FINAL SOLUTION

BIOGRAPHY:

Final Solution were formed from the ashes of The Field in June 1986 by Russell McEwan (drums / vocals), Gordon Robertson (keyboards) & Stephen Smith (vocals / guitar / bass), by adding ex-Chainsaw Dance vocalist Alan Benzie on guitar & bass. Initially heavily influenced by Joy Division, the band played locally and in Glasgow, where two of the members attended art school. The band were deliberatly belligerent, a mixture of arrogance and paranoia infusing interviews with local fanzines. Despite this, they were well thought of musically. In 1988 they supported The Shamen at the QMU, Glasgow. A year later McEwan was "excommunicated" from the band, and turned up playing drums for Glaswegian act Macrocosmica. By then the band were occasionally known as FS, and had developed a more dance based sound. In 1991 the remaining members became Re:search.