The Invisible Girls

The Invisible Girls
Guitarist Vini Reilly
Background information
Origin	Salford, Greater Manchester, England
Genres	Post-punk synth-pop gothic rock
Years active	1978 – c. 1982
Labels	Factory Illusive Epic
Past members	Martin Hannett Steve Hopkins Paul Burgess Lyn Oakey John Scott Robert Blamire Vini Reilly Dave Rowbotham John Maher Dave Hassell Wayne Hussey

The Invisible Girls were a British rock band, formed in Salford, Greater Manchester in 1978,^[1] to provide a musical backdrop to the recorded output of Salford punk poet John Cooper Clarke. The band's nucleus was Joy Division and New Order producer Martin Hannett and keyboardist Steve Hopkins, with contributions from, amongst others, Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks and Bill Nelson of Be-Bop Deluxe. The band also played on the first solo album by Pauline Murray (lead singer of Penetration), the eponymous Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls and some singles, and later with Nico for the single "Procession".