Bad Manners
Bad Manners are an English ska band led by frontman Buster Bloodvessel. Early appearances included Top of The Pops and the live film documentary, Dance Craze.
They were at their most popular during the early 1980s, during a period when other ska revival bands such as Madness, The Specials and The Selecter filled the charts. Bad Manners spent 111 weeks in the UK Singles Chart between 1980 and 1983, and they also achieved chart success with their first four studio albums with Gosh It's... Bad Manners, Loonee Tunes! and Ska 'n' B being their biggest hits.
Formation
Fronted by Buster Bloodvessel (born Douglas Trendle), the band was formed in 1976 while the members were together at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School near Manor House, North London. They commemorated the 1981 closure of the school on the back sleeve of their Gosh It's... Bad Manners album.
Career
After becoming popular in their native London, Bad Manners signed to 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.
Bad Manners (film)
Growing Pains (also known as Bad Manners) is a 1984 American black comedy teen film released by New World Pictures. Written and directed by Robert Houston and produced by Kim Jorgensen, the film follows a group of teenage delinquents who escape the oppressive Catholic orphanage where they live in order to rescue one of their fellow "inmates". While the film's adult stars Martin Mull, Karen Black, Anne De Salvo, and Murphy Dunne received top billing in promotional materials, the story is told through the perspective of the adolescent protagonists; played by Georg Olden, Pamela Segall, Michael Hentz, Joey Coleman, and Christopher Brown.
Synopsis
The film begins at the ominous "Home of the Bleeding Heart" Catholic orphanage, where teenage delinquent "Piper" (Georg Olden) arrives by police escort. There he meets the cruel overseers: the stern head-mistress of the orphanage, Sister Serena (Anne De Salvo), and the cattle-prod wielding head-master, Mr. Kurtz (Murphy Dunne). After disobeying the home's loathsome authority figures, Piper is sent into solitary confinement where he befriends a group of adolescent trouble-makers; "Girl Joey" (Pamela Segall), the tough-talking "tomboy" of the group; "Mouse" (Michael Hentz), the smallest, youngest and "cutest" of the group; "Whitey" (Joey Coleman), the platinum blonde, self-appointed "leader" of the group; and "Blackie" (Christopher Brown), the "intellectual" and only black orphan at the home.
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ALBUMS
- Gosh! It's... released: 2011
- Walking in the Sunshine: The Best Of released: 2008
- Special Brew: The Platinum Collection released: 2005
- Ska Party released: 2005
- Stupidity released: 2003
- The Best of Bad Manners released: 2002
- Magnetism: The Very Best of Bad Manners released: 2000
- Special Brew released: 1999
- Mental Notes released: 1999
- Don't Knock the Bald Head released: 1998
- The Collection released: 1998
- Don't Knock the Baldhead released: 1997
- Can Can released: 1997
- Viva La Ska Revolution released: 1997
- Heavy Petting released: 1997
- Lip Up Fatty released: 1996
- Eat the Beat released: 1996
- Return of the Ugly released: 1995
- Skinhead released: 1994
- Greatest Hits Live released: 1993
- Fat Sound released: 1993
- Live and Loud! released: 1989
- Forging Ahead released: 1982
- Ska 'n' B released: 1980
- Loonee Tunes! released: 1980
- Anthology released:
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- This Is Ska! released:
- Fatty Fatty released:
- Inner London Violence released:
- Rare & Fatty released:
Gosh! It's...
Released 2011- Walking in the Sunshine
- Dansetta
- Can Can
- Weeping and Wailing
- Casablanca (Rags and Riches)
- Don't Be Angry (live)
- Ben E. Wriggle
- Runaway
- Never Will Change
- Only Funkin'
- End of the World
- Gherkin
- Armchair Disco
- Night Bus to Dalston (vocal version)
- Buona Sera
- The New One
- No Respect
- Walking in Sunshine (12" mix)
Ska Party
Released 2005- Lip Up Fatty - Ne-ne-na-na-na-na-nu-nu
- Hi Ho Silver Lining
- My Girl Lollipop (My Boy Lollypop)
- Black Night
- Cider Drinker
- Hokey Cokey
- Can Can
- Special Brew
- Skaville Uk
- Fatty Fatty
- Skinhead Love Affair
- Teddy Bears Picnic
- Weeping and Wailing
- Oh, I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside
- Knees Up Mother Brown-oh What a Rotten Sod!
- Show Me the Way Home
- I'm a Mummy
- I Don't Care
- Can Can - Buster's Groove
- Just a Feeling
- Hoots Mon
- Samson and Delilah
- Ne-ne-na-na-na-na-nu-nu
- Lorraine
- Skamix - I Just Wanna Bang on a Drum All Day
The Best of Bad Manners
Released 2002- Lip Up Fatty - Ne, Ne, Na, Na, Na, Na, Nu, Nu
- Hi Ho Silver Lining
- My Girl Lollipop
- Black Night
- Cider Drinker
- Hokey Cokey
- Can Can
- Special Brew
- Skaville UK
- Fatty Fatty
- Skinhead Love Affair
- The Teddy Bear's Picnic
- Weeping an' Wailing
- I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside
- Knees Up Mother Brown
- Show Me the Way to Go Home
- I'm a Mummy
- I Don't Care
- Can Can - Buster's Groove
- Just A Feeling
- Hoots Mon! There's a Moose Loose About This Hoose
- Samson & Delilah
- Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu
- Lorraine
- Lip Up Fatty Bang the Drum All Day
Magnetism: The Very Best of Bad Manners
Released 2000- Special Brew
- Lip Up Fatty
- Ne-ne, Na-na, Na-na, Nu-nu
- Can Can
- My Girl Lollipop
- Lorraine
- Woolly Bully
- Magnificent 7
- Just a Feeling
- Tequila
- Buona Sera
- Inner London Violence
- That'll Do Nicely
- Walking in the Sunshine
- Samson and Delilah
- Only Funkin'
- Got No Brains
- The Undersea Adventures of Ivor the Engine
- Echo 4-2
- Don't Be Angry (live)
- El Pussycat
Don't Knock the Bald Head
Released 1998- Echo 4 + 2
- This Is Ska
- My Girl Lollipop
- Fatty Fatty
- Lorraine
- Feel Like Jumping
- Skaville UK
- Walking in the Sunshine
- King Ska/Fa
- Samson and Delilah
- Wet Dream
- Just a Feeling
- El Pussy Cat
- Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu
- Sally Brown
- Don't Be Angry
- Wooly Bully
- Inner London Violence
- Special Brew
- Don't Knock the Bald Head!
- Lip Up Fatty
- Can Can
Eat the Beat
Released 1996- Since You've Gone Away
- Return of the Ugly
- Stampede
- Rosemary
- Bonanza Ska
- Sally Brown
- Skinhead Girl
- Non Shrewd
- Mafia
- Pipeline
- Big Five
- Viva La Ska Revolution
- Dume Batty
- Gonna Get Along Without You (radio edit)
- Johnny's Knee
- How Big Do You Love Me
- Oh Jamaica
- Gonna Get Along Without You (Reggae version)
Fat Sound
Released 1993- Mambo, Ska Number 8
- Do the Creep
- I Can't Stand the Rain
- Crazy Over You
- Feel Like Jumping
- Midnight Rider
- Skinhead Love Affair
- Voices in Your Head
- The First Cut Is the Deepest
- Wet Dream
- Stop Making Love Beside Me
- Pig Bad
- Mambo Number 8
- Teenager in Love
- Lola
- Wet Dream (dub mix)
- Midnight Rider (dub mix)
- I Can't Stand the Rain (12" mix)
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Night Boat To Cairo
by: Bad MannersIt's just gone noon
Half past monsoon
On the banks of the river Nile
Here comes the boat
Only half-afloat
Oarsman grins a toothless smile
Only just one more
To this desolate shore
Last boat along the river Nile
Doesn't seem to care
No more wind in his hair
As he reaches his last half mile
The oar snaps in his hand
Before he reaches dry land
But the sound doesn't deafen his smile
Just pokes at wet sand
With an oar in his hand
Floats off down the river Nile
Floats off down the river Nile
(All aboard, night boat to Cairo! )
(Night boat to Cairo! )
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