Gaye Advert
Gaye Advert (born Gaye Balsden on 29 August, 1956) is an English punk rock musician who played bass guitar in the band, The Adverts, in the late 1970s.
Gaye Advert was born in the county of Devon in South West England. Advert is famous as the bassist for the British punk rock band The Adverts. She is known as one of the first female stars of the punk rock movement. Like many other punk musicians of the time Advert was not very talented at her instrument.
Advert is known to be a very big fan of Iggy Pop, it is reported that she slept with a picture of him under her pillow. Advert was well known to be around many of the players in the early punk scene in England. She has been pictured with the likes of Paul Cook, Joey Ramone and Captain Sensible.
Today, Advert lives with the former singer of The Adverts, T.V. Smith, in Paddington in the Westminster district of London. After the demise of The Adverts in 1980 Advert officially stopped playing the bass guitar and disappeared form the British punk scene. Today she is an activist for animal rights. She is known to show up to some of T.V. Smith's gigs as he is now performing as a solo artist.