In mid-1979, Stiff Little Fingers signed their Rigid Digits label to Chrysalis Records , and in 1980 released their second album, Nobody’s Heroes .
There were a number of well-publicised arguments; The Undertones accused Stiff Little Fingers of sensationalising the Northern Ireland conflict, while they retorted that The Undertones ignored it. Michael Bradley, The Undertones bassist, tells of a confrontation in 1979 between The Undertones’ John O’Neill and SLF’s Jake Burns: “He launched into…
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The band shortened their name to The Buzzards for the 1979 single “We Make a Noise” and the album Jellied Eels to Record Deals , before reverting to The Leyton Buzzards for their final single, “Can’t Get used to Losing You”.
The Boys released a second album on NEMS, titled Alternative Chartbusters , and toured in support of it with the Ramones . The Boys then signed with Safari in 1979, and two albums and five singles followed before the band broke up in the summer of 1981. Each Christmas, the…
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That year, “Can’t Stand Losing You” was also re-released in the UK, peaking at No. 2.
Several 1979 performances were featured in the 1980 film, D.O.A. . A few months after the breakup, the band had to reunite to record a live album and thus fulfill their contractual obligations. To exact revenge on the label, Bators purposely sang off-mic and the resulting recording was unusable. When…
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The group’s first single, “Fall Out”, was reissued in late 1979, peaking at No. 47 in the UK.
In 1979, Chris Houston (a.k.a. Pogo Agogo) joined the band and played bass on the 1980 release In Love With the System . Houston left the band just over a year later citing “creative differences” and time constraints as he pursued post secondary education.
In 1979, the B-52s signed contracts as they flew over to Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas , to record their debut studio album , with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell producing. The band was surprised by Blackwell’s recording methods; he wanted to keep the sound as close as possible…
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In 1979, Bators recorded some singles including a cover of ” It’s Cold Outside ” by the Choir and a solo album, Disconnected , for BOMP! Records. Bators later joined the Wanderers with former members of Sham 69 and shortly thereafter formed Lords of the New Church with Brian James…
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