When we Were Kings

When The Plague Doctors first started out we were incredibly bored with the local music scene and we we wanted to really annoy a lot of people. The first idea we had was to call the band the least modest name you could ever think up, that'll be 'The Fucking Kings' then. The second decision we made was that we wouldn't play any instruments live, just to annoy the local bands even more.

Needless to say we now play our music live and we've changed our name, we did have many great gigs as 'The Fucking Kings' in the Castle Hotel on Oldham street though.

Here are some commemorative images of us in our first incarnation


This is from our very first gig at a house party in Withington




Flyers for some of our very first public gigs