Zounds with Steve Lake

Steve Lake - Zounds - in conversation with David Eastaugh

The band were formed around the nucleus of Steve Lake from Reading, Berkshire and evolved from a number of jamming sessions with other musicians and friends in Oxford, taking in influences from the Velvet Underground to the Sex Pistols. The band began performing gigs in 1977/78 with a line-up of Steve Lake (vocals/bass), Steve Burch (guitar) and Jimmy Lacey (drums), adding Nick Godwin (guitar)^[1] at their second gig – adopting the name 'Zounds', chosen from a dictionary by Burch