Our new album, "WELL ... YOU STARTED IT!" was released on 8th October 2007 by Detour Records
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Well ... you started it! ... well we might have done, but these four musicians from Swinton, Manchester have come up with the goods again! Originally formed back in 1978 these kids saw what was happening around them with the likes of The Buzzcocks, Slaughter and the dogs, The Drones, Joy Division and wanted some of it!

Then releasing their highly aclaimed anthem "The kids just wanna dance" back in 1979 they have gone from strength to strength. They are more popular now then they ever were, just take a look on the internet and at the ever popular myspace pages. They can be heard and seen on the majority of these pages from the USA & Canada, Japan, and throughout Europe. Kids that weren't even born cite them as an influence!

This new album features classic tracks from the 70's that were lost in time and now re-recorded but with the same old passion alongside new tracks that will become anthems in their own rights!
After the success of their first album "Coming ... ready or not!", you know what you are in for !!!!!

Detour Records

THE VIDEOS ARE NOW ON A NEW PAGE or check this out

The Deeply Vale festivals DVD is out now and features footage of us from 1979 and a modern day interview with Steve & Stuart Murray (2004).

To buy your copy contact:
Ozit Morpheus Records
PO Box 116
Northwich
Cheshire CW9 5UG

Telephone orders (Switch, Maestro, Mastercard, Visa accepted) on 01565 734066 or 01565 734577 Email orders to Ozit Records

FAST CARS ON TOUR 2008-09

Want to be our friend? We already have OVER 2,200

Our music has been played over 91,500 times on myspace, check it out - we have "iNstant popstars" playing from our new album out on DETOUR RECORDS plus a couple of unreleased demos!! Here's a great message from our myspace page from Paul Ryder, Happy Mondays:

"If ide have been at my house in Worsley at the time i wud have gone to the gig. Last time i saw you guys play was at my school disco.. ambrose barlow.. swinton.. I was 14yrs old..1979. You inspired me to be in a band..Grt to hear you again.."
Paul Ryder..Happy Mondays..

...Not bad eh??!!

At last we have been featured in a book, No More Heroes: A Complete History Of UK Punk From 1976 To 1980 by Alex Ogg.
Alex Ogg is a London-based author, he is the former editor of Spiral Scratch magazine and has written dozens of liner notes for punk bands including the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Undertones, Penetration, Adverts, Skids, Ruts, Sham 69 and many others.

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Another find!!. Paul Wainwright has been trawling through his vast amount of memoribilia and found this poster from 1978, when we supported XTC at Rafters Club, Manchester.

Paul was in the audience that night

We feature at 19 in the May 2006 edition of "Record Collector."
Did you know there are 4 different versions of "The Kids just wanna dance" ??
for more on that !!

To buy our album COMING ... READY OR NOT !!
- read the 5 STAR review.

to read the sleeve notes written by Marc (lard) Riley from the BBC, ex The Fall etc.

to buy in JAPAN - read three 5 STAR reviews !!

to buy in USA - read two 5 STAR reviews !

Who Loves Jimmy Anderton?, a barb at the controversial Mancunian Chief of Police, is the best song the Buzzcocks never wrote, but it's The Kids Just Wanna Dance, a number the group debuted here and later recorded as a single, that best encapsulates their style. Fast and furious, wildly anthemic, and lashed with flashing and flaming lead guitar, the band slammed pop-punk into street punk with mighty abandon. With their tough sound, blazing delivery, and madly melodic music, the Fast Cars were cruising straight into the modern age, creating a sound more in keeping with modern hardcore than second-wave punk rock. So here they are, revved up and ready to go -- the Fast Cars in all their original glory.
~ Jo-Ann Greene, All Music Guide

TO ORDER

Hear "Who loves Jimmy Anderton" for the first time in 25 years, also "Tears are over" and "Teenage 'art" two more un-released songs written in 1978 !!!
for short mp3's from the album

for album reviews from the UK, USA, and Germany

For more of us at Deeply Vale 1979

Fast Cars on iLike - Get updates inside iTunes

JAPANESE INTERVIEW OF FAST CARS

Here are some photos from a Japanese site, taken by someone in the crowd
at one of our 2001 TOKYO gigs

to see a Japanese fan's page about us !!!

for another Japanese fan's page

For a Japanese review ... Hope this is good??!!

Some fanzine reviews

for some more old photos have turned up, this time live at Feltham Air Park in Middx 1979,

FOR ANOTHER DISCOVERY !!
Photographer Martin O'Neill took photos of Fast Cars at Bowdon Vale Youth Club on 7th March 1979.

FOR PHOTOS FROM GIGS 1990 - 2006

for some photos from our Rome gig "The road to ruins festival, Nov 2006

FAST CARS ON THE TELLY !!!!

What's on - Granada TV 1979

T SHIRTS FOR SALE
Tara and her friends have got them why don't you ??
(and send us a photo wearing it and we will put it on the site !!)

BACKGROUND

Fast Cars were formed in 1978 by myself and brother Steven. We had been in a band together at Moorside High School in Swinton, Manchester, (1974-76) but Steve was interested in forming a punk band the rest of us were more into rock, Deep Purple, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Bowie Etc. so he went off, put an add in a music shop, and formed a band called "The Sirens" with Marc Riley, Craig Scanlon and Steve Hanley.

They were not very good at that time (although they later joined The Fall and guitarist Marc 'Lard' Riley is now a Presenter for the BBC on Radio 1 and TV), so me and Steve got our old mates together and formed Fast Cars. Our school days guitarist was Craig Hilton but he was doing something else, so our original line up was; Steve Murray vocals (and main songwriter) Haydn Jones on lead, Me on Bass and Tony Dyson on drums. After about 6 months Haydn left and Craig Hilton re joined us and that is who played on the single "The Kids Just Wanna Dance".

We had 2 songs on "A Manchester Collection" LP, released by Manchester's Object Records (bands from the Manchester Musicians Collective) that we had recorded at Cargo Studios in Rochdale with John Brierley. Our first single "Images of you" should have been released on TJM Records but we fell out with the owner, Tony Davidson so it was never released. We also did 2 tracks for Identity Parade but they were removed before the final pressing.

We eventually signed to Streets Ahead Records, based in Altrincham, Cheshire, and released the now very collectable "The Kids Just Wanna Dance" and "You're So Funny" which was recorded at Smile Studios, in Chorlton, Manchester, produced by us and the owner Steve Foley, during 22/23 August, 1979.

We recorded a follow up single for Streets Ahead, "Images of you" (SA 4) although it was never released a few test pressings are in circulation.

We played up and down England between 1978 and 1980 and had a good following. We supported The Jam, The Buzzcocks, XTC, The Rezillos, Dillinger, The Chords, Bram Tchaikovsky and played with bands including The Ruts, Joy Division, The Stiffs, The Extras, The Drones, Frantic Elevators, The Freshies, The Smirks, Ed Banger, John Cooper-Clarke,The Out, IQ Zero, Not Sensibles, Salford Jets, Two Tone Pinks, Sister Ray, and others, we played at the Marquee in London and various Universities, Colleges and Clubs.
We were nearly signed to Polydor, (we actually made demos in their studios in London) and for a short time we were looked after by Dennis Munday who was A&R man to The Jam, but it never happened, we eventually called it a day in January 1981......... but due to popular demand we reformed officially in 2001 and are currently giging and recording, and enjoying ourselves !!!

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