Bad Manners Announce New Zealand Tour

Rowdy UK ska veterans Bad Manners will be returning to Aotearoa for shows up and down the country this May. The rabble rousing band fronted by shiny-headed frontman Buster Bloodvessel are frequent visitors to our shores, last here bringing the noise in 2016. This time around the irrepressible group are visiting for a greatest hits tour joined by Jennie Belle Star of 80s London all-lady unit The Belle Stars. Check out the details for the New Zealand leg of their Australasian tour below...

Bad Manners (with special guest Jennie Belle Star)

Wednesday 9th May, Christchurch, The Foundry
Thursday 10th May, Wellington, San Fran
Friday 11th May, Napier, The Cabana
Saturday 12th May, Auckland, Studio
Sunday 13th May, Tauranga, Totara St.

Ticket presales available from 9:00am Thursday 18th January

Here's their legendary Top Of The Pops performance of 'Ne Ne Na Na Na Na Nu Nu'...

Press release:

Legends of fun time ska, BAD MANNERS return to Australia and New Zealand in 2018 for a Greatest Hits Tour. Fronted by Buster Bloodvessel, the man famous for his shiny bald head and giant personality, BAD MANNERS have a huge setlist of ska jubilation - Walking In The Sunshine, Lorraine, Lip Up Fatty, Special Brew, Just A Feeling, Skinhead Love Affair, My Girl Lollipop, Inner London Violence and of course the ultimate knees up Can Can.

Very Special Guest on this tour will be rude-girl queen of ska-pop JENNIE BELLE STAR (aka Jennie Matthias), lead singer of much treasured London all-girl 80's band THE BELLE STARS. Formed out of the ashes of 2-Tone ska revivalists The Bodysnatchers, THE BELLE STARS signed to the home of Madness (Stiff Records) and proceeded to storm the UK charts with a succession of fabulously exuberant ska romps. Having toured the world with the likes of Madness, the Beat and The Clash, Jennie will perform a set of skankin’ standards and THE BELLE STARS classics including Sign of the Times, as well as their Two Australian Top 10 singles, Iko Iko and The Clapping Song.

“Part nostalgia, part celebration, but total enjoyment and heartfelt smiles” Glam Adelaide

BAD MANNERS quickly became the favourites of the Ska movement through their on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops TV exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze.

At their peak popularity during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when ska revivalist such as Madness, The Specials, The Beat and The Selecter filled the charts, Bad Manners spent a staggering 111 weeks in the UK Singles Chart between 1980 and 1983.

“From start to finish, the show is full of almost obnoxious amounts of energy.” – SongKick.com

One of the main reasons for BAD MANNERS’ notoriety was their outlandish huge-tongued and generously proportioned frontman, Buster Bloodvessel. His manic exploits got them banned from the British BBC TV chart show Top of the Pops… and they were also banned from Italian TV after Bloodvessel, having being told that the Pope was watching, mooned the audience. Don’t recall seeing anything like that on Countdown!

Get ready for a non-stop party with Buster and the boys for all their Greatest Hits… This is Ska!

“It’s a school-outing that’s never stopped for us. We started in ‘76 and we’ve never stopped. We’ve always played live shows everywhere. We have good fun.” - Buster Bloodvessel

Tickets available via Metropolis Touring