Between June 1964 and September 1966, London-area R&B band Downliners Sect issued ten singles, one EP and three albums on EMI’s Columbia imprint. A lot of records. Especially so for a band which ...

My father, Don Craine, who has died of lung cancer aged 76, was leader of a British R&B band, the Downliners Sect, which was influential in the early 1960s London music scene. Although it did not ...

The Downliners Sect was a British rhythm and blues band of the beat boom era, formed in 1963 when the existing Downliners band split up. Stylistically, they were similar to The Yardbirds, The Pretty ...

Though Barcelona's Downliners Sekt have been in operation for more than a decade, Silent Ascent (their first long player to get full a physical release) is by far their most important piece to date.

Though Barcelona's Downliners Sekt have been in operation for more than a decade, Silent Ascent (their first long player to get full a phys ...