The Tickets
Formed in mid ’77 The Tickets were a minor league punk band playing the fag end of The Roxy and Vortex. Originally a straight punk band they featured on the 1978 Farewell To The Roxy album singing ‘Get Yourself Killed.’ A year later only brothers Ken and Andy Scot the guitarist remained from that original line up having lost the original singer and bassist and were joined by John McGeady on bass.
Like so many others they had jumped the punk ship and become a more power pop sounding band.
The Tickets still played old punkier songs like Boring People On The Train, Getting Too Old and Get Yourself Killed but added more poppy songs like Pin Up, True Love, Young Girls and Dreaming interspersed with covers like Be Your Dog, Glad All Over and Let’s Dance. Err what a mix!
Refuting accusations of being contrived in their move to a poppier sound, they said to Garry Bushell “..its just the arrangement and interpretation that are different. The songs just evolve on their own.” Sounds 19.8.78
Garry summed it up
Getting to the point, the Tickets have metamorphosed into a pop group, meaning they sing high energy songs with catchy hook lines.
Sounds 19.8.78
Another regular venue for the boys was the Bridge House in Canning Town London who signed the band to their label. They released the poppy R’n’B sounding I’ll Be Your Pin Up / Guess I’ll Have To Sit Alone (1979 Bridgehouse) and that was it.
Andy Scott later joined The Cockney Rejects and resurrected Get Yourself Killed as ‘Join The Rejects’ before joining up with his brother Ken again in Wasted Youth for a short reprise.
In the Sounds interview of 19.8.79 they stated “…We know we’ll be famous by Christmas.” They never said which one.
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