Buzzcocks
Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh.Gigs in Manchester and London followed and by the end of 1976, Buzzcocks became one of the first groups to form their own independent record label - New Hormones - on which they released the now-legendary and seminal ?Spiral Scratch' EP.
The following year saw the departure of Devoto and the recruitment of bassist Steve Garvey. In August 1977, the band signed a recording contract with United Artists Records and released the landmark ?Orgasm Addict' single. This was swiftly followed by ?What Do I Get?' - the band's first entry into the UK top 40 singles chart and the first of a string of chart singles. Over the next three years, Buzzcocks toured extensively and released a trilogy of outstanding albums: Another Music in a Different Kitchen, Love Bites and A Different Kind of Tension, as well as the hugely influential and popular Singles Going Steady compilation. In 1981, the band went their separate ways to undertake new projects.
1989 saw the reconvened Shelley/Diggle/Garvey/Maher line-up tour the world again by popular demand. Since then, the Shelley/Diggle partnership has been the core of sustained and successful activity without pause, punctuating the years of high profile gigging to date with six successful and well-received studio albums, culminating in 2015's The Way.
Few have had the longevity and sustained creative energy to produce the seemingly endless stream of truly original and fantastic pop songs, that Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle have consistently delivered over the last Five decades. Original and best.
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In a darkening musical landscape where viral fads and AI-generated fakery share chart-space with the self-absorbed products of the nation's stage schools, Buzzcocks shine out as a gleaming beacon of hope. A constant, ever-evolving presence over the last 45 years of pop culture, the band's legendary status will be set in stone - literally - with their inclusion in the Music Walk Of Fame in September, joining an illustrious roll call including David Bowie, The Who, Madness and Amy Winehouse.
The band's never-better live shows, meanwhile, are electrifying reminders of rock music's power to inspire, educate and inform. All delivered with an energy and conviction of a band half their age. "It's my lifeblood," says Steve Diggle - 68 years young - of a non-stop touring schedule which over the summer will see them play to thousands of fans across Europe and the UK. "I've still got the fire in my belly. Some musicians get bored of being on the road, but I'm institutionalised. I've done 50-odd years of staying in hotels. It's what I signed up for. Ever since I saw Bob Dylan in the back of a black taxi in (D.A. Pennebaker's 1967 documentary) Don't Look Back, I always wanted to live this kind of life - being interviewed in the back of a black taxi on the way to the studio."