TO CROWDFUND THE FOURTH ALBUMYet another band member birthday today! This time it’s the turn of bass legend Steve Smith. Many happy returns of the day Mr S x… Read the rest
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News We are pleased to announce that Cherry Red Records, in conjunction with the band and R and T Industries, are releasing a comprehensive 4 CD boxset covering the band’s entire UA and Liberty recordings on the 13th of August. … Read the rest News We’re pleased to confirm that The Vapors are appearing as special guests of The Skids at the Assembly in Leamington Spa on Thursday 4th November. Tickets are onsale now here  News …to the other guitarist! Happy birthday to Dan ‘Danny’ Fenton today hope you have a fantastic day Mr F Junior x… Read the rest News We’d like to wish many happy returns of the day to Ed Bazalgette. Hope you have a great day Mr B x… Read the rest Features  Forty years ago this week saw the release of the band’s sixth (and final) single ‘Jimmie Jones’, taken from the ‘Magnets’ LP, which Liberty had decided to commission a promo video for. Clearly they felt that it had a better chance of radio & TV coverage and commercial success compared to the previous single ‘Spiders’. We thought that it would be interesting to focus on the making of the JJ video with anecdotes and memories from those who were there on the day, including all four band members.… Read the rest News  Exactly 40 years ago today, back in 1981, the band released their sixth single ‘Jimmie Jones’ which was the second taken from their ‘Magnets’ album. It was backed with another track from the album, ‘Daylight Titans’, and was far more commercially accessible than its predecessor ‘Spiders’, despite the subject matter of a mass-murdering cult leader! To boost the promotion of the release, EMI stumped up the cash for a video to be made and there’s a feature about the making of the video coming very soon.… Read the rest News Happy birthday to the big bloke behind the drums, Michael Bowes, have a great day x… Read the rest News The band’s long-time roadie Tim Cox is also a keen mountain biker and he is cycling 200 miles off-road in May to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK. If you’re able to sponsor him for this worthy cause, you can find his fund-raising page here Thanks… Read the rest News The band marked their regrouping after a year apart by working on a 2021 remix of the first single ‘Together’ from the last album. Once again, they worked with the original producer Steve Levine on the remix and he added brass making it fresher & edgier. Together is now bigger, badder and brassier! Available from all major Download platforms April 16th Update 16/4: now available to download here |
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