Introducing Fink and Mean

Suggs and Carl are two members of Madness the seven piece ska and pop band from London. They are the lead and second vocalists in the band.. Visit mad links for more info on them and the band. The Fink Brothers was a side project these two undertook in 1985 after setting up the Zarjazz record label to expand the creativity of the band, into other areas. They were both avid 2000AD readers at the time of this project and they took the name the Fink Brothers from the comic strip Judge Dredd . Fink Angel and Mean Machine Angel are two members of the angel gang a vicious band of hill-billy mutants from the waste land outside of Mega-city one. Sworn enemies of Judge Dread not least because he killed most of their family. They sampled Judge Dredd's voice and came back in time with this record to make money and take over the world, without a Judge to stop them!

Suggs and Carl on why they chose the Fink Brothers characters

Suggs: "We wanted as much as possible to make it like the comic, not just a

record by a couple of out of work pop stars, but to make it something that (was)

actually part of the comic, more for the people who read it and for other people

to be able to get a vague grasp of what it is, as opposed to just writing a

Madness song about Judge Dredd. We keep to the characters because it makes it

more fun for the readers of 2000AD, it would have spoiled it if it said the real

people on the back."

Carl: "Y'see the comic is full of thrill power, every Friday we get up and we

look for our comic, so if we let the front slip and admitted it was by us, then

our thrill circuits would be sucked by thrill suckers who are all around us at

all times."

- Jammin Magazine February 1985

Fink Angel

Fink angel is the character the name The Fink Brothers originates from. (Although they starred together in the strip Destiny's Angels as a Duo, they are not referred to as the Fink brothers directly in 2000AD.) Coming to life in the four part story "The Fink", he appears as a badly mutated member of the Angel family out for revenge on Dredd for his deceased family members. A ghastly killer he is an expert on poison and used to live in a hole estranged from his family kept company by his bowler hat wearing pet rat. He later teams up with Mean and goes after Dredd , finally perishing when Dredd pushes him onto his fathers own torture machine.

The Fink appears in 2000AD PROGS 194 - 197 and 280 - 288.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW

After serving seven years in an Iso-cube (pop wilderness) for sampling a Judge on their record, the Fink Brothers reformed for a series of one off concerts in Finksbury park where the ground shook (cus they blew it up) .

Madness are still rocking away with a new album "The Dangermen Sessions", Suggs

is also working on TV shows such as Disappearing London and is a DJ on Virgin

Carl formed a record label "Rolled Gold Records" and his own web site at www.chassmash.co.uk

Mean Machine Angel

Mean machine Angel was actually nice before his cruel father, wanting him to be evil like the

rest of the family, had him operated on. Given a robotic claw arm and his brain mostly replaced with a metal helmet featuring a dial that sets his emotions - 1-Surly 2-Mean 3-Vicious 4- Brutal -

he occasionally he gets stuck on 4 1/2 and goes into a head butting frenzy. He lost his other arm when Dredd shot it off. He died when head butting a petrol pump. This is his general level of intelligence. He was later resurrected by a powerful mystic called the Judge Child and has been in and out of the Mega-city one jails (Iso-cubes) ever since often failing attempts at rehabilitation.

He appears in 2000AD PROGS 160, 177-180,195, 280-288, 450, 730-736. Dredd annual 1983, In the graphic novel "Three Amigos", the Batman crossover "Judgment on Gotham", in the recent Judge Dredd film and in megazine 69 out now!