Johnny Moped

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Johnny Moped are an English punk rock group from south London, who once had Chrissie Hynde (later of The Pretenders) and Captain Sensible (later of The Damned) within their ranks.

Formed in Croydon in May 1974, the band were a proto-punk band. Initially calling themselves Johnny Moped and the 5 Arrogant Superstars, by August they changed their moniker to Assault and Buggery, then the Commercial Band, before reverting to just Johnny Moped by January 1975.

Johnny Moped became one of the pioneering punk bands that played live in the first few months of London’s now-legendary Roxy Club. They played two gigs in February 1977, one supporting Eater and one backing The Damned. The following month they played two more, one supporting Slaughter & The Dogs and the other backing The Damned. In April, they were on a bill that included Wire, X-Ray Spex and the Buzzcocks.
Johnny Moped’s “Hard Lovin’ Man” appeared on the hit various artists album Live at the Roxy WC2 (Harvest Records, 1977). The band signed with Chiswick Records and released three singles, including “Little Queenie” (a cover of the Chuck Berry song), and one album – Cycledelic – before splitting up. First single “No-One” later featured on the Chiswick various artists sampler album Long Shots, Dead Certs and Odds On Favourites in 1978, while b-side “Incendiary Device” made number 15 in BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel’s ‘Festive Fifty’, the so-called ‘lost list’ of 1977.

Sixteen years after its release, the publishers of The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, named Cycledelic as one of the best fifty punk albums of all-time. Most of the band reformed to record a second album The Search For Xerxes in 1990. A documentary about the band Basically Johnny Moped, produced by Fred Burns, premiered in September 2013.

It’s 38 years since their debut album Cycledelic came out to an unsuspecting public via the legendary Chiswick Records label…and now (apart from the Search For Xerxes album) the remaining three original members of Johnny Moped, that’s Johnny Moped, Slimy Toad and Dave Berk, are back with a brand new album called It’s A Real Cool Baby.

This will be Johnny Moped’s first album since 1990’s The Search For Xerxes will be released on 25th March…”It’s A Real Cool Baby” is a 16 tracks on gatefold LP (green vinyl) and digipak CD!

IGLOO http://officialiglooband.bandcamp.com/album/castles-aside-ep

We welcome back Igloo, a three-piece, guitar fuelled, forward thinking, alt-rock band. Formed in Brighton in the latter part of 2012. In the early part of 2014 they downsized to a three piece, consisting of Mark Barnes, Vocals/Guitar, Pearse Hemestretch, bass, – Max Julié on drums.
With a nod to Muse and Placebo, Nirvana and Queens of the Stoneage, they have just brought out their 4 track Castles Aside EP and are working on their new album.

Alex Fraser – Overhead Wires
Watching them live is overwhelming, inspiring and I would recommend it to anyone.

Simon Parker – Cable Club
IGLOO tore the roof off with their recent performance. Hypnotic and dynamic, trailing a hint of Muse and forward thinking alt rock, this is a thunderous live show from a 3-piece!

THE WEIRD THINGS https://www.facebook.com/The-Weird-Things-1571579916427929/timeline

Opening will be a debut for THE WEIRD THINGS are made up of Simon who played Bass in CASE from 2012 until the 2014 and played guitar with the ska band The Riffs in the 80’s which toured Europe … Martin was the drummer in CASE from 1980 to 81 and then again in 1985.

Martin reformed CASE in 2011 for the release of the ‘Ain’t Gonna Dance ‘ album on Damaged Goods Records. Martin also was in Blood and Roses in 1983 and released a single ‘Some like it Hot’ and the album ‘Enough is never Enough’ which has recently been re-released on Cherry Red Records.

He was also in Dirty Love in 2005 to 2007 and released the album ‘Trashed’. Martin also toured with Los Pariliticos supporting The Tubes around Europe in 2005..
Mr Jan was the Bass player of Dogbonfire who had many great support slots with The Damned and The Fall. And most important of all is the brilliant Charlie on vocals. There is so much more we could put and go on and on that we did this and that but that’s all in the past. All that matters now is what we do with THE WEIRD THINGS. Join us for the ride. It will be fun….