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| The Lords of the New Church | |
|---|---|
| Genres | Post punk Gothic rock New Wave Glam punk |
| Years active | 1982–1989, 2002, 2003–2007 |
| Labels | I.R.S. Records |
| Members | Adam Becvare Brian James Dave Tregunna Nick Turner |
| Past members | Stiv Bators Alister Simmons |
The Lords of the New Church was an English/American post-punk supergroup with a line-up consisting of four musicians from prominent 1970s punk bands.
History
Formed in 1982, the band comprised the punk pioneers Stiv Bators (The Dead Boys), Brian James (The Damned), Dave Tregunna (Sham 69) and Nick Turner (The Barracudas). The band recorded three studio albums and one live album before Bators ended the band onstage after a concert on 2 May 1989, at the London Astoria. During this time, they underwent several line-up changes, with a second guitarist Alistair Ward joining and with Tregunna departing, to be briefly replaced by Grant Fleming, who had been road manager of Sham 69.
More melodic and slickly produced than most punk, their music both reached a broader audience than that of many bands in the genre and alienated hardcore punk fans. The band presented a stylized tribal identity around their appearance and their music that fans embraced; Thompson asserts this represented "the first time since the Sex Pistols' Bromley Contingent fanbase a band had succeeded in grafting its own identity onto its audience without first paying obeisance to the gods of highstreet fashion. Their stage antics became notorious early in their career, with Bators stunts on one occasion reportedly resulting in his clinical death for several minutes.
The band experienced moderate chart success, with their debut album peaking at #3 on the UK Indy Charts, 1984's Method to Our Madness hitting 156 in the US, and the 1985 Killer Lords compilation reaching #22 on the UK Indy Charts. Charting singles included "New Church" (#34 UK Indy), "Open Your Eyes" (#7 UK Indy; #27 Mainstream Rock) and a cover of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" (#22 UK Indy), but the success of "Dance With Me" - a song that according to Dave Thompson's Alternative Rock came "close to a hit" - was hampered when the video directed by Derek Jarman was pulled from MTV's rotation for concerns about child pornography.
Bators died after being struck by a car in Paris in 1990.
Reformation
According to Adam Becvare, vocalist of The LustKillers, founding members Brian James and Dave Tregunna reformed The Lords of the New Church in 2003 with him replacing Bators on vocals.
Original members
- Stiv Bators – vocals
- Brian James – guitar
- Dave Tregunna – bass guitar, backing vocals
- Nicky Turner – drums, backing vocals
Discography
Studio albums
- The Lords of the New Church (1982)
- Is Nothing Sacred? (1983)
- The Method to Our Madness (1984)
- Psycho Sex (EP) (1987)
- Hang On (2003)
Live albums
- Live at the Spit (1988)
- Second Coming (1988)
Compilation albums
- Killer Lords (1985)
- The Anthology (2000, France only)
- The Lord's Prayer I (2002)
- The Lord's Prayer II (2003)
Singles
| Year | Song | U.S. | Canada | Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | "New Church" | The Lords of the New Church | ||
| "Open Your Eyes" | 34 | |||
| "Russian Roulette" | ||||
| 1983 | "Live for Today" | 91 | Is Nothing Sacred? | |
| "Dance with Me" | 85 | |||
| 1984 | "M Style" | 97 | The Method to Our Madness | |
| 1985 | "Like a Virgin" | Killer Lords | ||
| 1987 | "Dance With Me (Re-Recorded)" | |||
| 1989 | "Making Time" |
References
- Thompson, Dave (1 November 2000). Alternative Rock. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 466. ISBN 978-0-87930-607-6. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ Cassel, Bill. "The Lords of the New Church". Allmusic. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ Thompson (2000), p. 467.
- "The Lords". lustkillers.com. October 1 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Top Singles - Volume 37, No. 11, October 30, 1982". RPM. Archived at Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved November 3, 2009.
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