Bad Manners
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Bad Manners are an English
2 Tone
ska
band
. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the UK pop scene through their bald outsized frontman's on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops
exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze
.
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 Gosh It's... Bad Manners
, Loonee Tunes!
and Ska 'n' B
being their biggest hits.
(born Douglas Trendle), the band was formed in 1976 while the members were together at Woodberry Down
Comprehensive School near Manor House
, North London
. They commemorated the 1981 closure of the school on the back sleeve of their Gosh It's... Bad Manners
album.
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
.
Some of their more notable hits
include "My Girl Lollipop", "Lip Up Fatty
", "Can Can", "Special Brew" and "Walking In The Sunshine". 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
. The band was also banned from Italian
TV
after Bloodvessel mooned
a concert audience, after being told that the Pope
was watching on TV.
Bad Manners left Magnet Records in 1983, and Telstar Records
released a compilation album, The Height of Bad Manners, which reached number 23 in the UK Albums Chart
. The album was assisted with a television advertisement
promotion, and it brought the band back to the attention of the media and the British public.
The group then went on to sign a contract with Portrait Records
in the United States
and Mental Notes
was released in 1985. For two years the band toured continuously all over the world but decided to disband in 1986.
in the back garden of Buster's former home in Spring Hill, London. After Blue Beat closed in 1990, Bad Manners were without a recording contract
, but still continued to tour. In 1992, they signed a deal with Pork Pie Records and Fat Sound
was released in Europe. The album was initially intended to be released in the UK on Blue Beat.
In 1995, Buster Bloodvessel moved to Margate
, and opened a hotel on the seafront called Fatty Towers, which catered for people with huge appetites. While living in Margate, he was a regular spectator at Margate F.C.
, and Bad Manners sponsored the club for one season. Fatty Towers closed in 1998 and did not re-open despite a facelift. After its closure, he moved back to London.
During the late 1990s, a Third Wave ska revival renewed interest in the band and Bad Manners released Heavy Petting
on Moon Ska Records in the United States
in 1997. Six years later, Buster set up another record label and the band released Stupidity on Bad Records in 2003.
Bad Manners appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks
in the 2004 Christmas Special, performing festive songs to Phill Jupitus
' team. (Jupitus is a fan of the band, and Buster Bloodvessel had appeared as a panellist on the show earlier that year).
Buster Bloodvessel is the only original member left in Bad Manners
, but the harmonica player, Winston Bazoomies, is an 'honorary member' of the band and he has a Facebook
fanpage set up in his honour and he currently lives in North London.
Martin Stewart left Bad Manners in 1991, and performed and recorded with The Selecter
for fifteen years. Louis Alphonso lives in Paris while David Farren left in 1986, after the band's contract with Portrait Records finished. A gifted artist, he designed the original band logo, and painted the front cover of the Gosh It's... Bad Manners album. He currently performs in a tribute outfit called The Rollin' Stoned. Chris Kane is a session musician
living in Wanstead. He became a music teacher during the 1990s and also performed with The Jordanaires
. Brian Tuitt also left the band in 1986, and he runs his own rehearsal studios and lives in Kent, while Andrew Marson, another band member who left the same year, has worked as a carpenter in and around London. Paul Hyman lives in Enfield, and has often guested with his trumpet
with the ska band, Too Many Crooks.
Bad Manners headlined their own annual music festival known as Bad Fest in 2005 and 2006 at RAF Twinwood Farm
. This festival featured ska, mod-related and punk rock
bands from the 1980s to the present.
Cherry Red Records released the band's first four albums, Ska 'n' B, Loonee Tunes!, Gosh It's... Bad Manners and Forging Ahead on CD
for the first time with added bonus tracks. The albums were issued on their sister label, Pressure Drop.
In 2011, Bad Manners performed a world tour and played a number of shows in the USA, France, Canada, Slovakia
, Germany, Japan, Australia
and Spain. The group will also be playing a number of festive dates in the United Kingdom
.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
2 Tone
2 Tone
2 Tone is a music genre created in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s by fusing elements of ska, punk rock, rocksteady, reggae, and New Wave. It was called 2 Tone because most of the bands were signed to 2 Tone Records at some point. Other labels associated with the 2 Tone sound were Stiff...
ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
band
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the UK pop scene through their bald outsized frontman's on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...
exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze
Dance Craze
Dance Craze is a 1981 British documentary film about the English 2 Tone music genre.The film was directed by Joe Massot, who originally wanted to do a film only about the band Madness, who he met during their first US tour. Massot later changed his plans to include the whole 2 Tone movement...
.
They were at their most popular during the early 1980s, during a period when other ska revival bands such as Madness
Madness (band)
In 1979, the band recorded the Lee Thompson composition "The Prince". The song, like the band's name, paid homage to their idol, Prince Buster. The song was released through 2 Tone Records, the label of The Specials founder Jerry Dammers. The song was a surprise hit, peaking in the UK music charts...
, The Specials
The Specials
The Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups...
and The Selecter
The Selecter
The Selecter are a 2 Tone ska revival band from Coventry, England, formed in mid 1979.Like many other bands in the ska revival movement, The Selecter featured a racially diverse line-up. Their lyrics featured themes connected to politics and marijuana, set to strong melodies and a danceable beat...
filled the charts
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
. Bad Manners spent 111 weeks in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
between 1980 and 1983, and they also achieved chart success with their first four studio albums with Gosh It's... Bad Manners
Gosh It's... Bad Manners
Gosh It's... Bad Manners is the third album by Bad Manners from the year 1981 and their most popular and successful album, peaking at number 18 on the UK album chart. The band had originally formed in 1976 while the members were together at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School, North London...
, Loonee Tunes!
Loonee Tunes!
Loonee Tunes! is the second album by Bad Manners, from the year 1980. In keeping with the format of their first album, the first track is an instrumental. It reached number 36 on the UK album chart.-Track listing:* All songs by Bad Manners unless noted....
and Ska 'n' B
Ska 'n' B
Ska'n'B is the first album by Bad Manners from the year 1980. It reached number 34 on the UK album chart.-Track listing:*All songs by Bad Manners unless noted.# "Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu" - 2:35# "Here Comes The Major" - 2:54...
being their biggest hits.
Formation
Fronted by Buster BloodvesselBuster Bloodvessel
Douglas Trendle , better known as Buster Bloodvessel, is an English singer and the frontman of the ska revival band Bad Manners...
(born Douglas Trendle), the band was formed in 1976 while the members were together at Woodberry Down
Woodberry Down School
Woodberry Down Compehensive School was located off the Seven Sisters Road in the Manor House area of North London. The now defunct secondary school verges on three boroughs Hackney, Haringey and Islington. The school was opened in 1955, closing in 1981 when it was amalgamated with Clissold School...
Comprehensive School near Manor House
Manor House, London
Manor House is a district of North London.-Location:Built up in the mid 19th century as part of an area called Brownswood Park, today, like other areas of London, it is a district without a formal town centre, but distant enough from other town centres that it has come to be recognised as an area...
, North London
North London
North London is the northern part of London, England. It is an imprecise description and the area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes. Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South...
. They commemorated the 1981 closure of the school on the back sleeve of their Gosh It's... Bad Manners
Gosh It's... Bad Manners
Gosh It's... Bad Manners is the third album by Bad Manners from the year 1981 and their most popular and successful album, peaking at number 18 on the UK album chart. The band had originally formed in 1976 while the members were together at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School, North London...
album.
Career
After becoming popular in their native London, Bad Manners signed to Magnet RecordsMagnet Records
Magnet Records was a record label started in 1973 by Michael Levy and acquired by Warner Bros. Records in 1988 for an estimated £10m.Artists on the label included Alvin Stardust, Matchbox, Adrian Baker, Silver Convention, Guys 'n' Dolls, Darts, Kissing the Pink, Bad Manners, David D'Or, Blue Zoo...
in 1980, and became regular guests on television shows such as Tiswas
Tiswas
Tiswas was a Saturday morning children's British television series which ran from 5 January 1974 to 3 April 1982 and was produced for the ITV network by ATV Network Limited....
. The band also appeared on The British Music Awards (1981) and Cheggers Plays Pop
Cheggers Plays Pop
Cheggers Plays Pop was a British children's television show broadcast from 10 April 1978 to 7 November 1986. The show's format consisted of a series of physical and mental challenges undertaken by two teams of children representing their respective schools, together with studio performances by...
. In 1985, they also appeared on The Time of Your Life, hosted by Noel Edmonds
Noel Edmonds
Noel Ernest Edmonds, is an English broadcaster and executive, who made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He has presented many light entertainment television programmes, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, Top of the Pops, The Late, Late Breakfast Show, Telly Addicts, Noel's Saturday...
.
Some of their more notable hits
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
include "My Girl Lollipop", "Lip Up Fatty
Lip Up Fatty
"Lip Up Fatty" is a single released by the ska band Bad Manners in June 1980, which got to #15 in the UK Singles Chart. It is one of a number of songs by Bad Manners about 'being fat', ....
", "Can Can", "Special Brew" and "Walking In The Sunshine". One of the main reasons for their notoriety, was their outlandish huge-tongued and shaven-headed frontman, Buster Bloodvessel
Buster Bloodvessel
Douglas Trendle , better known as Buster Bloodvessel, is an English singer and the frontman of the ska revival band Bad Manners...
. His manic exploits got them banned from the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
BBC TV
BBC Television
BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation, which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927, has produced television programmes from its own studios since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television...
chart show Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...
. The band was also banned from Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
TV
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
after Bloodvessel mooned
Mooning
Mooning is the act of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g., by lowering the backside of one's trousers and underpants, usually bending over, whether also exposing the genitals or not...
a concert audience, after being told that the Pope
Pope
The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, a position that makes him the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle...
was watching on TV.
Bad Manners left Magnet Records in 1983, and Telstar Records
Telstar Records
Telstar Records was a record label founded in 1982 by Sean O'Brien and Neil Palmer with a government loan of £120,000. It was founded as a specialist compilation marketing label and had hits with a range of compilation franchises such as the Deep Heat, Kaos Theory and 100% ranges...
released a compilation album, The Height of Bad Manners, which reached number 23 in the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
. The album was assisted with a television advertisement
Television advertisement
A television advertisement or television commercial, often just commercial, advert, ad, or ad-film – is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization that conveys a message, typically one intended to market a product...
promotion, and it brought the band back to the attention of the media and the British public.
The group then went on to sign a contract with Portrait Records
Portrait Records
Portrait Records was a sister label of Epic Records and later of Columbia Records. Cyndi Lauper and Sade signed with Portrait, but their contracts were absorbed by Epic after that incarnation of the label was shuttered....
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and Mental Notes
Mental Notes (Bad Manners album)
Mental Notes is the fifth studio album by Bad Manners, released in 1985 .-Track listing:*All songs by Bad Manners unless noted.# "What the Papers Say" - 2:54# "Blue Summer" - 3:42# "Body Talk" - 3:41# "Tossin' in My Sleep" - 3:50...
was released in 1985. For two years the band toured continuously all over the world but decided to disband in 1986.
Break-up and reformation
Buster reformed the band with original members Louis Alphonso, Martin Stewart and Winston Bazoomies. Another original member, Chris Kane, also remained in the band, but left in 1990. In 1988, the band licensed the name and logo of Blue Beat Records, and set up office in a 50 ft bargeBarge
A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. Some barges are not self-propelled and need to be towed by tugboats or pushed by towboats...
in the back garden of Buster's former home in Spring Hill, London. After Blue Beat closed in 1990, Bad Manners were without a recording contract
Recording contract
A recording contract is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist , where the artist makes a record for the label to sell and promote...
, but still continued to tour. In 1992, they signed a deal with Pork Pie Records and Fat Sound
Fat Sound
Fat Sound is the seventh studio album by Bad Manners, released in 1992 on Pork Pie Records.-Track listing:All songs by Bad Manners unless noted.# "Mambo/Ska No...
was released in Europe. The album was initially intended to be released in the UK on Blue Beat.
In 1995, Buster Bloodvessel moved to Margate
Margate
-Demography:As of the 2001 UK census, Margate had a population of 40,386.The ethnicity of the town was 97.1% white, 1.0% mixed race, 0.5% black, 0.8% Asian, 0.6% Chinese or other ethnicity....
, and opened a hotel on the seafront called Fatty Towers, which catered for people with huge appetites. While living in Margate, he was a regular spectator at Margate F.C.
Margate F.C.
Margate Football Club is an English football team based in the seaside resort of Margate, Kent, currently playing in the Isthmian League Premier Division. The club was known for a number of years during the 1980s as Thanet United....
, and Bad Manners sponsored the club for one season. Fatty Towers closed in 1998 and did not re-open despite a facelift. After its closure, he moved back to London.
During the late 1990s, a Third Wave ska revival renewed interest in the band and Bad Manners released Heavy Petting
Heavy Petting (album)
Heavy Petting, also known as Don't Knock the Baldhead, is the eighth studio album by Bad Manners, released in 1997 .-Track listing:* All songs by Bad Manners unless noted.# "Don't Knock the Baldheads"...
on Moon Ska Records in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in 1997. Six years later, Buster set up another record label and the band released Stupidity on Bad Records in 2003.
Bad Manners appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game television show with a pop music theme, currently without a permanent presenter. It stars Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding as team captains. The show is produced by Talkback Thames for the BBC, and is usually aired on BBC Two...
in the 2004 Christmas Special, performing festive songs to Phill Jupitus
Phill Jupitus
Phillip Christopher Jupitus is an English stand-up and improvised comedian, actor, performance poet, musician and podcaster....
' team. (Jupitus is a fan of the band, and Buster Bloodvessel had appeared as a panellist on the show earlier that year).
Buster Bloodvessel is the only original member left in Bad Manners
Bad Manners
Bad Manners are an English 2 Tone ska band. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the UK pop scene through their bald outsized frontman's on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze.They were at...
, but the harmonica player, Winston Bazoomies, is an 'honorary member' of the band and he has a Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
fanpage set up in his honour and he currently lives in North London.
Martin Stewart left Bad Manners in 1991, and performed and recorded with The Selecter
The Selecter
The Selecter are a 2 Tone ska revival band from Coventry, England, formed in mid 1979.Like many other bands in the ska revival movement, The Selecter featured a racially diverse line-up. Their lyrics featured themes connected to politics and marijuana, set to strong melodies and a danceable beat...
for fifteen years. Louis Alphonso lives in Paris while David Farren left in 1986, after the band's contract with Portrait Records finished. A gifted artist, he designed the original band logo, and painted the front cover of the Gosh It's... Bad Manners album. He currently performs in a tribute outfit called The Rollin' Stoned. Chris Kane is a session musician
Session musician
Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...
living in Wanstead. He became a music teacher during the 1990s and also performed with The Jordanaires
The Jordanaires
The Jordanaires are an American vocal quartet, which formed as a gospel group in 1948. They are best known for providing vocal background for Elvis Presley, in live appearances and recordings from 1956 to 1972...
. Brian Tuitt also left the band in 1986, and he runs his own rehearsal studios and lives in Kent, while Andrew Marson, another band member who left the same year, has worked as a carpenter in and around London. Paul Hyman lives in Enfield, and has often guested with his trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
with the ska band, Too Many Crooks.
Bad Manners headlined their own annual music festival known as Bad Fest in 2005 and 2006 at RAF Twinwood Farm
RAF Twinwood Farm
-Other RAF Squadrons:*No. 26 Squadron RAF*No. 268 Squadron RAF*No. 613 Squadron RAF*No. 169 Squadron RAF*No. 239 Squadron RAFIn March 1943 P51 Mustangs belonging to 164, 169, 239 and 208 Squadrons RAF engaged in Operation Spartan which occurred between 1 and 12 March 1943 was conducted across...
. This festival featured ska, mod-related and punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
bands from the 1980s to the present.
Cherry Red Records released the band's first four albums, Ska 'n' B, Loonee Tunes!, Gosh It's... Bad Manners and Forging Ahead on CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
for the first time with added bonus tracks. The albums were issued on their sister label, Pressure Drop.
In 2011, Bad Manners performed a world tour and played a number of shows in the USA, France, Canada, Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
, Germany, Japan, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and Spain. The group will also be playing a number of festive dates in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
.
Studio albums
| Year | Album | Record Label | UK | Certification Certification Certification refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization. This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit... |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Ska 'n' B Ska 'n' B Ska'n'B is the first album by Bad Manners from the year 1980. It reached number 34 on the UK album chart.-Track listing:*All songs by Bad Manners unless noted.# "Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu" - 2:35# "Here Comes The Major" - 2:54... |
Magnet Magnet Records Magnet Records was a record label started in 1973 by Michael Levy and acquired by Warner Bros. Records in 1988 for an estimated £10m.Artists on the label included Alvin Stardust, Matchbox, Adrian Baker, Silver Convention, Guys 'n' Dolls, Darts, Kissing the Pink, Bad Manners, David D'Or, Blue Zoo... |
34 | UK British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... : Silver |
| 1980 | Loonee Tunes! Loonee Tunes! Loonee Tunes! is the second album by Bad Manners, from the year 1980. In keeping with the format of their first album, the first track is an instrumental. It reached number 36 on the UK album chart.-Track listing:* All songs by Bad Manners unless noted.... |
Magnet | 36 | UK British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... : Silver |
| 1981 | Gosh It's... Bad Manners Gosh It's... Bad Manners Gosh It's... Bad Manners is the third album by Bad Manners from the year 1981 and their most popular and successful album, peaking at number 18 on the UK album chart. The band had originally formed in 1976 while the members were together at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School, North London... |
Magnet | 18 | UK British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... : Silver |
| 1982 | Forging Ahead Forging Ahead Forging Ahead is the fourth album by Bad Manners from the year 1982. It was the group's last album on Magnet Records. The picture sleeve to the right, is of the American edition of the album that was released two years later in 1984, with a slightly different track list to the official UK issue.-... |
Magnet | 78 | – |
| 1985 | Mental Notes Mental Notes (Bad Manners album) Mental Notes is the fifth studio album by Bad Manners, released in 1985 .-Track listing:*All songs by Bad Manners unless noted.# "What the Papers Say" - 2:54# "Blue Summer" - 3:42# "Body Talk" - 3:41# "Tossin' in My Sleep" - 3:50... |
Portrait Portrait Records Portrait Records was a sister label of Epic Records and later of Columbia Records. Cyndi Lauper and Sade signed with Portrait, but their contracts were absorbed by Epic after that incarnation of the label was shuttered.... |
– | – |
| 1989 | Return of the Ugly Return of the Ugly Return of the Ugly is the sixth studio album by Bad Manners, released in 1989 . It was the band's first release on an independent label.-Track listing:* All songs by Bad Manners unless noted.# "Skaville UK" - 2:33... |
Blue Beat | – | – |
| 1992 | Fat Sound Fat Sound Fat Sound is the seventh studio album by Bad Manners, released in 1992 on Pork Pie Records.-Track listing:All songs by Bad Manners unless noted.# "Mambo/Ska No... |
Pork Pie | – | – |
| 1997 | Heavy Petting Heavy Petting (album) Heavy Petting, also known as Don't Knock the Baldhead, is the eighth studio album by Bad Manners, released in 1997 .-Track listing:* All songs by Bad Manners unless noted.# "Don't Knock the Baldheads"... |
Moon Moon Ska World Moon Ska World, formerly known as Moon Ska Europe, was formed in 1998 as the European sister label of the defunct record label Moon Ska Records. It is based in the United Kingdom. The name change was revealed through the Moon Ska Europe website in 2006... |
– | – |
| 2003 | Stupidity | Bad | – | – |
Singles
| Title | Released | UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
Weeks in chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu" | February 1980 | 28 | 14 |
| "Lip Up Fatty Lip Up Fatty "Lip Up Fatty" is a single released by the ska band Bad Manners in June 1980, which got to #15 in the UK Singles Chart. It is one of a number of songs by Bad Manners about 'being fat', .... " |
June 1980 | 15 | 14 |
| "Special Brew" | September 1980 | 3 | 13 |
| "Lorraine" | December 1980 | 21 | 12 |
| "Just A Feeling" | March 1981 | 13 | 9 |
| "Can Can" | June 1981 | 3 | 13 |
| "Walking In The Sunshine" | September 1981 | 10 | 9 |
| "The R'n'B Party Four" (EP) | November 1981 | 34 | 9 |
| "Got No Brains" | May 1982 | 44 | 5 |
| "My Girl Lollipop (My Boy Lollipop My Boy Lollipop "My Boy Lollipop" is a song written in the mid-1950s by Robert Spencer of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs, and usually credited to Spencer, Morris Levy, and Johnny Roberts. It was first recorded in New York in 1956 by Barbie Gaye... )" |
July 1982 | 9 | 7 |
| "Samson And Delilah" | October 1982 | 58 | 3 |
| "That'll Do Nicely" | April 1983 | 49 | 3 |
| "Blue Summer" | August 1985 | – | – |
| "What The Papers Say" | December 1985 | – | – |
| "Tossin' In My Sleep" | March 1986 | – | – |
| "Skaville UK" | May 1989 | – | – |
| "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" | July 1989 | – | – |
| "Christmas Time Again" | November 1989 | – | – |
| "Fatty's Back in Town" (EP) | September 1995 | – | – |
| "Millennium Knees Up" | December 1999 | – | – |
Compilations and reissues
- Bad Manners (MCA RecordsMCA RecordsMCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...
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) (1982) - KlassKlass (album)Klass is a compilation by Bad Manners, released in 1983.-Track listing:# "Fatty Fatty"# "Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu"# "Just a Feeling"# "Doris"# "Special Brew"# "Echo Gone Wrong"# "Lip Up Fatty"# "Ivor the Engine"# "Wooly Bully"# "Lorraine"...
(MCA Records / U.S.) (1983) - The Height of Bad Manners (Telstar RecordsTelstar RecordsTelstar Records was a record label founded in 1982 by Sean O'Brien and Neil Palmer with a government loan of £120,000. It was founded as a specialist compilation marketing label and had hits with a range of compilation franchises such as the Deep Heat, Kaos Theory and 100% ranges...
) (1983) UKUK Albums ChartThe UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
#23 - Can Can (Hallmark RecordsHallmark RecordsHallmark Records is a British record label. It was founded in the 1960s and recently revived. The revived company has since become a major publisher of budget CDs in the UK, issuing both public domain and copyrighted material. The company has also re-issued some of its albums from the 1960s and...
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) (1986) - Live And Loud (Link Records) (1987)
- Return of The Ugly (Relativity / U.S.) (1991)
- Return of The Ugly (Elsoldun / France) (1992)
- Fatty Fatty (Elsoldun / France) (1993)
- Greatest Hits Live (Dojo Records) (1993)
- Fat Sound (Triple X Records / U.S.) (1993)
- Skinhead (Lagoon Records / France) (1994)
- Inner London Violence Live (Lagoon Records / France) (1994)
- This Is Ska (Dojo Records) (1995)
- Return of The Ugly (Dojo Records) (1995)
- Forging Ahead (CD re-issue / Epic RecordsEpic RecordsEpic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...
/ U.S.) (1995) - Rare (T - Leaf Records) (1996)
- Lip Up Fatty (Castle Records / U.S.) (1996)
- Can Can (Tin Box CD) (Harry May Records) (1997)
- Anthology (FGL / France) (1997)
- Don't Knock the Baldhead: LiveDon't Knock the Baldhead: LiveDon't Knock the Baldhead! Live is a live album by Bad Manners, released in 1997. The album was re-released in 2005 as Feel Like Jumping! Greatest Hits Live!-Track listing:# "Echo 4 + 2"# "This Is Ska"# "My Girl Lollipop"# "Fatty Fatty"...
(Receiver Records) (1997) - Return of The Ugly (Triple X / U.S.) (1998)
- Viva La Ska RevolutionViva la Ska Revolution-Track listing:# "Skaville UK" # "Sally Brown" # "Bonanza Ska"# "Return of the Ugly"# "Skinhead Love Affair"# "Non Shrewd"# "Big 5"# "Stampede"# "Skinhead Girl"# "Mafia"# "Pipeline"# "Viva la Ska Revolution"...
(1998) (Snapper) - The CollectionThe Collection (Bad Manners album)-Track listing:# "Skaville UK"# "Sally Brown"# "Return of the Ugly"# "Fatty Fatty"# "Bonanza Ska"# "Special Brew"# "Just a Feeling" # "Lorraine" # "Walking in the Sunshine" # "Can Can" # "Lip up Fatty"...
(Cleopatra Records / America) (1998) - Mental Notes (CD re-issue / Captain Mod) (1999)
- This Is Ska ! (Moon Ska Europe) (1999)
- Eat The Beat (Moon Ska Europe) (1999)
- Rare & FattyRare & Fatty-Track listing:# "Paranoid"# "Devil's Dub"# "Tighten Up"# "Jezebel"# "Elizabethan Reggae" # "Boots"# "Double Barrel"# "Are You Monster?"# "Why Wait"# "Help Me"# "Shakin' up "# "When Will I See You Again"...
(re – issue / Moon Records / U.S.) (1999) - The Singles Album (Crash Records / Germany) (2000)
- Ska 'N B (CD re-issue / DSS Records / Austria) (2000)
- Magnetism : The Best of Bad Manners (Warner Music) (2000)
- The Best, The Baddest And The Ugliest (Ceresco / France) (2000)
- Buster Bloodvessel's Bad Manners (Time Music) (2000)
- Ska Party (Platinum Records) (2000)
- Bad Manners (GFS) (2000)
- Special BrewSpecial Brew (album)Special Brew is a compilation album by the English 2 Tone ska revival band, Bad Manners. It was released in 2000.-Track listing:# "Special Brew"# "Lip Up Fatty"# "Skaville UK"# "Sally Brown"# "Buffalo Ska"# "Since You've Gone Away"...
(Harry May Records) (2000) - Anthology (Eagle) (2001)
- Best of Bad Manners Live (Pegasus) (2002)
- Oi Our Greatest Hits (Blitz) (2003)
- Bastards (Culture Press) (2003)
- All Favourites (Brilliant Records / Netherlands) (2003)
- Bad Manners 15 Years Jubilee Edition – CDCompact DiscThe Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
Box set (Pork Pie / Germany) (2004) - Bad Manners Box Set Collection (10 Themed Albums / Bad Records) (2004)
- Special Brew: The Platinum Collection (Warner Platinum) (2005)
- Bad Manners Live! (Crown) 2005
- Feel Like Jumping: Greatest Hits Live! (Sanctuary RecordsSanctuary RecordsSanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...
) (2005) - Can CanCan Can (album)Can Can is a live album by Bad Manners, released in 2006.-Track listing:# "In the Mood"# "Echo 4 + 2"# "This Is Ska"# "My Girl Lollipop"# "Fatty Fatty"# "Black Night"# "Feel Like Jumping"# "Walking in the Sunshine"# "Skaville U.K."...
(Digipak) (Snapper Music) (2006) - Stupidity (SOS Records) (U.S. edition) (2007)
- Walking In The Sunshine: The Best of Bad Manners (Warner Music UK / Demon Music Group) (2008) UKUK Albums ChartThe UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
#196 - Bad Manners (Replay) (2011)
- The Bad Manners Collection (Marathon / OMP) (2011)
- Can Can (Vanilla / OMP) (2011)
- Special Brew (Vanilla / OMP) (2011)
- Short But Sweet (Dave Cash Collection / OMP) (2011)
- Ska 'n' BSka 'n' BSka'n'B is the first album by Bad Manners from the year 1980. It reached number 34 on the UK album chart.-Track listing:*All songs by Bad Manners unless noted.# "Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu" - 2:35# "Here Comes The Major" - 2:54...
(CD re-issue / Cherry Red Records) (2011) - Loonee Tunes!Loonee Tunes!Loonee Tunes! is the second album by Bad Manners, from the year 1980. In keeping with the format of their first album, the first track is an instrumental. It reached number 36 on the UK album chart.-Track listing:* All songs by Bad Manners unless noted....
(CD re-issue / Cherry Red Records) (2011) - Gosh It's... Bad MannersGosh It's... Bad MannersGosh It's... Bad Manners is the third album by Bad Manners from the year 1981 and their most popular and successful album, peaking at number 18 on the UK album chart. The band had originally formed in 1976 while the members were together at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School, North London...
(CD re-issue / Cherry Red Records) (2011) - Forging AheadForging AheadForging Ahead is the fourth album by Bad Manners from the year 1982. It was the group's last album on Magnet Records. The picture sleeve to the right, is of the American edition of the album that was released two years later in 1984, with a slightly different track list to the official UK issue.-...
(CD re-issue / Cherry Red Records) (2011) - The Best Cover Album (Ska In The World / Japan) (2011)
External links
- Bad Manners official MySpace
- [ Bad Manners biography at Allmusic website]
- Badmannersontour.com