Malice were a short-lived British punk rock band from Crawley, Sussex, who performed together between January and December 1976. Members of the group later formed Easy Cure in 1977, who in turn became The Cure in 1978.
Marc Ceccagno, Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey, and two other classmates at St. Wilfrid's Comprehensive School, "Graham" and "Graham's brother" (full names not documented by the group), began rehearsals together at St. Edward's Churc...
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Malice were a short-lived British punk rock band from Crawley, Sussex, who performed together between January and December 1976. Members of the group later formed Easy Cure in 1977, who in turn became The Cure in 1978.
Marc Ceccagno, Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey, and two other classmates at St. Wilfrid's Comprehensive School, "Graham" and "Graham's brother" (full names not documented by the group), began rehearsals together at St. Edward's Church Hall, Crawley on January 23, 1976. They hired the hall every Thursday, initially playing cover versions of songs by David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Alex Harvey. According to Robert Smith, the band had been formed "because Marc Ceccagno wanted to be a guitar hero". Ceccagno, Smith and Dempsey had previously performed together while at Notre Dame Middle School in a short-lived band called The Obelisk, which gave one end-of-year performance for their classmates in April 1973.
In late April 1976, Graham and his brother left the group, and Lol...
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