Adorable formed in September 1990. Prior to that the band was known as The Candy Thieves, and their only record included an early version of "Homeboy" and another song "Underwater" that fitted the then-current
baggy trend. The single was released on Trolley Records in 1990. However guitarist Wayne Peters left the band out of frustration with their lack of success and was replaced by Robert Dillam, prompting the name change to Adorable. Adorable's first gig was in Coventry at the Tic Toc club on the night that the first
Gulf War started in January 1991. After recording a 12" of "Sunshine Smile" ("I'll Be Your Saint" and "Breathless" on the
B-side) that was pressed up to be released on
record producer Pat Collier's 'Money To Burn'
record label, the band received a positive review in the
NME. However, the
single was never released. They signed to
Creation Records in 1992, and after a UK tour supporting
Curve, they released their first single, a re-recording of "Sunshine Smile", in April of that year. "Sunshine Smile" was
NME 'Single of the Week', and topped the
UK Indie Chart. The band released "I'll Be Your Saint", "Homeboy" and "
Sistine Chapel Ceiling" (another
NME Single of the Week), which all went into the Top 5 in the Indie chart. The band's relationship with much of the rest of the music press though was strained and quickly soured. Their
album,
Against Perfection was released in March 1993, and peaked at No. 70 in the
UK Albums Chart. The band
toured the
US,
Europe,
Australia and
Japan. The tour of Australia was later recalled as “disastrous” by the band where the "promoters did a runner on us and never paid us" with the money later recovered but not some of the band members' albums they had with them. The second album,
Fake, provided two singles "
Kangaroo Court" and "Vendetta", which again entered the UK Indie Chart, but the album failed to dent the mainstream UK Albums Chart. With strained relations within the band, the band were told they had been dropped by Creation (now owned by Sony) before a gig in
Colchester in 1994, whilst Fijalkowski went on to form the band Polak, who released two albums on
One Little Indian. Shortening his name to Pete Fij he joined up with guitarist
Terry Bickers of fellow former Creation label mate
The House of Love and
Levitation under the title of 'Pete Fij / Terry Bickers'; Kevin Gritton rose the ranks to becoming a Headteacher of a
comprehensive school in
Derby where he developed further to becoming the head of a school trust. On 7 May 2019, the band announced two reunion shows to take place in the UK, one at the Hebden Bridge Trades Club on 31 October 2019 and the other at Bush Hall, London on 2 November 2019. The tour was expanded to include an additional night at the Hebden Bridge Trades Club on the 30 October and an additional night at the Bush Hall on the 1 November. A final show was added at the Scala in London on 3 November. ==Discography==