Spitfire are a band from Crawley, West Sussex, England whose ever-changing line up revolved around brothers Nick & Jeff Pitcher. Other members included Justin Welch (later in Elastica), Steve Walker who went on to play in the Auteurs, Matt Wise and Scott Kenny. Two early EPs on Eve Recordings saw the band linked to the shoegazing scene, although a cover of The Six Million Dollar Man theme staked out their retro appeal. The band were involved in several controversial incidents including the handing out of backstage passes for groupies and a string of apparently sexist proclamations to the music press of the time. The band later insisted that these incidents were merely ironic and intended to poke fun at rock stars' posturing. Crawley is a town and local government district in West Sussex, England. ... West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ... Justin Welsh is a musician from the UK best known for being the drummer in britpop band Elastica. ... Elastica were a Britpop band who were popular in the 1990s, formed by Justine Frischmann after leaving Suede in 1991. ... The Auteurs were a vehicle for the songwriting talents of Luke Haines (guitar, piano and vocals). ... An extended play (or EP), is typically the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to be called singles but too short to qualify as albums. ... Shoegazing (also known as shoegaze) is a style of alternative rock that emerged in southern England in the late 1980s. ... Part of The Bionic series The Six Million Dollar Man was an American television series about a cyborg working for a U.S. secret service called OSI. The show was based on the novel Cyborg from Martin Caidin, and aired on the ABC network from 1973 to 1978. ... A groupie is a person whose devotion to a person (usually a celebrity, especially a rock and roll star) approaches the level of fanaticism. ...

Spitfire were later hailed as influential by many New wave of new wave and bands. The New Wave of New Wave (NWONW) was a term coined by music journalists to describe a sub-genre of the British alternative rock scene in the early 90s. ...