Corbett was one of the founding members and original vocalist of The Apostles, an anarcho-punk band that formed in Hackney in 1979. He published many anarchist diatribes and fanzines in the early 1980s, such as Precautions essentiales pour la bonne and Luz y Fuerza, and promoted gigs for Crass, Zounds, The Mob, Rudimentary Peni, Flux Of Pink Indians, Primal Chaos and Hagar the Womb. For several years he was the 'key-holder' for the Wapping Autonomy Centre.
Corbett studied art and photography at Chelsea College of Art from 1982 until 1984, when he dropped out and formed the band Savage Eden with ex Apostle Julian Portinari and Seamus Brady (Crux and ex-IRA H-Block resident). The band were hounded by authorities until their demise in 1987, when Corbett and Portinari formed Pallor with Ben Bethell and Dan Macintyre (another ex-Apostle). The band released one album Four more cunts on the road to nowhere which achieved cult status on the anarcho-punk scene in the late 80's.
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