Punishment of Luxury
Punishment of Luxury , also known as Punilux, was a punk or post-punk band that existed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The name comes from a painting by Giovanni Segantini .
Founded in December 1976 in the north-east of England , the group released their first single , Puppet Life , on the independent label Small Wonder Records , where Bauhaus , Patrik Fitzgerald , Crass , The Cure , the Cockney Rejects and the Angelic Upstarts also own first released records.
In 1979 the group signed a contract with United Artists and released the single Jellyfish / Engine of Excess and the album Laughing Academy . In 1980 the single Secrets / Brain Bomb was released. The records sold relatively well and received favorable reviews.
After a lengthy European tour, the band went into the studio to record the next album. During the recording, the record company United Artists was taken over by EMI , which dropped the band.
In 2007, over 30 years after it was founded, the band gave an anniversary concert.