Chameleons vox youtube tv#

Chameleons vox youtube tv#

Vomit / Litterbug / Red London / Migrana Social / Tiger Sex / Popes of Chillitown / Church of Confidence / Spunk Volcano And The Eruptions / Ignite / Moscow Death Brigade / TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers / Subhumans / Steve Ignorant / Hung Like Hanratty / Motorheadache / The Exploited / Discharge / GBH / M.D.C. At least his Chameleons/Vox replacements Neil Dwerryhouse (in the UK) and Andru Aesthetik (in North America) both have the correct gear in the Micro-Frets Swinger.Cockney Rejects / The Skids / Circle Jerks / Anti-Flag / Wonk Unit / Svetlanas / Riskee & The Ridicule / Janus Stark / Desperate Measures / The Ramonas / Sham 69 / The Blockheads / Slaughter Bite Back / The Professionals / Booze & Glory / Infa Riot / Newtown Neurotics / IDestroy / The Bolokos / Cock Sparrer / The Last Resort / Gimp Fist / 999 / Arch Rivals / Los Fastidios / Asfixia Social / Stiff Little Fingers / Ruts DC / UK Subs / Peat & Diesel / Chelsea / The Avengers / Random Hand / The Cundeez / Backstreet Abortions / The Bar Stool Preachers / The Boys / Johnny Moped / Spizzenergi / In Evil Hour / Dirtbox Disco / Knock Off / Spider / M.DM. Guitarist Dave Fielding appears to be the last holdout, though interestingly in 2019 he worked with Jack Sobel’s Black Swan Lane project (here’s another Big Takeover interview with details), which had already counted Burgess and Lever amongst its collaborators. It’s a shame the original lineup will never be able to come back together properly 2 John Lever passed away in 2017.

In any case, it’s a great-sounding document of what was surely a great show from a band that I’m happy continues to exist in some form. I had missed his visit in October 2015 at The Garrison because a) I was being a snob about it not being the proper Chameleons, whom I had gotten to see at The Phoenix back in 2000, and b) I was in Pittsburgh.Īnd so it is that this new live record says ChameleonsVox on the album art but is or at least has been listed as a Chameleons release in shop listings (some of them have apparently changed to ‘ChameleonsVox’ to avoid the confusion I’ve been working through right here). It’s also a good read for getting a handle on all his various post-Chameleons projects, which have been legion.Īnd that’s how it was billed when he was at Lee’s Palace in November 2019 for a stellar show (from whence the above photo was taken). But point being, “The Chameleons” hadn’t been an active entity in some 17 years.īut maybe Burgess was looking to change that – referencing this interview from September 2017 with The Big Takeover, he indicates that if Smithies is playing with him, and thus half the original band is in the lineup, he feels justified in just calling it The Chameleons. When Burgess has come to North America, he has a different backing band. Bassist/vocalist Mark Burgess has been carrying on the band’s legacy since 2009 as ChameleonsVox 2 with a revolving cast of players that have at times included original drummer John Lever and guitarist Reg Smithies, at least in the UK.

Which is tricky because the Chameleons reunion of the early aughts – which yielded the Strip, Why Call It Anything?, and This Never Ending Now albums – ended in 2003.

The album is Return Of The Roughnecks – Live at The Ritz Manchester 1, and the description on many of the UK retailers implied that it was The Chameleons – the original band – in performance in December 2019.Īlmost 35 years on, The Chameleons return once again, to one of Manchester’s most iconic venues, playing the original set they played that evening… – from Drift Records listing Listings for a new Chameleons live record have had me a little confused of late, so I finally got around to doing the leg work to understanding what it is.