Just A Feeling

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Buster: Oh totally – I perform like I was 18 again. I’ve just got this mad idea that my body seems to be getting better and younger and fitter and as long as I’ve got that in my head and my body’s responding I’m not complaining! After becoming popular in their native London, Bad Manners signed a recording contract with Magnet Records in 1980, and became regular guests on television shows such as Tiswas. The band also appeared on The British Music Awards (1981) and Cheggers Plays Pop. In 1985, they also appeared on The Time of Your Life, hosted by Noel Edmonds. Being closely associated with the 2 Tone movement (though never signed to 2 Tone Records itself), they were one of six bands featured in the 1981 documentary film Dance Craze. [1]

This has been our worst year for a while [numbers wise] but we’ve deliberately done that because we don’t want to overplay. We will be doing tours just before we do the festival that will be part of the promotion. But we’ve got that tag because we have seriously toured more than anyone else that I know and certainly over the years the distances that we’ve travelled - other bands would have just gone “no we’re not doing that!” Buster: My side of this is definitely promotions and making it a great event. I’ve networked all around places like the Midlands and the North and the West and London of course. That is a place where we are really going to aim at bringing people out for the weekend which is always a good thing to do – people need to get out of London. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Chris Woodstra. "Bad Manners | Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved 25 January 2014.a b c d e f g h i j k "Bad Manners upcoming tours 2023". eventim.co.uk. 20 January 2023. Archived from the original on 20 January 2023. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) a b Walters, Sarah (4 September 2008). "Tongue and groove with Buster..." manchestereveningnews.co.uk. Q. So, what bands are confirmed? "Anybody who comes along will just go to themselves – “Wow I can’t wait for next year!" Lip up Fatty, Special Brew, The Can Can, Lorraine, My Girl Lollipop, Just a Feeling and Walking in the Sunshine.

It’s going to be a solid three days of bands playing because there’s also a lot of small bands that will be going on. We’ll also have the bar running up at the museum end. The whole thing is going to be growing and in the next five years we hope to make it into a place where people will come along and really enjoy themselves – not just for this event but for other events. a b c d Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.39. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.But this July it is going to be the venue for another exciting music event, Badfest, a three day extravaganza featuring some of the bigger names from the past 25 years that continue to play live even though shunned by the bigger festivals and music companies. It will be an annual event. Buster: We were going to have it in Butlins by the sea and there were many other places planned but once we came here, to Twinwood, we sort of fell in love with the place. It’s got lots of connections, with Glenn Miller taking off from here on his last flight, so it’s quite a special place to hold a music festival. The grounds being RAF based actually looked the part for a Badfest – it all goes with the artwork! We’ve got the artwork everywhere and we all want to be a bit more camoflagued up on that weekend. There’ll be lots of tents, lots of camping and lots of shorts! I wanted to put together a festival that would include bands that have been in the industry almost as long as I have, and although now ignored by the big record companies, they are still loyal to their music, fans and their roots. Morris, Joanna (12 December 2016). "Good manners of Teesside trio save legendary ska act Bad Manners' 40th anniversary tour". thenorthernecho.co.uk. They have been fronted from day one by Buster Bloodvessel, one of the biggest voices in show business with the personality to match!

Q. If all the bands in the Badfest line-up still tour and still attract loads and loads of fans, why are they largely ignored by media and record companies? Buster: We were originally booked to play the club that they’ve got here. It was a nice Christmas do and it wasn’t over sold but we saw the potential here to have a brilliant festival. Nobody else has probably ever seen this potential and we want to be the first to really set it alight really because I’m sure in years to come this will be a well-known place – certainly a landmark. Bad Manners are an English two-tone and ska band led by frontman Buster Bloodvessel. Early appearances included Top of the Pops and the live film documentary Dance Craze (1981). They were at their most popular during the early 1980s, during a period when other ska revival bands such as Madness, the Specials and the Selecter filled the charts. Bad Manners spent 111 weeks in the UK Singles Chart between 1980 and 1983, and they also achieved chart success with their first four studio albums, with Ska 'n' B (1980), Loonee Tunes! (1980), and Gosh It's ... Bad Manners (1981) being their biggest hits.

Buster: It was yes and people worry that I’m not the same man that I was but I can assure them I’m probably a better man than I’ve ever been! Then it’s going to go on each year and I can guarantee it will probably triple and quadruple by the time we’re a blink away. It’s going to be a great event – everyone should be there!

One of the main reasons for their notoriety was their outlandish huge-tongued and shaven-headed frontman, Buster Bloodvessel. His manic exploits got them banned from the British BBC TV chart show Top of the Pops, for painting his head red. [5] The band was also banned from Italian TV after Bloodvessel mooned a concert audience on live television at the 1983 Sanremo Music Festival, [6] after being told that the Pope was watching on TV. [5] [6] After five years without releasing any new material, Bad Manners issued their Heavy Petting album in 1997. Six years later, Buster set up another record label and the band released Stupidity on Bad Records in 2003. Buster: It’s a silly idea I had quite sometime ago. I just wanted to get alternative live bands to play together. I’ve been doing festivals for a long time now and I just think that we needed our own festival so Badfest came about.

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When, in the early 80s the first single I ever bought was Bad Manners’ ‘Just a Feeling’ (for 65p!), little did I know that some 25 years later I would meet up with the bands larger than life frontman Buster Bloodvessel in a disused airfield in deepest Bedfordshire! Break-up and reformation [ edit ] Buster Bloodvessel performing with Bad Manners at Club Citta, Japan, 1991