Line Up

Neol Davies (Later of The Selecter) – Guitar / songwriter / Vocals

Desmond Brown (later of The Selecter) – Hammond Organ

John “Brad” Bradbury (Later of The Specials) – Drums

Steve Wynne (aka Vaughan Tive) – Bass, (Later of The Swinging Cats)

Kevin Harrison (Later of Urge) – Guitar / Vocals

A Neol Davies band prior to forming The Selecter in 1979. The band were playing Neol Davies songs that were later done by The Selecter, including the On My Radio (Kevin Harrison had a demo version of this by Transposed Men on his Personal History site – which seems to have disappeared now). 

From Kevin Harrison’s Personal History –

” I join ‘Transposed Men‘. The name comes from a sixties book cover I have glued to the front of an old drum machine. Neol Davies and John Bradbury were already friends of mine and the line-up showed great promise. I had already recorded a few demos of Neol’s songs at Brad’s cellar in Warwick at a prior date. Anyway the main bulk of the songs we played became staples in The Selecter’s set and many featured on their first album. Virgin Records were interested but nothing happened. Anyway when Brad left to join The Specials everything fell apart. After awhile Neol and Desmond teamed-up with some of the ex-members of Hardtop 22, Pauline Black joined them on vocals, and The Selecter was born, Steve Wynne eventually joined The Swinging Cats and sometime after that Dexy’s Midnight Runners”