Bad Habits (band)

Bad Habits is a rock/punk/metal band from London. The line-up has experienced various changes since its original formation in 1984 by former Gypsy Leicester band members (including Robin Pizer) who when reformed decided to go in a heavier musical direction from their original formation as Gypsy and therefore used both names interchangeably with the first heavier sounding single for Bad Habits, "Lipstick Queen", (with bass playing from Algy Ward) released in 1986 on Sniffin’ Rock Magazine and the release of the Gypsy band album Gypsy - Future Teller, containing the album track "Bad Habits", with vocals from John K. on Gypsy - Way Out Of Line, Gypsy - Lost In Berlin and Gypsy - Let Me In.

In live in-session interviews on BBC World Service (which aired in multiple countries worldwide) during this time (1984–2001) Gypsy used the names Gypsy and Bad Habits interchangeably. (Some of the tracks off Gypsy's albums have been re-recorded and re-released on Bad Habits albums.)

Eventually they decided to use the name Bad Habits. They have three albums (both solid and digitally released) out with their current lineup, consisting of 3 band members (with adapted pseudonyms): Red Butane - guitarist and backing vocalist, Glo Butane - lead vocalist, bass guitarist and keyboardist, and Santos El Diablo - drummer.

Seven deadly sins

The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, is a Western religious grouping and classification of vices. This grouping emerged in the fourth century AD and was used for Christian ethical education and for confession. Though the sins have fluctuated over time, the currently recognized list includes pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. There is a parallel tradition of seven virtues.

The seven deadly sins are called "capital" because they are the origins of other vices. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a mortal or deadly sin is believed to destroy the life of grace and charity within a person.

The tradition of seven deadly sins as we know it today originated with the desert fathers, specifically Evagrius Ponticus. Evagrius identified seven or eight evil thoughts or spirits that one needed to overcome. Evagrius' pupil John Cassian brought that tradition to Europe with his book The Institutes. The idea of seven basic vices or sins was fundamental to Catholic confessional practices as evidence in penitential manuals as well as sermons like "The Parson's Tale" from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. This connection is also clear in how Dante's Purgatory is arranged according to the seven deadly sins. The concept of seven deadly sins was used throughout the medieval Christian world to teach young people how to avoid evil and embrace the good as is evident in treatises, paintings, sculpture decorations on churches. Works like Peter Brueghel the Elder's prints of the Seven Deadly Sins as well as Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene show the continuity of this tradition into the modern era.

Bad Habits

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Bad Habits (Colin James album)

Bad Habits is a blues album by Canadian musician Colin James, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music). In the U.S., the album was released on Elektra Records. The album was produced, engineered and mixed at Compass Point in Nassau and mastered at MasterDisk in New York City. The album earned James the 1996 Juno Award for "Male Vocalist of the Year". The album had sold 70,000 units in Canada by January, 1999.

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