Easy Action were formed around Marc Sampson on drums, Iain McCallum, bass, Neil MaCleay on guitar and Simon Maudsley on vocals.

They entered the Rock Competition in 1981 but failed to reach the finals.

Marc Sampson was eventually replaced by Terry Hardy who was also drumming for Pete The Meat And The Boys, Spelling Misteaks and The Gangsters.

Electric Savage were a short lived rock band featuring three of Harlows greats, Tony Spetch on bass, Ian Pack on guitar and Clive Brown on vocals. Bill Jordan played drums.

We managed to find one song by Electric Savage, "Born To Burn"

LINE UP TONY DIXON, SYNTH AND GUITAR/ROBIN GIDDINGS, GUITAR AND VOCALS/ANDY WRIGHTON, BASS/DAVE SMITH, DRUMS

Explorer were Martin Noone, guitar, Peter Noone, bass, Brian Bonhomme, guitar and vocals and Paul Halsey on drums.

Brian later went on to form Roman Holliday who had a couple of chart hits.

Peter Noone went on to play with Wild West and now plays for The Cross, Queens' Roger Taylor's latest band.

F.O.C. were a rock band formed by Steve Harcourt (after he left Collapsed Lung), guitar, Woody, bass, Mark Walledge, drums, Si Trundle on guitar and vocals and finished off with Jay Arden on vocals.

They had been part of Snowblind with Nic Foote playing bass. When Woody joined they became F.O.C.

Final Warning were formed after Martin Brown had left The Ol' Renes and were a follow on to his punk band No Warning.

He was joined by Karl Huff on drums, and, Pete Hawkins (bass) and Pete "The Ash" Ashby, both from Shadowfax, on guitar.

Final Warning entered the 1982 Rock Competition but failed to reach the finals.

LINE UP PETE CROCKFORD, BASS/CHRIS SUTTON, GUITAR/DJ TONES, DECK/STEVE CLARK, DRUMS/NIK HODGES, GUITAR AND VOCALS

Fledge were based around singer Sarah Ross and guitarist/singer Jo Clack. They played catchy pop/folk music.

They were eventually joined by Steve Ball on percussion and Sandy Shearer on bass.

An utterly chaotic band that built up a huge following during the 1987 Rock Contest.

Foils and The Fishcakes were, Lee and Danny on guitars, Neil Faulkes on bass and Andy McDonald (from The Pressure) on drums. Chaos and noise reigned but they were a most fun band.

Not too much is known about this lot.

LINE UP EWART RICHARDSON, GUITAR/KEVIN WELLS, BASS/RAY DAVIES, DRUMS

Formed by Paul Woodwright, guitar/vocals, Brian Hasler and Austin Stack, both on bass, David Leader, drums, and finished off with Chris Moffatt and Gillian Wright on vocals.

With two bassists things got rather intense. After being championed by Colin Dredd (Newtown Neurotics) and landing a support slot with them at The Square they split up after a handful of gigs as Austin left to join Real By Reel and the rest began the embryo that was to become Deviant Amps.

LINE UP MARK THOMAS, BASS/NICK FRENCH, DRUMS/MARTIN MINIHANE, VOCALS/MARTIN WHEELDON, GUITAR

A kind of a Harlow Supergroup at the time.

Pete Brown, harmonica/vocals, was joined by Mick Crossley and Sarah Ross on vocals, Grant Bowden and Simon Lomond on drums, Tony Spetch and Richard Holgarth on guitar duties with Dave Jack on bass duties.

The Grounded Nurses entered the 1985 Rock Contest but failed to reach the final although they did win the 'B' Final.

LINE UP RICHARD NORRIS, DRUMS/KEEF BRADSHAW, BASS AND VOCALS/JUSTIN BRETT, GUITAR AND VOCALS/KRIS MAY, GUITAR

Early 90's Big Rockers Hard Knoxx were, Ian Gill, bass, Chris Moore, guitar, Chris Redman, vocals, Paul Slater, guitar, and "Bones" on drums.

After Ian Gill left bass was replaced by John Sellings.

Agter John left they carried on as a four piece with Chris taking on bass duties. They disbanded shortly after.

LINE UP BAZ, BASS/SAV, KEYBOARDS/ROB FORSYTHE, KEYBOARDS

Early 90's Heavy rock band Headswirl were Mark Emery, guitar and vocals, Andy Scott, bass, Lawrence Salisbury on drums and Paul Epworth on guitar and vocal duties.

Paul Epworth went on to work, as producer or re-mixer, with, The Futureheads, Bloc Party, Muse, Babyshambles, The Rakes, The Music, The Streets, Maximo Park and U2 among others.

Mid 80's rock band. Heartland were formed from the ashes of OPM and Blue Murder and featured Andy Jessup on keyboards, Martin Noone on guitar, Chris Banford on guitar and vocals, with Peter Noone on bass and Alan Mead on drums.

Late 70's/early 80's rock band Hedgehog were formed by Steve Banks, keyboards, Martin Bailey, vocals, Izzy, guitar, Kevin Ball, drums and Robin Kohler.

Hedgehog built up a large following in the Town before they re-named themselves The Fascinators in 1981.