were an early 1980s post-punk ensemble born of the Notting Hill, West London music scene. Founding member Ian Lowery had initially been signed to Killing Joke's Malicious Damage label as leader of the group Ski Patrol. Politics and the general tensions that seemed endemic to the Killing Joke scene led Ian to leave Ski Patrol and recruit long time friend of Jaz Coleman - Alan Cole on drums, Kris Jojazitis on guitar (now Dr Kris Jozatis at Stirling University) and Mark Whiteley, from Wales, on bass to form another, more satisfying but no less intense project - The Folk Devils.

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