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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 […]
Whilst cruising The Chameleons’ online store looking for things to buy yesterday, I happened upon this listing for a new release – Elevated Living: Live in Manchester, London, and Barcelona – a new CD/DVD set compiling three of their early live shows which have been kicking around as bootleg and unofficial releases for many years. […]
I’m very disappointed in myself that at almost four months into running this blog, I’ve only had one post dedicated to The Chameleons; after all, my ongoing obsession with the band was one of the factors that made me want to start blogging again. And so, here’s one of the choicest bits of Chameleons content […]
Because I’m that kind of nerd, back in the day (the days in question being the ’90s), I would spend an inordinate amount of time both hunting down back issues of American and British guitar magazines and waiting for new issues of same to come out, mostly hoping for coverage of or better, song transcription […]
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. The album is Return Of The Roughnecks – Live at The Ritz Manchester 1, and the description on many of the UK retailers implied that […]
