Sad Society formed in Edinburgh in the early 1980s from the ashes of several other bands: Area 12, Pressure Point and Radar. The band have continued to play the music they love as fashions and fads have come and gone. Sad Society have a powerful and contemporary sound which is best experienced live.

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The name Sad Society was inspired by a headline in the Edinburgh Evening News many years ago, which read "We are living in a sad society". Since Sad Society’s songs are about the realities of life in this horrible world of forced-conformity, violence, greed and hatred which grinds people down. The headline struck a chord; we are living in a sad society!