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Biography
Infobox musical artist | name = Angelic Upstarts| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = South Shields , England| genre = Oi! , punk rock | years_active = 1977& ndash;present| label = Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros. , EMI , Anagram Records|Anagram , Picasso Records|Picasso , Link Records|Link , Razor Records|Razor , Captain Oi& #33; Records|Captain Oi! | associated_acts =| website = http://www.angelicupstarts.net/ www.angelicupstarts.net| current_members = Thomas 'Mensi' Mensforth Dickie Hammond Neil Newton Gaz Stoker Decca Wade| past_members = Chris Wright Mond Cowie Steve Forsten Sticks Warrington Glyn Warren Paul Thompson Tony Feedback Brian Hayes Derwent Jaconelli Ronnie Rocker Max Splodge Tony van Frater Lainey Graham LantAngelic Upstarts are an English punk rock / Oi! band formed in South Shields in 1977.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p12222|pure_url=yesAngelic Upstarts Biography. Allmusic . URL accessed July 3, 2006. The band espoused an Anti-fascism|anti-fascist and Socialism|socialist working class philosophy, and have been associated with the skinhead subculture . More than two decades after its release, their debut single, "The Murder Of Liddle Towers ", was included in Mojo (magazine)|Mojo magazine’s list of the best punk rock singles of all time.Mojo (October 2001) - 100 Punk Scorchers , Issue 95, London;
Career
The band's original members were Thomas Mensforth (Mensi) on vocals, Ray Cowie (Mond) on guitar , Steve Forsten on bass guitar , and Derek "Decca" Wade on Drum kit|drums . Keith Bell was the manager until 1980 when he was jailed for four and a half years for arson.cite web|last=Bradbury |first=Jennifer |url= http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/tm_objectid=16853928& method=full& siteid=50081& headline=still-crazy-after-all-these-years-name_page.html |title=Still crazy after all these years |publisher=ChronicleLive |date=2006-03-23 |accessdate=2012-04-01 The band has reformed and split a few times, and former members include bassists Ronnie Wooden, Glyn Warren, Tony Feedback (now in Long Tall Shorty and Kiria (musician)|Kiria 's live band), Ronnie Rocker and Max Splodge (who also had a stint playing drums). Other drummers have included Sticks (who later joined Cockney Rejects ), Paul Thompson (musician)|Paul Thompson (ex- Roxy Music ) and Chris White. Wade rejoined the band for a few years before leaving again. Hayes originally joined the band as second guitarist until Mond left, leaving Hayes as the only guitarist. Mensi was the only original member still in the band.
In August 2006, Mensi announced he was resigning, however he requested that the band continue with Chris Wright (of the band Crashed Out) on vocals. The band's lineup became Wright on vocals, Dickie Hammond on guitar, Neil Newton on guitar, Gaz Stoker on bass and Wade on drums. In the latter part of 2007, Mensi rejoined the band and the lineup became Mensi on vocals, Stoker on bass, Hammond on guitar, Newton on guitar and Brett Mulvaney on drums.
Discography
Studio albums
Teenage Warning (August 1979, Warner Bros. Records ) - #29 UK Albums Chart|UK & Albums">cite book
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We Gotta Get Out of this Place (Angelic Upstarts album)|We Gotta Get Out of this Place (April 1980, Warner Music Group|WEA ) - #54 UK
2,000,000 Voices (June 1981, Zonophone/ EMI ) - #32 UK
