The Valves were a punk rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland. One of the early British punk bands, they were chronicled in Henrik Poulsen's book 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave, and featured Dave Robertson as 'Dee Robot' on vocals, G. Dair / Teddy Dair a.k.a. Gordon Dair on drums, Gordon Scott or 'Pada' on bass guitar and Ronnie Mackinnon on guitar.[1][2]

The Valves
Publicity photo taken by Paul Slatterly, circa 1977
Background information
Origin	Edinburgh, Scotland
Genres	Punk rock
Years active	1977–1979
Labels	Zoom, Albion
Members	Dave Robertson Ronnie Mackinnon Gordon Scott Gordon Dair
Website	www.thevalves.co.uk

The Valves released three singles and then broke up in 1979. They reformed for a one-off gig in Edinburgh 21 December 2013.[3] In 2015, Ronnie, Pada and Gordon joined up with Joe Donkin, of The Cheetahs and Gordon Mackinnon, on keyboards. They are currently touring under The Valves name, playing material from the Valves, the Cheetahs and new material. Dave/Dee now lives in Belgium.[1] In 2020, they self released a retrospective LP, entitled Better Late... of material from 1977/78 and live versions of the singles from the reunion gig.[4]

Members

• Dee Robot (Dave Robertson) - vocals
• Ronnie (Ronnie Mackinnon) - guitar
• Pada (Gordon Scott) - bass
• G.Dair / Teddy (Gordon Dair) - drums
• Joe Donkin - vocals
• G.Mac / Gogsmac (Gordon Mackinnon) - keyboards

Discography

Albums

• Better Late... (Portobello Record Company - PORTY001 - 13 March 2020)[4]

Singles

• "Robot Love" / "For Adolfs Only" (Zoom - September 1977)
• "Ain't No Surf in Portobello" / "Tarzan of the Kings Road" (Zoom - December 1977)
• "It Don't Mean Nothing at All" / "Linda Vindaloo" (Albion - June 1979)[4]

References

External links

• Collection of (mostly bad) reviews of The Valves
• The Valves official homepage
• TheValvesOriginal Facebook
• Gordon Dair recordings

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