"I said Never Take Me Alive should be the single and the record company looked at me like, ‘That's commercial suicide!’ Luckily, it was a hit…” Spear Of Destiny's Kirk Brandon on hits, heart attacks and Theatre Of Hate

Singer Kirk Brandon, of Spear Of Destiny, portrait, United Kingdom, 1984. .

“I'm actually dead,” says Kirk Brandon. “I’m speaking to you from inside my coffin.”

In May 2023, Brandon was in Nottingham fronting one of his two ground-breaking bands – in this case, Spear Of Destiny, not Theatre Of Hate – when, he says, “I just had a little heart attack.”