Sad Society formed in Edinburgh in the early 1980s from the ashes of several other bands who were playing the punk circuit at that time, and played their first gigs in 1984. From the start, their tuneful songs and Deek Wilson’s sneering trad-punk-style vocals marked them out from the increasingly-derivative and talentless punk pack, and despite arriving too late to catch the original punk bandwagon, the band have continued to play the music they love as fashions and fads have come and gone. Still fronted by Deek Wilson, Sad Society have a powerful, contemporary sound which is featured on their recently-recorded demos.

We don't care whether you're punk, goth, ted, metal or emo. Youth-cult wars were stupid in the eighties, and slogans such as 'Death To Emo' are no less idiotic today. Punk is about defying the system, being yourself and making your own choices in life, not picking on other people because their choice of clothes and music are different from yours. We don't care about fashions and labels or who has the wackiest hairdo or the most tattoos. If you like our music, that's good enough for us. Incidentally, we despise bigots, racists and nazis. If you hate people you've never even met just because their skin-colour, country-of-origin or sexual preference are different from your own, kindly do us a favour and get fucked.

Sad Society are also on MySpace; feel free to add us there. To contact Deek, please e-mail him at sadsociety82@hotmail.com. Cheers!

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 and drives them to suicide, the headline struck a chord. We ARE living in a sad society!