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Fire Engines are a post-punk band from Edinburgh, Scotland. Post-punk was a popular musical movement in the mid to late 1970s following on the heels of the initial Punk rock explosion of the early 1970s Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. The band was a part of the same literary art-punk scene as the Scars and their most famous contemporaries, Josef K. Scars (originally known as The Scars) were a Post-punk band that hailed from Edinburgh, Scotland, and were a part of that city's bustling Josef K was a Scottish Post-punk band active in the early 1980s who released singles on record label Postcard Records. They grew out of the Dirty Reds which had actor Tam Dean Burn as singer. Tam Dean Burn is a Scottish actor He has played a wide range of roles on stage and screen including in Taggart.

Vocals and guitar were performed by David Henderson, guitar by Murray Slade, bass by Graham Main, and on drums, Russell Burn. Henderson went on to form Win in the mid 1980s and then The Nectarine No. Win were a Scottish pop band from the 1980s After the dissolution of The Fire Engines, David Henderson formed Win with Ian Stoddart (Bass The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. 9 from the early 1990s until 2004. He is now working on a new band called The Sexual Objects who released a single on the Creeping Bent label in 2007.

The Fire Engines were noted for Get Up And Use Me/Everything's Roses (Codex 1980), and singles and LPs in 1981. In 2004, the band released a limited edition collaboration single with Franz Ferdinand. Franz Ferdinand is a rock band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 2001 The seven inch single contained a Franz Ferdinand cover of the Fire Engines song "Get Up and Use Me" with Fire Engines covering Franz Ferdinand's "Jacqueline". On Oct. 2, 2007, the Acute label issued Hungry Beat, a collection of the band's original studio recordings, was made available for the first time on CD in the US.

Discography

	Year	Title	Type	Label	UK Indie Chart Position
	1980	"Get Up and Use Me / Everythings Roses"	7" Single	Codex Communications Cdx 01	#9
	1980	"Lubricate Your Living Room"	Album	Pop Aural ACC 001	#4
	1981	"Candyskin / Meat Whiplash"	7" Single	Pop Aural 010	#7
	1981	"Big Gold Dream / New Thing In Cartons / Sympathetic Anaesthetic"	7" + 12" Single	Pop Aural 013	#15
	1981	"Aufgeladen Und Bereit Fur Action Und Spass"	US Compilation	Fast FPA 002	–
	1992	"Fond"	Compilation	Rev-Ola CREV001CD	–
Sept	2005	"Codex Teenage Premonition"	Compilation	Domino DNO 068	–
Mar	2006	"Discord" ¹	Single		–
Oct	2007	"Hungry Beat"	Compilation	Acute ACT009CD	–

¹ from John Peel session tracks "Discord" and "Candyskin"

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