Artist Biography by Dave Thompson
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Spear of Destiny was formed by Kirk Brandon and Stan Stammers from the wreckage of Theatre of Hate, and named, with characteristic grandeur, for the weapon with which the Roman centurion Longinus pierced the body of the crucified Christ. Much of the group's debut album was already in place before Lasette Ames and Chris Bell joined; released on the band's own Burning Rome label, The Grapes of Wrath echoed Theatre of Hate's final demos with astonishing precision. This original quartet did not survive for long. The album had barely hit the street when Ames and Bell quit, the latter citing both personal and religious reasons (he subsequently resurfaced in Gene Loves Jezebel). Theatre of Hate's Nigel Preston, fresh from a stint with Sex Gang Children, and Diodes' saxophonist John Lennard were drafted in for live work, but by the time Spear began work on their second album, 1984's One Eyed Jacks, both had been replaced, by former Tom Robinson Band/Stiff Little Fingers drummer Dolphin Taylor, Case sax player Nick Donnelly, Neil Pyzer, and guitarist Alan St Clair from Howard Devoto's first post-Magazine lineup. This, the definitive Spear aggregation, toured constantly -- three outings during 1984 saw them saturate the U.K. and incite Melody Maker to enthuse, 'this time next year, [this band] should be huge... that they aren't already is down to nothing more than... criminal bad luck' -- the bad luck which denied three successive 45s, 'Rainmaker,' 'Prisoner of Love,' and 'Liberator' even a Top 50 berth. The failure of One Eyed Jacks did much to knock Brandon back, dealing a blow from which he would not recover even after 1985's World Service, a less cohesive, but occasionally superior album just missed the Top Ten. Two further indelible singles, 'All My Love' and 'Come Back,' were barely noticed, and when attempts to record a new album on the Manor Mobile collapsed in bad-tempered disarray, Brandon sacked the entire group. (This material was subsequently released within Spear's Psalm series of archive collections). Spear of Destiny vanished for much of the next two years, and when the band did return, it was with a completely new lineup of Brandon, bassist Chris Bostock, drummer Pete Barnacle, former Adam & the Ants guitarist Marco Pirroni, and keyboardist Volker Janssen. Ironically, it was now that Spear finally achieved the destiny which had evaded them for so long. Released on Virgin's 10 subsidiary, Outland spawned Spear of Destiny's biggest hits yet, 'Stranger in Our Town,' 'Never Take Me Alive,' 'Was That You,' and 'The Traveller.' The group also toured with U2, an outing which culminated at Wembley Stadium in June, 1987. But before the group could capitalize on their sudden success, tragedy struck. Literally on the eve of an appearance at the Reading Festival, Brandon was diagnosed with Reiter's Syndrome and ordered to bed. He spent a year flat on his back, barely able to move at a time when Spear of Destiny's commercial stock had never been higher. Outland was their biggest seller yet; their first tour of America was beckoning... and the brightest spot on the horizon was the possibility that Brandon might be able to learn to walk again.