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Break-up and reformation [ edit ] Buster Bloodvessel performing with Bad Manners at Club Citta, Japan, 1991 Buster: We’re not sure about figures at all at the moment but we’re hoping for about 5,000 people for our first event and that to us seems like a really realistic figure to aim for. They [other bands] all have their bouts of doing maybe more gigs than us for two or three years but not 30 years. Not even the Rolling Stones have done that much. And they fly everywhere and it’s all luxurious! 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. 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!”

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] 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.

From their beginnings as a school group in 1976, throughout their chart success of the 80s (11 top 20 hits) right up to the present day this troupe of ska troubadours have maintained a punishing live schedule and deserve their billing as 'the hardest working band on the planet'. Q. This festival is kind of a celebration of the amount of time that you’ve been in the business isn’t it? Buster: For us it’s just like a big holiday and it always has been and that’s how we like to keep it. So I would say that we do roundabout 200-250 gigs a year and have done every year and no other band has ever come near that! We’ve always had such a good time that we just want to do another one as soon as one's finished!

I feel a bit like I’m on a mission like Billy Butlins! I’d like this weekend to have that much appeal so that people would say “yes – you’ve almost achieved Billy Butlins status” which is to encourage people to come here for the weekend and have a blooming good time! 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. Q. So, what bands are confirmed? "Anybody who comes along will just go to themselves – “Wow I can’t wait for next year!"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)