Artist Detailed Info: Urban Void

1977-78 Blackpool / Fleetwood punk rock band featuring future members of Zoo Boutique.

Duncan Jowitt was revising for 'O' Levels on Fleetwod beach with a couple of girl friends from school in bikinis during the long hot summer of 1976 when he was was approached and befriended by David Foster. Both had been listening to punk rock on John Peel. They began to hang out together and cut their hair and became Fleetwood's first punk rockers. Jowitt met Steve Rosser in 1977, while both were working at The Cliffs Hotel in Blackpool. Vi Brator (as Rosser then liked to be known) had taken up guitar and started a punk band The Vomits with friends from school and recruited Jowitt (who took the name Duncan Crap) on vocals. Although he had never played them before and couldn't keep a beat, Foster bought a drum kit so that he could join the band.

After a few months, Rosser sacked the bass player and The Vomits, after a brief period as Vex, were renamed Urban Void, with Rosser moving to bass and Jowitt, who was already reasonably adept on guitar, taking over guitar duties as Duncan Disorderly. The two alternated vocals, depending on who had written the song. Urban Void split in mid 1978 and after a spell in Section 25 Jowitt formed Final Solution 1979 with Foster. Rosser went on to front other bands and is now a well-respected producer of electronic music.

One poor quality (both in terms of sound and musical ability) Vomits rehearsal tape featuring Rosser, Jowitt and Foster and a surprisingly good recording of 8 Urban Void songs (plus a cover of Sex Pistols "Belsen Was a Gas" with Larry Cassidy on vocals) featuring Rosser and Jowitt with Section 25's Vin Cassidy on drums are the only remaining artefacts of either band.

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