Kirk Brandon was born on 3 August 1956 and is an English musician best known as the leader of the bands Theatre of Hate and Spear of Destiny.
14 Facts About Kirk Brandon
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The Pack consisted of Kirk Brandon, Scottish-born drummer Rab Fae Beith and two Canadian brothers, Simon and Jon Werner on guitars.
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Kirk Brandon then formed the post punk new wave band Theatre of Hate in 1980 recruiting Stan Stammers on bass guitar, Nigel Preston on drums, Billy Duffy on guitar and John 'Boy' Lennard on saxophone.
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In 2003, Kirk Brandon did a solo tour as support to The Alarm on their 'Poppyfields' tour.
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Kirk Brandon's set included some new material played on an acoustic guitar with electric pick up, as well as some material from his time with Theatre of Hate and Spear of Destiny.
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Kirk Brandon continues to tour with both Spear of Destiny and Theatre of Hate, as well as a revamped Dead Men Walking, playing occasionally as The Pack, and acoustic shows including with cellist Sam Sansbury.
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In 1987, Kirk Brandon developed reactive arthritis and could not walk for more than a year.
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Kirk Brandon was married in 1994 to a Danish woman, Christina.
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In 1997, Kirk Brandon sued the singer Boy George for malicious falsehood and lost.
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Kirk Brandon claimed that stories about the gay affair in the early 1980s damaged his career as a musician.
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The judge ruled in favour of the defendants, and ordered Kirk Brandon to pay some of their legal costs.
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In January 2008, Kirk Brandon sued GlaxoSmithKline UK over personal injuries as a result of taking the anti-depressant drug Seroxat.
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Kirk Brandon was a tutor at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music in 2012.
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Kirk Brandon was portrayed by the actor Richard Madden in the 2010 television film Worried About the Boy, a dramatisation of Boy George's rise to fame in the early 1980s.