The Method Actors, a post-punk/new wave band from Athens, Georgia, was formed in 1979 by guitarist/vocalist Vic Varney and drummer/vocalist David Gamble. From 1980 through 1982, they recorded and released a number of well-received discs, including This Is It (a three-song 7” picked as a Single of the Week in the U.K.’s New Music Express), the Rhythms of You EP (trimmed of two songs for U.S. release as Dancing Underneath), and the double-LP Little Figures (reduced to a single LP in the U.S.). Gamble departed and the band was a quartet by the time it released 1983’s Luxury. Much of the early material was compiled on This Is Still It, released in 2010 by Acute. ~ Andy Kellman