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After months – years? – of teasing, The Chameleons have finally revealed full details of their forthcoming fifth studio album, Arctic Moon. It comprises seven new songs – only seven, after 24 years? – and arrives September 12. The single “Where Are You Now?”, released a year ago as the first recording of the new […]
Pretty quiet day on the internet if you’re not a retail outlet, so I’ll wrap up the week/month with this complete live Chameleons show, professionally recorded in multi-camera style by French filmmaker Sébastien Faits-Divers, from almost exactly a year ago in Porto, Portugal. This was not one of the Strange Times shows that kept the […]
Thanks again to KEXP for being an unending fount of great content this Fall – this time, it’s The Chameleons who stopped in at the Seattle radio station’s studios during the west coast leg of their Strange Times tour this Summer. The played a generous six-song set with four of the Strange Times album tracks, […]
Following a break to return home to the UK to recharge, The Chameleons kicked off the second leg of their Strange Times North American tour last week, running through next week before breaking again for a final run of US dates in October. I’m particularly looking forward to tomorrow night’s show in Toronto as last […]
While fans have been blessed with a steady stream of archival releases, live documents, and reissues it has been almost a quarter-century since there’s been new music from The Chameleons proper: 2021’s Why Call It Anything?, which the band – reunited after after 15 years – managed to write, track, and tour before in-fighting and […]
With the confirmation that the current lineup of The Chameleons is in the studio recording new music, let’s take a quick look back at the release that was supposed to be their fourth album following 1986’s Strange Times. But as is typical in the stories of bands who are doomed to be under-appreciated, fate intervened. […]
As one of their signature songs, finding a decent live video of The Chameleons playing “Swamp Thing” shouldn’t be as hard as it is, not including phone clips taken from their just-completed Deja Vu tour with The Mission over the last couple months; those shows were great and it’s wonderful that Mark and Reg are […]
It’s been a rough Autumn to be a Chameleons fan in North America, or Canada at least. Toronto, for sure. First, the band – less the “Vox” moniker on account of the return of guitarist Reg Smithies – was supposed to embark on a North American tour with The Mission, but that whole tour was […]
It’s a bit of an odd thing to end up being the source of news about one of your favourite bands that you’d rather be reading about than writing, but here we are. The Chameleons continue their interesting/frustrating habit of putting out new releases without going to too much trouble to let people know about […]
Interpersonal tensions aside, the passing of drummer John Lever in 2017 pretty much put an end to hopes for any kind of follow-up to The Chameleons‘ fourth album, 2001’s Why Call It Anything. Fans have done alright with finding things to buy thanks to a steady stream of reissues of their studio albums and ’80s […]
