Andrew Reader- guitar and vocals,
Roger White -Bass,
Gareth Brown - guitar,
Mitchell Edmunds-vocals,
Jeremy Radcliffe-drums.
later- Steve Hyett-drums
later -Jonathan "Cab" Phillips-bass,
Originally called the Losers, it was as Johnny and the Nuforms that they played their first couple of gigs at Pennard church hall with local school mates, Mannequin. By the time they'd graduated to the SSA bar however, at a benefit for Rock against Racism in the summer of 1978, they'd changed their name again, to become the Nuforms.
"That summer saw three appearances at the celebrated punk watering hole, supported by Mannequin, The Trendies and The End. The last, on September 16th, was sold out by 8:30 and the fab Nuforms, then Reader, White and Ratcliffe, hit the zenith of their career amidst a mass of heaving bodies and unsold copies of Alarm. That night the Nuforms split up." -A Certain Euphoria fanzine
In 1979, Andrew got the band back together for a few months but the feeling wasn't there and Gary Brown (who'd recently joined from the now defunct Trendies) soon departed. After a drastic rethink, Mitchell Edmond from Virgin records was roped-in on vocals, leaving Reader to concentrate more on songwriting duties. Unlike,most of his contemporaries who simply charged through their songs, Reader was a stickler for detail and was always striving for perfection, and when writing songs, each piece of the song, drum rolls, fills, bass parts etc were meticulously pored over and examined before being included or discarded.
"Swansea punk band formed in 1978, originally featuring Jeremy Ratcliffe and with Reader handling both guitars and vocals, under the name Johnny & The Nuforms. After the line-up shifted with Edmond arriving on vocals and new drummer Steve Hyett joining, they continued to gig in and around Swansea until 1980, playing alongside local friends the Dodos, the Standards and the Tunnelrunners.
In June they released their solo single 'Bermuda at Spaceward Studios in Cambridge. Edmond: 'We recorded it in one day, then drove to London next day to get it mastered and leave it at a pressing plant. We had 1 000 made - all in picture sleeves, but 500 went in glossy card sleeves and the other 500 were printed on ordinary paper. That was the only recording of the band. It was self-financed through our own cash and money borrowed from friends,'
John Peel liked the single and played it and it was also reviewed in the NME (who subsequently called it one of the best independent singles of 1980). Soon they found themselves persued by WEA, and Greg Shaw of Bomp! records. But any promise was forfeited when, in the autumn of 1980, Reader elected to take up a place at Cambridge University, while Hylett joined the RAF. John 'Cab' Phillips also set sail for college, but after a long intervening period returned to music whith his Johnny Jet project "
-from "No More Heroes (A Complete History of UK Punk from 1976 to1980)" by Alex Ogg (Cherry Red Books)
Recorded one session for Swansea Sound(1980) -4 tracks ( ?) Bomb in the guildhall, rest unknown
One single release:- Bermuda/I Can See through Walls (a certain euphoria, 1980)
I Can See Through Walls also appeared on the compilaton LP , "Teenage Treats #4" (Xerox Records 1998)
