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SLADE
- Without doubt one of the most
exciting bands to come out of Great Britain
in the past 30 years. With their unique
blend of perfect pop-rock'n'roll, outrageous
flamboyance and pure fun, and no less than
23 Top-20 singles of which 6 were No-1 smash
hits….plus 6 smash albums, Slade have become
a firm favourite in the hearts of pop fans
all over the world.
SLADE'S
chart career has spanned 3 decades
and their enduring songs
"Cum On Feel The
Noize" and "Coz I Luv You" are still
featured today in TV commercials for some of
the Worlds biggest companies.
SLADE
first hit the road in 1966, touring
throughout Great Britain and Europe and
becoming a regular concert attraction.
Joining forces with the former Animals bass
guitarist and Jimi Hendrix Experience
manager, Chas Chandler, Slade achieved their
first chart hit in May 1971 with the Bobby
Marchan song "Get Down And Get With It" then,
released in October of the same year "Coz I
Luv You" was the bands first No-1 and a huge
hit across Europe.
Throughout the seventies,
Slade became
one of Europe's biggest bands, touring and
recording continually and making regular
trips to America, Japan and other parts of
the world. Slade's catalogue of hits are
synonymous with the era:-
"Take Me Bak 'Ome",
"Mama We'er All Crazee Now", "Cum On Feel
The Noize", "Gudbye T' Jane", along
with the many others provided a soundtrack
to the Glam Generation and are still today,
heavily featured on any retrospective of the
time.
At the beginning of the eighties,
Slade were
invited to appear at the Reading Rock
Festival, a massive annual event which
attracted over 100,000 people. They
literally stole the show, giving some of the
worlds biggest rock bands a serious run for
their money whilst kindling new interest
from a whole new audience. As a result, the
band signed a new record deal and unleashed
the anthem "We'll
Bring The House Down", which reached
the Top-10 in the UK in January 1981. Slade
were back!
Not content to rest on their Glam laurels,
Slade began
forging a new path through the hugely
influential British heavy rock scene. A
second successful appearance at Castle
Donnington in 1981, before a crowd of over
200,000 people, consolidated the bands
position and paved the way for the single
"Lock Up Your
Daughters", and the album
"Til Deaf Do Us Part".
While Slade
were busy in the UK releasing the massive
hit "My Oh My"
to huge acclaim, LA metal band Quiet Riot
were spreading the word Stateside with their
version of "Cum On
Feel The Noize", which proved so
successful that they followed it up with
"Mama We'er All Crazee Now". Throughout the
rest of the eighties Slade toured and
recorded due to them once again being a
major force in British pop'n'rock.
The early ninties saw the bands
"Radio Wall Of Sound"
hit the UK Top-30 and thereby give Slade a
solid 20 year chart run!
In 1993, due to the continual demand from
around the world, founder Slade members Dave
Hill and Don Powell decided to return to
touring by playing a few select dates in
Europe prior to embarking on what turned out
to be a very successful two month tour of
Australia.
SLADE
have continued to tour the world. They are
firm favourites on the lucrative German
festival scene and undertake an annual UK
"Merry Christmas
Everybody" tour in December. They
also have a huge following of fans and
regularly play concert dates in Russia,
Poland, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Denmark,
Norway, Finland, France and the Czech
Republic.
Led by founder members Dave Hill and Don
Powell, the bands latest additions are ex
Mud bass guitarist John Berry, frequently
spied in the guise of the Big Issue seller
in Eastenders, and new lead vocalist Mal
McNulty. Mal has had an extensive career, he
featured with Rockin Horse in the ‘70s,
heavy rock band Golden Night, German rock
band Hazzard, and he was a founder member of
London fun-pub band Paddy Goes To Holyhead.
Having formed The Wandering Crutchlees with
Tino Troy of Praying Mantis, Bruce Bisland
of Sweet and occasional guest Andy Scott,
Mal joined Sweet in which he eventually
became lead vocalist.
Slade today is
still one of the most exciting bands on the
road, and their stage performance is a
dynamic, powerful and exhilarating
roller-coaster ride of pure unadulterated
rock'n'roll.
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