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Biography
Unreferenced|date=August 2010 Essential Logic was a United Kingdom|UK post-punk band (music)|band formed by saxophonist Lora Logic after leaving X-Ray Spex .
The band initially consisted of Lora Logic on saxophone and singing|vocals , Phil Legg on guitar and vocals, William Bennett (noise musician)|William Bennett (later of Whitehouse (band)|Whitehouse ) on guitar, Mark Turner on bass guitar , Rich Tea on drum s, and Dave Wright on saxophone . Turner was later replaced by Jon Oliver on bass.
They formed in 1978 in music|1978 with Logic fresh out of art school. Their first 7" was released on their own record label ; Cells. They released a self-titled Gramophone record|EP on Virgin Records in 1979, before signing to Rough Trade Records|Rough Trade . Their debut album , Beat Rhythm News - Waddle Ya Pay? was released in 1979, followed by several 7"s before the band split in 1980. In 1980-81 Logic also performed as a member of Red Crayola , as well as playing on sound recording and reproduction|recordings by The Raincoats , and Swell Maps|The SwellMaps .
Lora Logic released a solo (music)|solo LP, Pedigree Charm , in 1982 on the Rough Trade label. Soon afterwards she gave up recording and performing when she turned to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness|Hare Krishna religion, though she did record and perform under the X-Ray Spex name again when they reformed in 1995. She resumed with Essential Logic in 2001, and released a four-track EP of new material. The new line-up included ex-members of the ska group Bad Manners and guitarist Gary Valentine Lachman|Gary Valentine of Blondie (band)|Blondie . A year later, a further four tracks from a recording session in 1998 were made available from the website , Vitaminic.
In 2003, an anthology of Essential Logic recordings was issued, entitled Fanfare in the Garden , on the Kill Rock Stars record label.
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Allmusic|class=artist|id=p17354 Category:English punk rock groups Category:British post-punk music groups Category:British New Wave musical groups Category:Musical groups established in 1978
