Evicted

Evicted

History

A short-lived Belfast skinhead to punk band formed in early 1982 by Philip “Doc” Doherty on vocals and TB “Chapy” Chapman on guitar, Baffer Eagle on bass and Gerardy McVeigh on drums. Baffer left the band before they had a chance to play any gigs and was replaced by Taz McCoy on bass. McVeigh then left, forcing the band to recruit Gerard Pauley on drums.

The Evicted eventually held down a regular line up long enough to play two gigs, in Artillery Youth Club and Carrick Hill community centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Both gigs were attended by a couple of hundred skinheads, punks and local herberts. The band played tracks like  “Crucified Skinhead”, “Today’s Youth”, “ACAB” and “Evicted” which reflected their strong anti-Nazi stance and “Harry May” (The Business) and “Mutant Rock” (The Meteors). Band guitarist Chapy left soon afterward to concentrate on his punkabilly garage band The Badvibes Reaction.

This saw Doc team up with members of the band Re’bel towards the end of 1983 and continued as Evicted. They continued with the same style of punk-skinOi!. The band was now Doc on vocals, Gerard on drums, Marty Lenane on guitar and Fergal Keenan on bass. They played the Rodney Com Centre. Later with help from some punks from Newry the band played on the roof of the Newry Town Hall. Police followed the band around and it got to the point that there were more police than fans at gigs and Evicted called it a day.