Arts & Culture
Cum feel the noize this December with Slade!

For two shows, the legendary Slade will be heading to Salisbury and Oxford during their December tour.

Slade are one  of  the  most  exciting  bands  to  come  out  of  Great Britain in the past 30 years. With their unique blend of perfect pop-rock’n'roll, outrageous  flamboyance  and  pure  fun.

Slade’s chart career has spanned three decades and their enduring songs Cum On  Feel  The  Noize  and  Coz  I  Luv  You  are  still  featured  today in TV commercials for some of the Worlds biggest companies.

Slade first hit the road in 1966, touring throughout Great Britain and Europe and  becoming  a  regular  concert  attraction.  Joining  forces  with  the  former Animals bass guitarist and Jimi Hendrix Experience manager, Chas Chandler, Slade achieved their first chart hit in May 1971 with the Bobby Marchan song Get Down And Get With It then, released in October of the same year, Coz I Luv You was the band’s first number one and a huge hit across Europe.

Throughout the seventies,  Slade became one of Europe’s biggest bands, touring and recording continually and making regular trips to America, Japan and other parts of the world. Slade’s catalogue of hits are synonymous with the era: Take Me Bak ‘Ome, Mama We’er All Crazee Now, Cum On Feel The Noize,  Gudbye  T’  Jane, along  with  the  many  others  provided a soundtrack to the Glam Generation and are still today, heavily featured on any retrospective of the time.

At the beginning of the eighties, Slade were invited to appear at the Reading Rock  Festival,  a  massive annual event which attracted over 100,000 people. They literally stole the show, giving some of the worlds biggest rock bands a serious run for their money whilst kindling  new  interest  from  a whole new audience. As result, the band signed a new record deal and unleashed  the anthem We’ll Bring The House Down, which reached the Top 10 in the UK in January 1981.

Not  content  to  rest  on  their  Glam  laurels, Slade began forging a new path through the  hugely influential British heavy rock scene. A  second successful appearance  at  Castle  Donnington  in  1981, before a crowd of over 200,000 2 people, consolidated  the  bands  position  and  paved the way for the single Lock Up Your Daughters, and the album Til Deaf Do Us Part.

While  Slade were busy in the UK releasing the massive hit  My Oh  My  to huge  acclaim,  LA  metal  band  Quiet Riot were spreading  the word Stateside with their version of Cum  On  Feel  The  Noize, which proved so  successful that they followed it up with Mama We’er All Crazee Now. Throughout the rest of the eighties Slade toured and recorded due to them once again being a major force in British pop’n'rock.

The early ninties saw the bands Radio Wall Of Sound hit the UK Top-30 and thereby give Slade a solid 20 year chart run!

In  1993, due to the continual demand from around  the world, founder Slade members Dave Hill and Don Powell decided to return to touring by playing a few select dates in Europe prior to embarking on what turned out to be a very successful two month tour of Australia.

Slade have continued to tour the world. They are firm favourites on the lucrative German   festival  scene and undertake an annual UK Merry Christmas Everybody tour in December.

Led by founder members Dave Hill and Don Powell, the bands latest additions are ex Mud bass guitarist John Berry, frequently spied in the guise of the Big Issue seller in Eastenders, and new lead vocalist Mal McNulty.

Slade today is still one of the most exciting bands on the road, and their stage performance  is  a  dynamic, powerful and exhilarating roller-coaster ride of pure unadulterated rock’n'roll.

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For Salisbury’s City Hall, December 14, click here.

For Oxford’s O2 Academy, December 21, click here.