The Peace & Freedom Band were a British group, formed in 1986, by two underground poets - Luton-born Paul Rance, and Hartlepool's Andy Bruce. Basically coming out of Peace & Freedom magazine - which was then a music/poetry fanzine edited by Rance, and later photocopied by Bruce - The Peace & Freedom Band, often called the P&F Band, were to produce seven albums of varying quality. Their last album being the mp3.com CD, Earth, in 2000. In 2008, the band's first new song for 8 years, 'Earth R.I.P. - Or?...' was released as a free download on MySpace. The Peace & Freedom Band began to take shape around 1984 and 1985, when Bruce and Rance planned putting music to their own poetry, and that of Croydon poet and artist Peter Gibbs and Norwich poetess and fanzine editor Hayley Tagg. Nothing really came to fruition, until Bruce and Rance put out a rough music demo in 1986 of their own work and acoustic recordings of traditional folk songs.