"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 4/12/24)
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Real Live Certified
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Critic Consensus
Based on 9 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Bad Manners is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths. Bad Manners concert reviews describe live shows and performances as eccentric and funky.
ON TOUR
Festwiesen Loburg, Loburg, Germany (August 15); Concorde 2, Brighton, United Kingdom (December 15); Rock City, Nottingham, United Kingdom (December 22); Slay, Glasgow, United Kingdom (January 3);
Bad Manners are an English 2-Tone Ska band fronted by Buster Bloodvessel (born Douglas Trendle, 6 September 1958, in the borough of Hackney), and formed in 1976 at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School, North London, where the members studied. Reportedly, none of the eight members could play any instrument when they started.
If you saw Douglas Trendle sitting and having a pint at the King’s Arms, you’d likely write him off at the nutter down the pub you’d rather avoid, the UKIP voter with a pitbull under a corner table and a half-looked-at copy of The Sun by his beer tankard.
But on stage, Trendle becomes Buster Bloodvessel, fr
The band was formed in 1976 and spent 111 weeks in the UK singles chart between 1980-1983 legendary frontman Buster Bloodvessel is the only original member left in the current line up.
Formed in 1976 and forever fronted by Buster Bloodvessel, the band hit their peak of popularity in the early 80s before being banned by Top Of The Pops for their wild onstage antics and eccentric behaviour.
A ska-filled evening kicked off
with London-based Skanx,
whose funky melodies included
a reworked Eve Of The War
(from Jeff Wayne’s The War Of
The Worlds). By the time that
Buster Bloodvessel and crew
hit the stage, there were plenty
of braces and boots flying. The
11-piece band (including two
bongo players)
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