First establishing themselves in Ipswich, Suffolk, England as long ago as 1975, and putting out their first full length album on Dwed Records ‘Songs Of Praise’ in 1981, The Adicts have had decades to perfect their craft. They have had a few periods of inactivity during their career, but still have most of the original line-up in place, and don’t seem to have changed their musical ethos of providing urgent, uptempo music with light-hearted lyrics. Five years on from their last album, and probably their first major label signing since Sire nearly 35 years previously, the band are ready to keep pumping out music as they did in the Eighties when they were one of the most popular punk bands in the scene.
All these years on and they are still using the Clockwork Orange "droog" image, as can be seen on the artwork of ‘And It Was So!’, which makes sense as nothing else has been changing in the band, although the world has move on apace since they started more than 40 years ago! This is good old-fashioned punk, with a slightly more melodic and light-hearted take than Cockney Rejects, but with the same honesty and mentality. For those who want their punk to sound like it used to, before it became American and poppy.
