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polarsky · Post by **polarsky** » Sun Feb 02, 2020 11:42 pm

https://www.facebook.com/Chameleonsvox/
https://www.songkick.com/artists/150433 ... s/calendar

Mark's Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/MarkBurgess

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York 13th March
Warrington 8th March
Holmfirth Feb 15th

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:14 am

Cool. I saw them live in the late 80s in Newcastle. Great gig.

WatchTheGuitar · Post by **WatchTheGuitar** » Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:50 am

Nice. I missed them first time round, but got to see them at York Fibbers on the tour they did to promote "Why Call It Anything?" and they were excellent.

polarsky · Post by **polarsky** » Thu Feb 06, 2020 10:50 pm

Will be my first, don't know how I managed to miss them or Chameleons Vox

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Fri Feb 28, 2020 4:23 am

I'd love to see them. I saw Skids at Holmfirth in 2017 and it was an amazing experience. Did anyone go? How was it?

polarsky · Post by **polarsky** » Sun Mar 01, 2020 2:02 am

Was tempted, seeing them later in the year. They have also added some acoustic gigs in the next couple of weeks

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:12 pm

bugger next sunday in warrington.
if i could get home id go, but sunday buses finish at 6pm

polarsky · Post by **polarsky** » Sun Mar 15, 2020 8:18 pm

Made it down to York, good gig. Mark's glasses flew off into the audience at one point and he changed the words of one of the songs to 'the Chancellor is a twat'. Everyone started singing when they played Second Skin.

Looks like all the recent gigs are on Marks patreon

https://www.patreon.com/MarkBurgess

polarsky · Post by **polarsky** » Sun Mar 15, 2020 8:24 pm

old pic

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Tue May 05, 2020 1:18 pm

BONES wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2020 4:23 am I'd love to see them. I saw Skids at Holmfirth in 2017 and it was an amazing experience. Did anyone go? How was it?

We were the support act. If the soundcheck was anything to go by it was great, but we had to load out and go as soon as we'd finished (there is no space backstage at the Picturedrome for that amount of gear...). Mark is a gent.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Wed May 06, 2020 12:39 am

Sorry, I think I was at the pub over the road while you guys played. I'd flown from Sydney to Berlin two days before, after a horror trip that took almost two full days, then I had to jump on another plane at 5am, after about four hours sleep, to get to Manchester, from where I hired a car to get to Holmfirth. I wasn't in the best of shape when I got there but meeting Richard Jobson and hanging out with Cunto, their front-of-house guy, made it a great experience. I was too tired to go down the front so I stood up by the FoH desk, where I could see and get good sound. If our flights had gone to plan, it would have been much better but I made the most of it. We'd also planned to see Shreikback the night before but they cancelled.

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Tue May 12, 2020 11:23 am

Shreikback are still going? Used to love them - still have their oil and gold as a regular CD in the car (no interwebs or bluetooth in my car - haven't joined this millenium quite yet

). Some of the Shreikback stuff is quite unique - I always thought very musical and quite grown up, but also music to slash your wrist to. That one they do with the little drum paradiddle thing going on in the background...just love it.

Saw the Chameleons a few times back in the day - I think twice in MCR and once in Sheffield, and despite never really being into guitars that much, I always loved how the Chameleons made such a wall of sound with theirs. Way better than New Order and all the other trendy shite at the time around those parts. Chameleons are one of the few bands I can really wail along to in the car. Sing like nobody's listening - they wouldn't want to if they heard me.

WatchTheGuitar · Post by **WatchTheGuitar** » Tue May 12, 2020 11:56 am

This would be a really good time to reissue Soul in Isolation if only they had a mind to now

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue May 12, 2020 9:39 pm

kritikon wrote: Tue May 12, 2020 11:23 amShreikback are still going? Used to love them - still have their oil and gold as a regular CD in the car (no interwebs or bluetooth in my car - haven't joined this millenium quite yet ). Some of the Shreikback stuff is quite unique - I always thought very musical and quite grown up, but also music to slash your wrist to. That one they do with the little drum paradiddle thing going on in the background...just love it.

Not only are they still going but they still release new albums on a regular basis. Their latest, released a few months ago, is really good and harks back to the Oil & Gold days in places. Have a listen, I bet you decide to buy it before you get to the end of the first song - https://shriekback.com/store

The silly old buggers even did a video for one of the songs -

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Wed May 13, 2020 9:02 am

BONES wrote: Wed May 06, 2020 12:39 am Sorry, I think I was at the pub over the road while you guys played. I'd flown from Sydney to Berlin two days before, after a horror trip that took almost two full days, then I had to jump on another plane at 5am, after about four hours sleep, to get to Manchester, from where I hired a car to get to Holmfirth. I wasn't in the best of shape when I got there but meeting Richard Jobson and hanging out with Cunto, their front-of-house guy, made it a great experience. I was too tired to go down the front so I stood up by the FoH desk, where I could see and get good sound. If our flights had gone to plan, it would have been much better but I made the most of it. We'd also planned to see Shreikback the night before but they cancelled.

Sounds like the itinerary from hell. You didn't miss us though, we were support for Chameleons in Feb this year (our debut gig!) not The Skids - sorry, my post was a little ambiguous

The Chameleons Tour