Thee Faction

Not to be confused with The Faction or Faction.

Thee Faction
Thee Faction Live Putney
Red Scare (left), Babyface (right)
Background information
OriginSurrey, England
GenresGarage punk, punk, garage rock
Years active2010–present
LabelsSoviet Beret[1]
MembersBilly Brentford Nylons
Babyface
Dai Nasty
Kassandra Krossing
Thee Citizen
Red Scare
Nineteen Nineteen
The Ol' One Hand
Past membersThe G.A.
Horace Hardman
Christine Campbell
Websitetheefaction.org

Thee Faction are a British garage rock/garage punk band from Surrey, England, noted for their explicit socialist agenda.[2] They refer to their music, which incorporates elements of garage rock, pop and rhythm and blues[3] as "Socialist RnB".[4][5] Their album Up The Workers! was rated one of the Daily Mirror's top twenty albums of 2011.[6]

  1. ^ "Soviet Beret Records | Home of Socialist R&B and official record company for proletarian struggle". Sovietberet.wordpress.com. 8 July 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Neil Scott: Not a Review. Reviews are Bourgeois". Huffingtonpost.co.uk. 30 August 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Album Reviews – 2010". Tastyfanzine.org.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  4. ^ Simon Andrew (15 November 2012). "Thee Faction – Singing Down the Government". Beat-surrender.com. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  5. ^ Keen, Ross (15 May 2012). "Thee Faction: An Interview". Louderthanwar.com. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  6. ^ "Thee Faction's Up The Workers: the Daily Mirror's 17th best album of 2011 | Thee Faction". Theefaction.wordpress.com. 23 December 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2014.