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The Bromley Contingent were a group of followers of the Sex Pistols.[1] The name was coined by Melody Maker journalist Caroline Coon, after the town of Bromley where some of them lived. They helped popularise the fashion of the early UK punk movement.

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Bromley Contingent

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The Bromley Contingent were a group of followers of the Sex Pistols. The name was coined by Melody Maker journalist Caroline Coon, after the town of Bromley...

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Soo Catwoman

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known as the Bromley Contingent such as Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin and Billy Idol. While she was also associated with the Bromley Contingent by all the...

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Billy Idol

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English degree but left after year one in 1976. He then joined the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, a loosely organised gang that travelled to see...

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Bromley

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Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is 9+1⁄2 miles (15 kilometres) southeast of Charing Cross...

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Siouxsie Sioux

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In the following months, journalist Caroline Coon coined the term "Bromley Contingent" to describe this group of eccentric teenagers devoted to the Sex...

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Pamela Rooke

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Pamela Rooke (23 June 1955 – 3 April 2022), (known as Jordan) was an English model and actress known for her work with Vivienne Westwood and the Sex boutique...

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Debbie Wilson

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Debbie Juvenile, prominent member of the early UK punk fan faction the Bromley Contingent, later a film set designer Debra Wilson (born 1962), American actress...

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Trevor Goddard

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was closely linked with the early punk movement – first through the Bromley Contingent (the first fans of the Sex Pistols), and three famous punk singers...

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Nightclub

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punk club and hangout of the Sex Pistols, Siouxsie Sioux plus the Bromley Contingent, and then Blitz (the home of the Blitz Kids). Crackers was a key part...

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Steven Severin

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music over footage of silent films. He grew up in Archway and moved to Bromley at the age of 11. On a Sunday afternoon in 1971, he discovered German rock...

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The Lords of the New Church

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Thompson asserts this represented "the first time since the Sex Pistols' Bromley Contingent fanbase [that] a band had succeeded in grafting its own identity onto...

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Timeline of punk rock

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Toys, Vibrators, the Damned, and Buzzcocks. Sex Pistols, members of Bromley Contingent (including Banshees Siouxsie Sioux, Steve Severin) appear live on...

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Siouxsie and the Banshees

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Pistols. Journalist Caroline Coon dubbed them the "Bromley Contingent", as most of them came from the Bromley area in south-east London, a label Severin came...

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History of the punk subculture

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music (although in the UK, many early Sex Pistols fans such as the Bromley Contingent and Jordan quite liked disco, often congregating at nightclubs such...

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Punk rock

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notorious reputation, when the Sex Pistols and several members of the Bromley Contingent, including Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin, filled a vacancy for...

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Disco

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disco, although, in the UK, many early Sex Pistols fans such as the Bromley Contingent and Jordan liked disco, often congregating at nightclubs such as Louise's...

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Bill Grundy

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attention to the female members of the band's entourage, known as The Bromley Contingent appearing with them and which included Siouxsie Sioux. He asked, "What...

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Punk fashion

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influenced the designs of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren and the Bromley Contingent. Mainstream punk style was influenced by clothes sold in Malcolm McLaren's...

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Philip Sallon

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and began associating with a clique of young punk fans dubbed the "Bromley Contingent". after the BBC he then moved on to the Royal Opera House in 1982...

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100 Club Punk Special

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and T. V. Smith (later of The Adverts), as well as members of the Bromley Contingent, the punk fashion avant-garde, Andrew Czezowski (ex-manager of the...

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George Lansbury

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but remained with the Labour Party. As the most senior of the small contingent of Labour MPs that survived the 1931 UK general election, Lansbury became...

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out that it is interesting that the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance has survived from pagan ritual – Abbot's Bromley being only 35 miles (55 km) away from the...

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