Bad Manners

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Bad Manners are a long-lived English second-wave ska band.

Contents 1 Career 2 Recent history 3 Selected discography 3.1 Singles 3.2 Albums 3.3 Compilations 4 Audio samples 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Career

Fronted by Buster Bloodvessel, the band was formed in 1976 while the members were at school together. None of the members had any formal musical training, not even the ability to play any instruments.They were popular during the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period when lots of similar ska bands filled the charts. Some of their hits include "My Girl Lollipop", "Lip Up Fatty", "Special Brew" and "Ne-Ne-Na-Na-Na-Na-Nu-Nu". One of the main reasons for their notoriety was because of their outlandish, shaven headed, front man. Buster's exploits got them banned from the British TV chart show Top of the Pops ^{[citation needed]}(which included dressing as Henry VIII for the song "Lorraine", plus dressing in a can-can dancer's dress to promote their single "Can-Can"). They were also banned from Italian TV when Buster had decided after a particularly successful concert that he should moon the crowd, having been told that the Pope was watching on TV.^[1]

Despite having scored many hits and featuring prominently in the UK charts of the early 1980s, Bad Manners is perhaps most renowned for their song "Special Brew". The song is ambiguous in meaning, but the most common interpretation of the song is that it is a love song to the famous alcoholic drink after which it appears to be named.

[edit] Recent history

More recently, Bad Manners has dropped out of the charts, yet they have gained increasing popularity as a live band, and are touring to this day.

They now headline their own annual music festival - 'Badfest'. This festival features ska, mod and punk bands from the 1980s to the present day.

In 2003 trombone player David Welton quit the band to continue his career as a music teacher at Greensward College.

[edit] Selected discography

[edit] Singles

• "Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu" (Feb 1980) UK #28
• "Lip Up Fatty" (Jun 1980) UK #15
• "Special Brew" (Sep 1980) UK #3
• "Lorraine" (Dec 1980) UK #21
• "Just A Feeling" (Mar 1981) UK #13
• "Can Can" (Jun 1981) UK #3
• "Walking In The Sunshine" (Sep 1981) UK #10
• "Buona Sera (Don't Be Angry)" (Nov 1981) UK #34
• "Got No Brains" (May 1982) UK #44
• "My Girl Lollipop (My Boy Lollipop)" (Jul 1982) UK #9
• "Samson And Delilah" (Oct 1982) UK #58 - (contains the classic lyric, "You can't cut my hair, 'cos I haven't any there".)
• "That'll Do Nicely" (Apr 1983) UK #49
• "Blue Summer" (1985)
• "Skaville UK" (May 1989)

[edit] Albums

• Ska 'n' B (1980) UK #34
• Loonee Tunes! (1981) UK #36
• Gosh It's... Bad Manners (1981) UK #18
• Forging Ahead (1982) UK #78
• Mental Notes (1985)
• Live and Loud (1987)
• Eat The Beat (1988)
• Return Of The Ugly (1989)
• Fat Sound (1993)
• Skinhead (1994)
• Heavy Petting (1997)
• Don't Knock The Baldhead (1997)
• Viva La Ska Revolution (1998)
• Rare and Fatty (1999)
• Stupidity (2003)
• Skinhead Love Affair (2006)

[edit] Compilations

• The Height of Bad Manners (1983) UK #23
• Anthology - Bad Manners (1989)
• Fatty Fatty (1993)
• The Collection (1998)
• Magnetism (2000)
• Special Brew: The Platinum Collection (2005)

[edit] Audio samples

[edit] External links

• The Official Bad Manners site
• Bad Manners Music Videos
• Bad Manners biography at All Music Guide website

[edit] References

• Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums - 19th Edition - ISBN 1-904994-10-5

1. ^ http://www.badmanners.net/lard/history.html