The Vapors have been confirmed to appear at the rescheduled Stone Valley North festival, which takes place at Stanhope Castle in Co. Durham on the 24th-26th September this year. The Vapors are playing on the Sunday and more details & tickets can be found here… Read the rest

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

…to the other guitarist! Happy birthday to Dan ‘Danny’ Fenton today hope you have a fantastic day Mr F Junior x… Read the rest

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

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