A.D.1984
This song by A.D.1984 is just so f***ing infectious. Shades of The Stranglers, and God knows what else. Get it! Listen to it! Love it! It’s a peach. Supposedly was from from a forthcoming album Paradox but it never saw the light of the day. The band kept going, albeit low key, and they managed four more singles in the same dystopian vein with lyric sheet inserts and no band pictures spaced out over the next four years before aptly disappearing in (AD) 1983 with one last hurrah Time (Through Everybody’s Eyes).
Voyage International was a reggae funk label startred in 1979 so quite how A.D.1984 ended up there is a mystery waiting to be cleared up.
BAND: Bass – Peter Stevenson, Bass [Solo] – Glenn Howard, Drums – John Bell, keyboards – Adrian York, Rhythm Guitar – Dave Fancourt & Vocals – Rob Ross
This though is the classic you want, with its double bass propelled driven frenetic romp. Surprisingly none of A.D.1984 have surfaced to give their story and no doubt punk music licensers throughout the world wait ever expectant for fresh punk (blood) to re-issue.
@howardbastard left this spelling & grammatically challenged comment on YouTube which is right in spirit if not in action!
“I’m a skinhead I’m 20 and I’m from london, I’ve been listening to punk for years but not 1 song has ever made me want to smash up everything as soon as I hear it being played, I discovered this song last year and all I can say is A.d 1984 should of definately made more songs!!! fucking brilliant!!!“
“The enemy is coming.. the enemy is coming !!!!!”
