The Nosebleeds
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The Nosebleeds was a short-lived punk band formed in Wythenshawe
, Manchester
, England
in 1976. Though the band never recorded an album and released just one single, it is well known in modern rock history for the later successes of its individual members. During their early days, they were known as Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds, until the departure of singer Ed Banger (Ed Garrity).
and Ludus
, (where he was known as Tomanov, instead of Toman), who got together informally to play Beatles covers and later heavy metal. Edmund Garrity later went on to be a singer and collaborated with various artists.
supported the Sex Pistols
along with the Buzzcocks
at Manchester
's Lesser Free Trade Hall
. The Sex Pistols
were returning to the Hall after a legendary 4 June concert that served as a catalyst for Manchester's fledgling music scene.
Eddie Garrity worked the 20 July gig as a roadie for Slaughter & the Dogs. When the crowd became violent and he and a friend were injured, someone said, "You're a right bloody mob aren't you? Headbanger here and him with a nosebleed", inspiring Wild Ram's transformation into Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds.
Vini Reilly
, later of The Durutti Column
played guitar
, Garrity (Ed Banger) sang, Tomanov (Toby) played drums
and Peter Crookes played bass
.
The newly-christened group changed their image and sound to concord with the punk movement and released the single "I Ain't Been to No Music School"/"Fascist Pigs" on Rabid Records. It sold 10,000 copies but failed to launch the band to success (possibly due to management issues).
At The Roxy
in London the band played the same two songs over and over. "The audience went absolutely berserk", Reilly said, "and consequently we were asked to play again and again, because that was what was required."
The band began to argue over money and shortly thereafter, Garrity and Reilly left the band.
, later of The Smiths
, replaced Garrity and Billy Duffy
, later of Theatre of Hate
and The Cult
, replaced Reilly.
The new lineup played several gigs, one of which was well reviewed in the New Musical Express. "The Nosebleeds re-surface boasting a Front Man With Charisma, always an advantage", wrote reviewer Paul Morley
. "Lead singer is now minor local legend Steven Morrisey, who, in his own way, is at least aware that rock 'n' roll is about magic, and inspiration."
Morrissey's compositions with the band included "I Get Nervous" and "(I Think) I'm Ready for the Electric Chair."
The band split up in 1978. Morrissey went on to form The Smiths
, while Toby joined Ludus
and, alongside Crookes, went to reteam with Reilly in The Durutti Column, recording the debut album of the band, The Return of the Durutti Column
, released in 1979.
and The Fall as Ed Banger and His Group Therapy. Garrity went on to release three more singles under the Ed Banger moniker: 1978's "Kinnel Tommy" (on Rabid Records, which was rereleased later that year by EMI
), 1981's "I've Just Had Me Car Nicked" (on Spiv Records), and 1983's "Poor People" (on Cloud Nine Records). Also in 1979 he released a single under the name Eddi Fiction.
In 1979-80 he Joined "Slaughter & the Dogs for "the Bite Back album and singles "I'm the One" and "East Side of Town."
In 1991, under the name Sound of the Baskerville, Eddie Garrity released a compilation of Nosebleeds, Slaughter & the Dogs and Ed Banger tracks together with new material.
In 2005, vintage 1977 documentary "The Rise And Fall Of The Nosebleeds – Punk Rediscovered", directed and edited by Bob Jones and John Crumpton, premiered in Salford.
As of 2006, Eddie Garrity is "fronting a '70s glam band called Edwina's Rockschool." (MOJO Classic Magazine, Volume 1 Issue 13, Page 27)
in 2008 under the name "Edweenas Party" two albums were released Transister pop and Transister rock (www.edweenasparty.com).
2009 continues gigging the UK club circuit with Edweenas Party.
2010 Back under Ed Banger releases new Lofi album Bingo Town. (www.edbanger.net)
Phillip "Toby" Tomanov was last spotted gigging in Weymouth with various bands including The Inhalers and more recently, Panic Attack
includes "Ain't Bin to No Music School"
Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe is a district in the south of the city of Manchester, England.Formerly part of the administrative county of Cheshire, in 1931 Wythenshawe was transferred to the City of Manchester, which had begun building a massive housing estate there in the 1920s to resolve the problem of its inner...
, Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
in 1976. Though the band never recorded an album and released just one single, it is well known in modern rock history for the later successes of its individual members. During their early days, they were known as Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds, until the departure of singer Ed Banger (Ed Garrity).
Wild Ram
The Nosebleeds' precursor Wild Ram formed around the nucleus of Edmund Garrity, and Phillip "Toby" Toman, later of Primal ScreamPrimal Scream
Primal Scream are a Scottish alternative rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie and now based in London. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes , Martin Duffy , and Darrin Mooney...
and Ludus
Ludus
Luduș is a town in central Romania in Mureș County, 44 km south-west from the county's capital Târgu Mureș.Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămeşti , Cioarga , Ciurgău , Fundătura , Gheja and Roșiori .-History:* 1330 - First mentioned as Plehanus de...
, (where he was known as Tomanov, instead of Toman), who got together informally to play Beatles covers and later heavy metal. Edmund Garrity later went on to be a singer and collaborated with various artists.
Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds
On 20 July 1976 fellow Wythenshawe band Slaughter & The DogsSlaughter & The Dogs
Slaughter & The Dogs is an English punk rock band that formed in the late 1970s in Manchester, England. They were one of the first UK punk bands to sign for a major label, Decca Records.-Career:...
supported the Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
along with the Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley.They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock. They achieved commercial...
at Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
's Lesser Free Trade Hall
Free Trade Hall
The Free Trade Hall, Peter Street, Manchester, was a public hall constructed in 1853–6 on St Peter's Fields, the site of the Peterloo Massacre and is now a hotel. The hall was built to commemorate the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. The architect was Edward Walters The hall subsequently was...
. The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
were returning to the Hall after a legendary 4 June concert that served as a catalyst for Manchester's fledgling music scene.
Eddie Garrity worked the 20 July gig as a roadie for Slaughter & the Dogs. When the crowd became violent and he and a friend were injured, someone said, "You're a right bloody mob aren't you? Headbanger here and him with a nosebleed", inspiring Wild Ram's transformation into Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds.
Vini Reilly
Vini Reilly
Vincent "Vini" Gerard Reilly is an English musician and leader of the post-punk group The Durutti Column.-Biography:...
, later of The Durutti Column
The Durutti Column
The Durutti Column are an English post-punk band formed in 1978 in Manchester, England. The band is an ongoing project of guitarist Vini Reilly who is often accompanied by drummer Bruce Mitchell. Other current members are Keir Stewart and Reilly's girlfriend Poppy Morgan...
played guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, Garrity (Ed Banger) sang, Tomanov (Toby) played drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
and Peter Crookes played bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
.
The newly-christened group changed their image and sound to concord with the punk movement and released the single "I Ain't Been to No Music School"/"Fascist Pigs" on Rabid Records. It sold 10,000 copies but failed to launch the band to success (possibly due to management issues).
At The Roxy
The Roxy
The Roxy was a fashionable nightclub on Neal Street in London's Covent Garden, known for hosting the flowering British punk music scene in its infancy.-Brief history:...
in London the band played the same two songs over and over. "The audience went absolutely berserk", Reilly said, "and consequently we were asked to play again and again, because that was what was required."
The band began to argue over money and shortly thereafter, Garrity and Reilly left the band.
Nosebleeds (mark II)
Manchester music fan Steven MorrisseyMorrissey
Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...
, later of The Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
, replaced Garrity and Billy Duffy
Billy Duffy
Billy Duffy is an English guitarist and songwriter, best known as the guitarist in The Cult.-Early days:He grew up in Manchester, where he began playing guitar at the age of fourteen...
, later of Theatre of Hate
Theatre of Hate
Theatre of Hate were a post-punk band formed in Britain in 1980.Led by singer-songwriter and ex-member of punk band The Pack, Kirk Brandon, the original group also consisted of: guitarist Steve Guthrie, bassist Stan Stammers , saxophonist John Lennard and drummer Luke Rendle from Crisis/The...
and The Cult
The Cult
The Cult are a British rock band that was formed in 1983. They gained a dedicated following in Britain in the mid 1980s as a post-punk band with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary", before breaking mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s as a hard rock band with singles such as "Love...
, replaced Reilly.
The new lineup played several gigs, one of which was well reviewed in the New Musical Express. "The Nosebleeds re-surface boasting a Front Man With Charisma, always an advantage", wrote reviewer Paul Morley
Paul Morley
Paul Morley is an English journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications...
. "Lead singer is now minor local legend Steven Morrisey, who, in his own way, is at least aware that rock 'n' roll is about magic, and inspiration."
Morrissey's compositions with the band included "I Get Nervous" and "(I Think) I'm Ready for the Electric Chair."
The band split up in 1978. Morrissey went on to form The Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
, while Toby joined Ludus
Ludus
Luduș is a town in central Romania in Mureș County, 44 km south-west from the county's capital Târgu Mureș.Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămeşti , Cioarga , Ciurgău , Fundătura , Gheja and Roșiori .-History:* 1330 - First mentioned as Plehanus de...
and, alongside Crookes, went to reteam with Reilly in The Durutti Column, recording the debut album of the band, The Return of the Durutti Column
The Return of the Durutti Column
The Return of the Durutti Column is the debut album by The Durutti Column. It was originally released in 1980 on Factory Records and the original 2000 LP sleeves were made of sandpaper, assembled by members of Joy Division...
, released in 1979.
Ed Banger, Therapy Group
After The Nosebleeds folded, Eddie Garrity supported PenetrationPenetration (band)
Penetration is a punk rock band from County Durham, England formed in 1976. They re-formed in 2001 with several new members.Their debut single, "Don’t Dictate", is now acknowledged as a classic punk rock single and their debut album, Moving Targets , is still widely admired-Biography:The lead...
and The Fall as Ed Banger and His Group Therapy. Garrity went on to release three more singles under the Ed Banger moniker: 1978's "Kinnel Tommy" (on Rabid Records, which was rereleased later that year by EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
), 1981's "I've Just Had Me Car Nicked" (on Spiv Records), and 1983's "Poor People" (on Cloud Nine Records). Also in 1979 he released a single under the name Eddi Fiction.
In 1979-80 he Joined "Slaughter & the Dogs for "the Bite Back album and singles "I'm the One" and "East Side of Town."
In 1991, under the name Sound of the Baskerville, Eddie Garrity released a compilation of Nosebleeds, Slaughter & the Dogs and Ed Banger tracks together with new material.
In 2005, vintage 1977 documentary "The Rise And Fall Of The Nosebleeds – Punk Rediscovered", directed and edited by Bob Jones and John Crumpton, premiered in Salford.
As of 2006, Eddie Garrity is "fronting a '70s glam band called Edwina's Rockschool." (MOJO Classic Magazine, Volume 1 Issue 13, Page 27)
in 2008 under the name "Edweenas Party" two albums were released Transister pop and Transister rock (www.edweenasparty.com).
2009 continues gigging the UK club circuit with Edweenas Party.
2010 Back under Ed Banger releases new Lofi album Bingo Town. (www.edbanger.net)
Phillip "Toby" Tomanov was last spotted gigging in Weymouth with various bands including The Inhalers and more recently, Panic Attack
Discography
The Nosebleeds - "Ain't Bin To No Music School"/"Fascist Pigs"- Label: Rabid Records
- Catalog #: TOSH 102
- Format: 7"
- Country: UK
- Released: July 1977
Compilation Appearances
StreetsStreets (punk album)
Streets is a compilation album of early British punk rock bands from a variety of independent record labels . It was an attempt at an end of year ‘round up’ and, significantly, was the first album released on Beggars Banquet Records .The sleeve notes stated that: "1977 was the year that the music...
includes "Ain't Bin to No Music School"
- Label: Beggar's Banquet Records
- Catalog # BEGA1
- Format: Vinyl LP
- Country: UK
- Released: 1977
External links
- http://www.edbanger.net/
- http://www.hiljaiset.sci.fi/punknet/nosebl_e.htm
- http://www.morrissey-solo.com/articles/01/06/14/070241.shtml
- http://web.archive.org/web/20051113011810/http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/entertainment/music/indieandrock/s/147/147099_punk_film_premiere__28_years_on.html
- http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/nosebleedsinterview.htm
- http://www.myspace.com/nosebleedspunk