Angelic Upstarts

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Angelic Upstarts
General information
origin South Shields (UK)
Genre (s) Punk rock , Oi!
founding 1977
Founding members
singing
 Thomas "Mensi" Mensforth (1977–2006, since 2007)
guitar
 Ray "moon" Cowie
bass
 Steve Forsten
Drums
 Decca calf
Current occupation
singing
 Thomas "Mensi" Mensforth
guitar
 Dickie Hammond
guitar
 Neil Newton
bass
 Gaz stoker
Drums
 Brett Mulvaney
former members
singing
 Chris Wright (2006-2007)
guitar
 Tony van Frater
Drums
 Lainey
guitar
 Brian Hayes
bass
 Ronnie Wooden
bass
 Glyn Warren
bass
 Tony feedback
bass
 Ronnie Rocker
Bass, drums
 Max Splodge
Drums
 Sticks Warrington
Drums
 Paul Thompson
Drums
 Chris White
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Teenage Warning
  UK 25th 08/18/1979 (7 weeks)
We gotta get outta this place
  UK 54 04/12/1980 (3 weeks)
2,000,000 voices
  UK 32 06/27/1981 (3 weeks)
Angelic Upstarts
  UK 27 09/26/1981 (7 weeks)
Singles
I'm an Upstart
  UK 31 04/21/1979 (8 weeks)
Teenage Warning
  UK 29 08/11/1979 (6 weeks)
Never 'Ad Nothin'
  UK 52 03/11/1979 (4 weeks)
Out of control
  UK 58 02/09/1980 (3 weeks)
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
  UK 65 03/22/1980 (2 weeks)
Last Night Another Soldier
  UK 51 08/02/1980 (4 weeks)
Kids on the Street
  UK 57 02/07/1981 (3 weeks)

Angelic Upstarts is an Oi! - and political punk band from South Shields, England . Many of her texts deal with issues of the political left and the interests and problems of the working class .

history

Angelic Upstarts was founded in 1977 by Thomas "Mensi" Mensforth (vocals), Ray "Mond" Cowie (guitar), Steve Forsten (bass) and Decca Wade (drums). In the years of its existence the band had a strongly changing line-up.

The 1979 debut single, Murder of Liddle Towers , themed police brutality; in the same year produced Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69 , the first Upstarts album Teenage Warning ; With this and the following We Gotta Get Outta This Place , the Upstarts gained popularity. The US American Touch and Go fanzine put the band at number one on their top 40 list of the month in November 1979. The album Reason Why? from 1983 is considered by many to be the best of the group.

In the early years of the band there were often violent clashes at the Upstarts concerts with right-wing extremist skinheads, both of whom were Oi! Music and its working class symbolism, as well as an intermittent play by the band with Nazi symbols. There were (unsuccessful) attempts to take possession of it by the right-wing extremist British National Front , although the band saw itself as part of the (left) labor movement from the start and acted strictly anti-fascist.

In August 2006 Thomas Mensforth left the band as the last founding member and Chris White took over the vocals. Decca Wade, also a founding member, returned to the drums. In 2007 Mensforth returned to the band as a singer.

Discography

Albums

  • 1979: Teenage Warning ( Warner Bros. Records )
  • 1980: We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Warner Bros. Records)
  • 1981: 2,000,000 voices
  • 1981: Angelic Upstarts
  • 1981: Live
  • 1982: Still from the Heart
  • 1983: Reason Why?
  • 1983: Angel Dust (Collected Highs 78-83)
  • 1984: Last Tango in Moscow
  • 1985: Bootlegs & Rarities
  • 1985: Live in Yugoslavia
  • 1988: Bootlegs & Rarities
  • 1988: Angel Dust (The Collected Highs 1978-1983)
  • 1986: Power of the Press
  • 1987: Blood on the Terraces
  • 1987: Brighton Bomb
  • 1988: Live and Loud
  • 1988: Last Tango in Moscow
  • 1989: The EMI Punk Years
  • 1991: Lost and Found
  • 1992: Bombed Out
  • 1993: Kids on the Street
  • 1986: Power of the Press
  • 1993: Greatest Hits Live
  • 1994: Live in Lübeck '89
  • 1995: The Independent Punk Singles
  • 1997: Rarities
  • 1998: Who Killed Liddle
  • 1999: Never 'Ad Nothing
  • 2000: The BBC Punk Sessions
  • 2001: Anthems Against Scum
  • 2001: Live from the Justice League
  • 2002: Sons of Spartacus
  • 2002: The EMI Years
  • 2004: The Punk Singles Collection
  • 2011: The Dirty Dozen (with Crashed Out)
  • 2012: Live in Stockholm

Singles and EPs

  • 1978: The Murder of Liddle Towers
  • 1979: I'm an Upstart
  • 1979: Teenage Warning
  • 1979: Never 'ad Nothin'
  • 1980: Out of Control
  • 1980: We Gotta Get Out of this Place
  • 1980: Last Night Another Soldier
  • 1980: England
  • 1981: Different Strokes (feat.Roy Young)
  • 1981: Kids on the Street
  • 1981: I Understand
  • 1982: Woman in Disguise
  • 1982: Never Say Die
  • 1983: Solidarity
  • 1983: Not Just a Name
  • 1984: Machine Gun Kelly
  • 1985: Brighton Bomb
  • 1988: England's Alive (EP)
  • 1994: Paint it Red EP (EP)

Video albums

  • 2005: Live: Solidarity
  • 2012: Live in Stockholm

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: UK
  2. ^ Tesco Vee & Dave Stimson: Touch and Go. The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79 -'93 . 3. Edition. Bazillion Points, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-9796163-8-9 , pp. 15 .