Dave TwistEamonn Duffy The Prefects were a British punk band from Birmingham, England, with members that would later form The Nightingales.
[2] Unsuccessful previous applicants had included Nikki Sudden and Frank Skinner.
[2] They were Birmingham's first punk group, and played their first gig on 12 March 1977 at a private party which ended in a police raid.
[2] In November 2004 (following a semi-official retrospective, The Sound of Tomorrow on Rush Release) a retrospective compilation Amateur Wankers was released by New York City label Acute Records which, twenty five years after the group's demise, garnered praise all over, from webzines to Rolling Stone.
The interest was such that a Live in 1978 CD was also released on British label Caroline True in 2005.