sect's In Again
- Brand New Cadillac
Columbia 33SX 6028
The Definitive Downliners Sect: Singles - A's & B's (1994)
Definitive Downliners Sect 
Compilation album by Downliners Sect Released 1994 Genre Rock, R&B Label See For Miles - Cadillac
- Roll Over Beethoven
- Beautiful Delilah
- Shame, Shame, Shame
- Green Onions
- Nursery Rhymes
- Baby What's Wrong
- Be A Sect Maniac
- Little Egypt
- Sect Appeal
- Find Out What's Happening
- Insecticide
- Wreck Of The Old '97
- Leader Of The Sect
- I Want My Baby Back
- Midnight Hour
- Now She's Dead
- I Got Mine
- Waiting In Heaven Somewhere
- Bad Storm Coming
- Lonely And Blue
- All Night Worker
- He Was A Square
- Glendora
- I'll Find Out
- Cost Of Living
- Everything I've Got To Give
- I Can't Get Away From You
- Roses
See For Miles SEECD398
References
External links
- http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/yardbird_sect/downliners_sect.html - includes discography
- http://web.archive.org/web/20091029033233/http://geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Villa/9500/downliners.htm
- http://www.makingtime.co.uk/downliners.html
- http://www.handofglory.co.uk/downliners-sect-brite-lights-ep-coming-soon/ - blog post on the lost EP with details of the rediscovery.
Categories:- Musical groups established in 1963
- English rock music groups
- Musical groups from London
- Beat groups
- Columbia Records artists
- British rhythm and blues boom musicians
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