The Amazing Spacefrogs

Continuing their reputation as one of the Northeast’s premier live bands. The band have appeared on the front cover of countless magazines and fanzines and are now venturing out to new areas spreading the frog gospel to all and sundry with the band having a repertoire list of over 30 songs they can cover all bases live, whether it be two sets pub club/show or striped down full on high energy original material set.

The dust cast over England from the great drought of 1976 was not only due to the lack of rainfall, the music industry was also barren. Helped by the gap toothed Pussycat rubbing the waters of the Missippi into the gaping wounds .. Something had to be done. 1977 was that annus mirabillis, the Queens Silver Jubilee year (is she still alive?), this was the birth of what was then " The Spacefrogs", their first gig at The Wellington (Middlesbrough) was eventful, homegrown first generation punk in a starved world. the Spacefrogs were seminal in the North East punk movement. The infamous Middlesbrough Rock Garden (now the Arena) was their "support stomping ground", the upstaging of established acts started with none other than The Cure, and with fantastic local support frightened off major acts including the Angelic Upstarts, The Rezillos , and The Fall. 1979 sees the release of the "Dirty Habit" EP featuring the songs "Norman and Jeremy", "Nuns of Destruction" and the legendary "Necrophilia" The EP ended up being banned by the BBC after appearing on John Peels show (God knows why!). Five Hundred copies in 3 weeks - not bad for a first release, now a sought after EP among collectors worth in excess of 250 for a good copy. 1982 - 1993 Bugsy goes on one hell of a black'n (Thats Getting drunk ALL day for the uninitiated) 1993 the little fella starts pestering local band "Riot Act" to let him get up and sing, the band don't agree. However he gets up anyway, but to the relief of all he falls off the stage breaking the new lighting rig at the Georgian Theatre (Stockton) in the process. Anyway like a bad rash he wont go away and ends up convincing Riot Act to be his backing group for a one off "Frogs show". At this point Bugsy starts collaborating (that's in the song writing kind of way), with Steve the bass player in Riot Act. 1994 sees the first of many gigs with the rejuvenated Spacefrogs supporting Hugh Cornwell at Middlesborough Cornerhouse. Then gig gig gig gig, till . August 1997 sees the recording of the first bona-fide LP "Don't Tell Me Mam", recorded and mixed at Oblivion Studios (Stockton on Tees). A must have for any fan. The pressure of stardom took its toll, Dave Gregory (bass) decided to leave and concentrate his efforts in "P.I.G." on a guitar with more strings. Steve moved onto his weapon of choice bass guitar, giving Paul Tattersall free reign on lead guitar, Craig Lester on drums, and Bugsy (best not give him too much work) on vocals. The four piece (Fab Four) sound was crafted, culminating in the 1999 EP Talk Show. The path leading to this release lost the long standing drummer Craig, (he took a wrong turn and ran into cupid), the path led past a pizza shop luckily manned by Jonno, who just happened to be an alive drummer. The Talk Show single gave the band a more polished sound, featuring "Mr Thumbprint Head", "I Should Be So Lucky", "Come On Feel The Noise", and the title track "Talk Show", based (loosely .. M' Lord) on The Jerry Springer Show. Recorded and mixed at Castlegate Studios (Stockton on Tees). By September 1999 Jonno was moving into more radical groups, and Craig was keen to step back In .. drummers eh!, with Craig back more songwriting and gigging later (several house purchases and a wedding) 2001 saw a live album was recorded at The Studio Hartlepool. 2002 Steve has daft accident they end up back as a 5 piece with new member Shaun Macphisto taking over bass duties!! 2003 Sees the release of "balls to Christmas" sells out it first pressing in less than a week!! The whole project from idea in the pub to writting and recording to manufacture took about 5 days. 2004 The infamous "Teessiders" is to be released on the 21st Feb.... about 10 copies left!!! 2005 Back down to a four piece a BIG thanks To Shaun M for all his help while bassing, Good times had by all.. The band is currently rehearsing material for their next album “Better Dead Than Wed” 14 songs at present the band plan on releasing it late summer 2005. They will be releasing it themselves unless some record company comes along and gets their hand in their pocket. Watch this space................

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