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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'. Buster: It’s a silly idea I had quite sometime ago. I just wanted to get alternative live bands to play together. I’ve been doing festivals for a long time now and I just think that we needed our own festival so Badfest came about. Buster’s “Special Brew” set to entertain thousands! Bad Manners’ ebullient front man Buster Bloodvessel is celebrating an incredible 30 years in the business by organising Badfest, a three day music festival to be held at Twinwood in Bedfordshire this July. Katy Lewis met him. 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!” Buster: My side of this is definitely promotions and making it a great event. I’ve networked all around places like the Midlands and the North and the West and London of course. That is a place where we are really going to aim at bringing people out for the weekend which is always a good thing to do – people need to get out of London.

His huge personality and big voice were matched only by his gargantuan proportions but even now, after losing an incredible 18 stone, Buster is still as larger than life as he ever was! And as he has the same boundless enthusiasm, unbounded energy and vigour for this project that is a trademark of his stage performances – I’ve got ‘Just a Feeling’ Badfest is going to be great! Buster: We were originally booked to play the club that they’ve got here. It was a nice Christmas do and it wasn’t over sold but we saw the potential here to have a brilliant festival. Nobody else has probably ever seen this potential and we want to be the first to really set it alight really because I’m sure in years to come this will be a well-known place – certainly a landmark. Q. So, what bands are confirmed? "Anybody who comes along will just go to themselves – “Wow I can’t wait for next year!" I think now everybody’s got mortgages and settled down with children the idea of fighting and being silly, things that they may have done when they were younger, has just gone out the window. In fact they’re the people who are now looking at the kids doing exactly the same thing and telling them off!Bad Manners are an English two-tone and ska band led by frontman Buster Bloodvessel. Early appearances included Top of the Pops and the live film documentary Dance Craze (1981). Buster: We were going to have it in Butlins by the sea and there were many other places planned but once we came here, to Twinwood, we sort of fell in love with the place. It’s got lots of connections, with Glenn Miller taking off from here on his last flight, so it’s quite a special place to hold a music festival. The grounds being RAF based actually looked the part for a Badfest – it all goes with the artwork! We’ve got the artwork everywhere and we all want to be a bit more camoflagued up on that weekend. There’ll be lots of tents, lots of camping and lots of shorts!

Of course I’m the last on so I’m going to be performing bigger than I can possibly be. And of course now I’ve lost so much weight I’m like a ballerina on the stage!Break-up and reformation [ edit ] Buster Bloodvessel performing with Bad Manners at Club Citta, Japan, 1991 I’m expecting a lot of these bands to actually outplay themselves because there’s never really been a line up quite as good as this and that will encourage each of the bands to perform more. 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] Morris, Joanna (12 December 2016). "Good manners of Teesside trio save legendary ska act Bad Manners' 40th anniversary tour". thenorthernecho.co.uk. 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!

Q. If all the bands in the Badfest line-up still tour and still attract loads and loads of fans, why are they largely ignored by media and record companies? After becoming popular in their native London, Bad Manners signed a recording contract with Magnet Records 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. Being closely associated with the 2 Tone movement (though never signed to 2 Tone Records itself), they were one of six bands featured in the 1981 documentary film Dance Craze. [1] And if you actually look at its radius – in a 100 mile radius you have captured the whole of great Britain except for the North East and the North West and a bit of the South - but the rest of it you’ve got. It’s also got very good transport links and it’s all very close to Milton Keynes and Bedford. It’s the perfect place and yet it’s not that well known, but I’m looking forward to the uprise of its whereabouts!Q. You are billed as ‘the hardest working band on the planet’– how many gigs do you normally do in a year? It’s increased my will to live and it’s made my health and fitness so much better. It’s a shame because I was a very happy fatty but now I understand both sides of the fence and I wish I’d done this a long time ago because health is the most important thing. 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. Amazingly some of these bands still sell more records and play larger shows than some of the bands we hear everyday on the radio. Some of their hit singles through the 1980's include " Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu", [1] " My Girl Lollipop", [1] " Lip Up Fatty", [1] " Can Can", [1] " Special Brew", [1] " Walking in the Sunshine" and " That'll Do Nicely". [4]

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