performing with Bad Manners at
Club Citta, Japan, 1991 After Bad Manners disbanded for a brief spell after their deal with Portrait Records ended, Buster Bloodvessel formed a new outfit called Buster's Allstars in 1987, which enabled him and a few of his friends to continue performing in and around London. The capital's venues were often packed to capacity and this prompted the then 20 stone vocalist to reform Bad Manners with his fellow original members Louis Alphonso, Martin Stewart, Winston Bazoomies and Chris Kane. During 1988, the revamped Bad Manners band line-up started to play a number of shows at universities and at scooter rallies and they licensed the name and logo of
Blue Beat Records, setting up office inside a
barge called the Blood Vessel in the back garden of Buster Bloodvessel's former home in London. After Blue Beat became defunct in 1990, Bad Manners were without a recording contract, but continued to tour. In 1992, they signed a deal with Pork Pie Records and
Fat Sound was released in Europe. The album was originally intended to be released in the UK on Blue Beat. In 1996, Buster Bloodvessel moved to
Margate and opened a hotel on the seafront called Fatty Towers, which catered for people with huge appetites. Buster Bloodvessel is the only original member to remain in Bad Manners, but the harmonica player, Winston Bazoomies, was an 'honorary member' of the band. Bazoomies had a
Facebook fanpage set up in his honour and lived in North London. Martin Stewart left Bad Manners in 1991, and performed and recorded with
the Selecter for fifteen years. He now lives in Middlesex with his family, and most recently played the keyboards in a band called the Skatalysts. Louis Alphonso lives in Paris and released his
A Noir solo studio album on the French Fries record label in 2015, while his fellow musician, David Farren, left in 1987 after the band's contract with Portrait Records ended. Farren designed the original band logo, and painted the front cover of the album ''Gosh It's ... Bad Manners'' (1981). Chris Kane is a
session musician. He became a music teacher during the 1990s and also performed with
the Jordanaires after leaving Bad Manners. Brian Tuitt also left the band in 1987 and lives in Kent. The drummer has been performing with Ben Russell & the Charmers in recent times while also working with the Barry White Unlimited Love Tour at various venues in the UK, while Andrew Marson, who also left the group the same year, has worked as a carpenter and also performs in a
country and western outfit called the Drawbacks. Paul Hyman, another original member who left the band in the late 1980s, lives in Enfield and works in the
London Stock Exchange, an occupation he has had since leaving Bad Manners. Bad Manners headlined their own annual
music festival known as Bad Fest in 2005 and 2006 at
RAF Twinwood Farm. This festival featured ska,
mod-related and
punk rock bands from the 1980s to the present. In 2011,
Cherry Red Records released the band's first four studio albums, ''Ska 'n' B
(1980), Loonee Tunes!
(1980), Gosh It's ... Bad Manners
(1981) and Forging Ahead'' (1982) on
CD for the first time with added bonus tracks. The albums were issued on their sister label, Pressure Drop. In December 2012, the band released their first single in thirteen years. "What Simon Says" was released via download just before the festive season, and the
music video featured Bad Manners fans from across the world but none of the band members themselves. The song hints at the power
Simon Cowell has within the UK music industry. In December 2012, founding members of the band met for the first time in decades at the Ship public house in Soho, London. Paul Hyman, Martin Stewart, Brian Tuitt and Chris Kane met with band historian and harmonica player David Turner, and Christopher 'Dell' Wardell, a music writer and promoter from
Darlington. On 18 July 2013, seven of the original nine members reunited at The Brownswood public house, near
Finsbury Park, that is within striking distance of their old school, Woodbery Down Comprehensive. The 'Bad Manners Originals' who attended the reunion were Andy Marson (alto sax), Paul Hyman (trumpet), Winston Bazoomies (Alan Sayag) (harmonicas), Chris Kane (tenor sax), David Farren (bass), Martin Stewart (keyboards) and Brian Tuitt (drums). The meetings were arranged after Wardell's 'Where Are They Now?' article was published in
The Northern Echo in 2012, providing details on the current whereabouts of all of the original band members. During 2016, Bad Manners toured the United Kingdom to celebrate their 40th Anniversary. Original member Winston Bazoomies died on 1 December 2022, at the age of 63. The band are still touring the United Kingdom in 2025. ==Discography==