The Armoury Show

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Name = The Armoury Show


Img_capt = From left to right: John Doyle, Russell Webb, Richard Jobson and John McGeoch
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Origin = United Kingdom
Genre = New Wave
Post-punk
Years_active = 1983 – 1988
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Associated_acts = The Skids, Magazine, Slik, The Zones, Public Image Ltd.
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Past_members = Richard Jobson John McGeoch Russell Webb John Doyle Dave Lockwood Ray Weston

The Armoury Show was a band of the 1980s. The band was named after the Armory Show, a famous 1913 modern art exhibition in New York. They released only one album, "Waiting for the Floods", in their brief existence.

Previously Richard Jobson and Russell Webb were both members of the band The Skids, while John McGeoch and John Doyle had both been in Magazine, with McGeoch also appearing in Siouxsie & the Banshees and collaborating for The Skids in a Peel Session in 1981.

In 1986, after the releasing of the album and the next tour, McGeoch left and joined Public Image Ltd. and Doyle collaborated with the Buzzcocks singer/guitarist Pete Shelley, being Jobson and Webb as the remaining members until 1988 when, after some material releases in 1987, they announced the band split up. Webb dedicated a solo career (according to the band's fansite) and in 1992 followed the steps of McGeoch in Public Image Ltd., and Jobson returned to a temporal solo career.

Personnel

* Richard Jobson ("The Captain" during the early days in 1983) - vocals / guitar
* John McGeoch ("The Legend" during 1983) - guitar / vocals
* Russell Webb ("Universe" during 1983) - bass guitar / vocals
* John Doyle ("Doylie" during 1983) - drums
* Dave Lockwood - guitar (replaced John McGeoch)
* Ray Weston - drums (replaced John Doyle)

Discography

External links

* [http://shotbybothsides.com/joh_armo.htm Unofficial site]
* [http://www.armouryshow.com Unofficial site]