In 2015 promoter Moz Murray announced a one-off 40th anniversary show, “Back to the Start”, featuring the original line-up of Barrett, Rossi, Bates and Grantham. Held at the (now permanently closed,) Ruby Lounge in Manchester on 9 October 2015. In August 2016, the same original line up of Barrett, Rossi, Bates and Grantham performed together again at the Rebellion Music Festival in Blackpool, United Kingdom. In 2016, the band recorded the album Vicious in Los Angeles, with a new rhythm section of Mark Reback (drums) and Dan Graziano (bass), and subsequently toured Japan in May 2016 and Europe in February and March 2017. It was released by Cleopatra Records on 16 September 2016, and released to generally favorable reviews. Cleopatra issued a live album, Tokyo Dogs , in 2017.
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