The Adicts
The Adicts | |
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Keith Warren with The Adicts at Open Flair 2015 |
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General information | |
Genre (s) | punk |
founding | 1975 as Afterbirth 1977 as The Adicts |
Founding members | |
Keith "Monkey" Warren | |
Mel Ellis | |
Pete Dee Davison | |
Michael "Kid Dee" Davison | |
Current occupation | |
Keith "Monkey" Warren | |
Pete Dee Davison | |
Michael "Kid Dee" Davison | |
Highko electricity | |
Kiki cable |
The Adicts (engl. Actually addicts , interpreting .: addicts ) is a punk band from Ipswich , UK. They were founded in 1975 and played in their original line-up until 2017. They called themselves the longest-running punk band with the original line-up.
Band history
When it was founded in 1975, the band was initially called Afterbirth , later The Pintz . In 1977, inspired by Stanley Kubrick's film Clockwork Orange , they changed their name to The Adicts . Since there was already a band called Addicts , they left out a d .
The members adopted the style and appearance, so white clothes and black and white made-up faces, the " Clockwork Orange " gang around Alex. In 2009 and 2017, The Adicts supported the German tour of the Toten Hosen as the opening act .
Discography
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- Lunch With The Adicts (EP) (1979)
- Songs of praise (1981)
- Sound of music (1982)
- This Is Your Life (1984)
- Smart Alex (1985)
- Fifth overture (1986)
- Live and Loud (Live) (1987)
- Rockers into orbit (Live) (1988)
- twenty-seven (1993)
- Totally Addicted (Compilation) (1994)
- Ultimate Adiction (Compilation) (1997)
- Joker in the Pack (Compilation) (1999)
- The Very Best of the Adicts (Compilation) (1999)
- Complete Singles Collection (Compilation) (1999)
- Rise and shine (2002)
- Rollercoaster (2004)
- Made In England (Compilation) (2005)
- Life goes on (2009)
- All the young Droogs (2012)
- And it was so! (2017)
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- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Chart sources: UK
Web links
Commons : The Adicts - collection of images, videos and audio files
- The Adicts on myspace
- The Adicts on last.fm (English)
- The Adicts on cxc.info (English)