Political Asylum was formed in February '82 by Ramsey Kanaan and Stephen Brown, and hailed from Stirling, Scotland. They played melodic punk with Ramsey's distinctive voice "In 1986, we played a couple of gigs in the Birmingham area. Our support band was someone we had never heard before, but whom we fell about laughing when we heard soundcheck. They were called Napalm death....The main musical influences on the band were probably Husker Du, Rush, and the late Randy Rhoads.
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Political Asylum was formed in February '82 by Ramsey Kanaan and Stephen Brown, and hailed from Stirling, Scotland. They played melodic punk with Ramsey's distinctive voice "In 1986, we played a couple of gigs in the Birmingham area. Our support band was someone we had never heard before, but whom we fell about laughing when we heard soundcheck. They were called Napalm death....The main musical influences on the band were probably Husker Du, Rush, and the late Randy Rhoads. This was added to in the late 80s, when we were blown away by the Descendents "Enjoy". Ramsey Kanaan, San Francisco, June 1997 The line up was: Ramsey Kanaan - Vocals Stephen Brown - Guitar ('82-89?) Steven Dewar - Guitar ('89-91?) Ewan Hunt - Bass Keith Burns - Drums I met them in Italy in the summer of 1988 when they played a squat gig in Torino with "5 Les" from Belgium and they were great people (both P.A. and 5 Les) and I seem to remember Ewan helped me get very drunk that night.
