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Originally
formed as The Afterbirths in 1977 before changing to the name
Pinz. However a band with the same name meant they had to change
to the Addicts. Bad luck again as this was taken so to avoid
confusion they dropped 1 'd' to become the Adicts! For two years
they played mainly local gigs building up a following and their
break came when they played the Breakneck in Camden London in
August 79 when they were signed to the Norwich label Dining out
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For the time frame of this site a one record deal brought a 4 track EP -
Lunchtime With The Adicts
in September 1979 featuring
This Week / Straight Jacket / Organised
Confusion & Easy Way Out. Selling a
respectable 10,000 copies (and earning them £23 in royalties!) and at no 2
in the independent charts things looked up even more with a John Peel
Session in December 1979 with
Get
Addicted, Distortion, Sensitive and Numbers
being the tracks.
The band at this time was Pete Davison on Guitar, Mel 'Spider' Ellis on
Guitar, Kid Davison on Drums, Tim Hocking on Bass and K 'Monkey'
Warren on Vocals (on account of his big ears!)
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Obviously the Adicts went on to record more stuff and are in fact still
playing today. They adopted a Clockwork Orange image to distance
themselves from the regulation punk image that was now commonplace,
changed their name a few more times i.e. Fun Adicts and ADX before coming
back to The Adicts.
"Musically, they pretty much
run the gamut from chant-a-long, scarf-wavin' oi to somethin' akin to a
punked-out Dexy's Midnight Runners, to new-wave-punk fusion and back again
without soundin' any the worse for it."
From some site another that I've forgot!
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Jan Knightley
Punk77 email from 15.1.2005
We
did a gig supporting a band called "The Adicts". I think they were
from Ipswich. The lead singer dressed like Alex out of "A Clockwork
Orange". I think his name was Monkey. They were on T.V. (I think it
was "Cheggers Plays Pop"), and they used the name "The Fun Adicts" - I
think because it was a show aimed at little kids. They did spell the
name with only one 'D' (it is more punk that way). Do they fit your
criteria? Maybe they were a bit later than 77 - maybe 78 or 79...They
seemed pretty ambitious. I was in a band called "The Push", and
supporting The Adicts was a big deal for us. They had a manager and
everything. They let us use their P.A. and mikes. Then when they came
on, after we had played, the manager brought out these high quality,
very posh mikes for them - so they sounded way better than we did. I
thought they were pretty crap. They seemed to be selling out before
they had even got anywhere - and at the time, as you know, that was
not a punk thing to do. |
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