Scarecrow | ja

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Scarecrow was a classic old-school post-punk/goth in the Siouxsie vein, New York City's Scarecrow highlighted Beth Balousek's icy, menacing female vocals, wed to tribal drums and spiky, swirling guitar and bass interludes. Forming at the end of 1983, the quartet known as Scarecrow could legitimately claim to be New York City's very first gothic band, just ahead of Of a Mesh, and they were a huge influence on later local bands in the same style such as The Naked and the Dead and The Ochrana. A stellar three-song demo appeared...

Evil Scarecrow are the finest heavy metal band ever to write a song about a robot… probably. Many years ago in a desolate Lincolnshire town, a band of dubiously termed musicians of Nordic heraldry with a fondness for sticky back plastic decided to go their separate ways, but as a phoenix rises from the ashes a new and perhaps even more glorious band emerged from the dying embers of Thor’s Children (widely regarded as the greatest Blue Peter Metal band of all time) and thus Evil Scarecrow triumphantly exploded into existence. In the following years the band relocated to Nottingham...

The Scarecrows 1982 till 87.. The Scarecrows were formed in December 1982. Dave Twist (Drums) and Mandy Darlington (vocals), (then his girlfriend) They had both been in a band called The Bible Belt along with myself, this band also consisted of Dave Kusworth. Dave K went on to form a band called The Rag Dolls with what was the other remains of The Bible Belt but with a new Drummer (Carl Bevan). I took some time out to consider my options. One of the first things Mandy and Dave did was to approached Steve Duffy for some song writing tips,...