Porter Band
Porter Band is one of the more important names in the history of Polish rock at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, even though its story was relatively brief and marked by several sharp turns. The group was founded in Wrocław in 1979 by John Porter, a Welsh musician who had settled in Poland in 1976 and decided to build his own guitar-driven band after earlier collaborations. The first lineup included Aleksander Mrożek on guitar, Kazimierz Cwynar on bass, and Leszek Chalimoniuk on drums. The stage debut came in July 1979 at the Muzyczny Camping festival in Lubań, after which the group quickly became an intensive touring act across Poland. Its main recording breakthrough was “Helicopters,” an album that later...
Artist Trivia
- The debut album “Helicopters” was recorded in just four days, which says a lot about the raw, fast, and performance-driven nature of the band’s first era.
- In roughly its first two years, Porter Band played hundreds of concerts, so it was a heavily active live act rather than a studio-only project.
- The group appeared at the first National Review of Young Generation Music in Jarocin in June 1980, placing it early in the story of one of Poland’s most important rock environments.
- When Leszek Chalimoniuk left for the United States, Wojciech Morawski replaced him, marking one of the key lineup changes in the band’s initial phase.
Discography
5 releases
Psychodelikatesy
Album2008
Electric
Album2000
Porter Band '99
Album1999
Helicopters
Album1992
Mobilization
Album1982