Garbage Days Revisited #98: The Revillos - "Rev Up!" (1980)
"Give it a kick and I drive it away/Ride through the night and I sleep in the day" - The Revillos - Motorbike Beat As is probably obvious from the name, the Revillos were basically the Rezillos under a different name. For those unaware, the Rezillos were one of the best of the early pop-punk bands and one of the first Scottish punk bands to break through. But they very much weren't simple three-chord merchants, trading in bouncy rhythms, futuristic sci-fi imagery and were a big dollop of technicolour '50s style dreaming in the middle of the "less is more" image that a lot of the bands of that era employed. Their sole album, Can't Stand The Rezillos is rightly regarded as a '77 punk classic and I really recommend tracking it down if you're somehow unaware of it. When the Rezillos fell apart in late 1978 with the departure of guitarist and chief songwriter Jo Callis (who would eventually end up in the Human League), the remaining members of the...