Scritti Politti

Scritti Politti was a successful British pop music group in 1980s. It began as a left-wing-inspired post-punk rock group before evolving into the mainstream pop music project of its Welsh singer-songwriter Green Gartside. The group enjoyed

Scritti Politti was a successful British pop music group in 1980s. It began as a left-wing-inspired post-punk rock group before evolving into the mainstream pop music project of its Welsh singer-songwriter Green Gartside. The group enjoyed modest success in the pop music charts in the U.K. and U.S. in the mid-1980s and, after a lengthy hiatus, remains today as solo project for Gartside. The name Scritti Politti was chosen as a homage to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci (although a lexically correct rendition would have produced the more obvious Scritti Politici it is generally understood to refer to Gramsci's "political writings").

Along with Gartside, the early line-up of the band included Matthew Kay (keyboards, manager), Tom Morley (drums) and Nial Jinks (bass) who left in 1980. The primary line up of the band (1983-1989) consisted of Gartside (vocals), David Gamson (co-songwriter/keyboards/programming), and Fred Maher (drums/drum programming).