…to the other guitarist! Happy birthday to Dan ‘Danny’ Fenton today hope you have a fantastic day Mr F Junior x
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News We’d like to wish many happy returns of the day to Ed Bazalgette. Hope you have a great day Mr B x Features  Forty years ago this week saw the release of the band’s sixth (and final) single ‘Jimmie Jones’, taken from the ‘Magnets’ LP, which Liberty had decided to commission a promo video for. Clearly they felt that it had a better chance of radio & TV coverage and commercial success compared to the previous single ‘Spiders’. We thought that it would be interesting to focus on the making of the JJ video with anecdotes and memories from those who were there on the day, including all four band members. Continue reading Making the Jimmie Jones videoNews  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. The band even secured an appearance on Top Of The Pops with the single which you can watch here. Sadly, neither the video nor the TOTP appearance helped the single rise above that fateful 44 chart position and the band called it a day within a few months of its release. Listen to Jimmie Jones on Spotify here News Happy birthday to the big bloke behind the drums, Michael Bowes, have a great day x News 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 News The band marked their regrouping after a year apart by working on a 2021 remix of the first single ‘Together’ from the last album. Once again, they worked with the original producer Steve Levine on the remix and he added brass making it fresher & edgier. Together is now bigger, badder and brassier! Available from all major Download platforms April 16th Update 16/4: now available to download here Gigs The band return to Guildford, their spiritual home, on the 40th anniversary of New Clear Days tour this autumn. They play at the Boileroom on Thursday 14th October and tickets are onsale now here  News Sadly, due to the pandemic & subsequent lockdowns, it’s now exactly a year to the day since the band graced a stage. The last show was with From The Jam in Leamington Spa which beat the first lockdown by a few days. Hopefully, with the gradual easing of restrictions, life can get back to normality very soon and we will have the long-overdue return of live music.  News We have just been informed that the forthcoming May and June dates with From The Jam for the Settings Sons 40th anniversary tour have been postponed. So far, six of the nine dates have been rescheduled to later on this year although The Vapors are no longer supporting at the Loughborough gig. All tickets remain valid for the rescheduled dates and we will bring you info on the remaining three gigs (Hastings, Wrexham & Bury St Edmunds) when we have it. |
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