Hailing from Manchester, The Fast Cars were very under rated and never got the breaks they so deserved, often been likend to The Undertones and many punk related bands, judge for yourself, Punk, Mod, New Wave or even Indie! Who cares? They sound f'ing awesome!, thinking back to the good old days your mind always seems to link The Fast Cars with their awesome tune "The Kids Just Wanna Dance", well pass by anything else from that period and listen to this new offering from the powerpop kings!

Formed way back in October 1977 after following their punk counterparts, The Buzzcocks, The Drones & Joy Division the quartet of Steve Murray--vocals, Stuart Murray--bass guitar, Craig Hilton--guitar & Tony Dyson on drums released their first single way back in 1979 and have rightly so, grown from strength to strength to such a level that their are more popular now than they ever were with fansites on the net all over the globe! And the highest accolade newer bands of today cite them as Influences! Up steps the remarkable undisputed king of Revival, Dizzy and his Detour Records crew to conjour up this album featuring classic tracks from the 70`s that have been lost in time and now re-recorded for our listening pleasure!

Onto the tracks now..."Here We Are Today"...Steve Murray puts alot into the vocals on this track that you feel your back in the Mod Revival period, but it`s here we are today, "Penthouse Monkeys"... don`t know about penthouse, but this tune puts those other 'monkeys' to shame! I'm sure you get my meaning on that.., "Best Friend"...just realised im listening on my headset, sod that, main speakers, let the neighbours have a blast of the best band to come out of Manchester. "Teenage 'Art"...nice to hear a slower tune from these,very very well written song and the guitar work is exellent, "Instant Popstars"...ok sorry but I can't stop singing this song in my head, but why the hell do I keep singing instant pop tarts arrrggh, help me!
, "Way Of The World"...nice use of rythmm guitar in the background in this tune, quite a soulful song to be honest, "Who Loves Jimmy Anderton"...ok air guitar in hand and looking a fool as passersby see me through the window, "Tears Are Over"...this song reminds me of The Circles, sorry I hate to compare bands like that but hey I like The Circles too, so shhh!, "So James Dean"...a real foot tapper in it`s own right, classssssssssssss!, "Turn On The Radio"...ok Tony Dyson your the man on this tune, did you ever audition for The Who??, no, well hey your a mad man on the drums dude!, Ending this repetoire is, "Piece Of England"...the guys go to town on this tune, the union jack on their backs, nice touch on the lyrics there lads!

These guys will forever be part of our movement in one form or another, and are regular visitors to Mod Radio and are played alot and so they should!, Just to finish off this review, Do yourselves a favour buy this piece of Mod, Punk, Powerpop!! whatever you may call it!! Just get out and buy it!

Reviewed By Macky Mod Radio UK

Our new album, "WELL ... YOU STARTED IT!" was released on 8th October by Detour Records
short mp3's can be found here !!

Buy it HERE

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

5 reviews /2 comments so far CLICK HERE

VIDEOS NOW ON NEW VIDEO PAGE CLICK HERE 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 CLICK HERE for gigs

Want to be our friend? We already have OVER 2,000

Our music has been played over 63,000 times on myspace, check it out - we have "iNstant popstars" playing from our new album out on DETOUR RECORDS! Here's a message from our myspace page:

"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. To buy it CLICK HERE

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" ??
CLICK HERE for more on that !!

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

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

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

CLICK HERE 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 CLICK HERE

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 !!!
CLICK HERE for short mp3's from the album

CLICK HERE for album reviews from the UK, USA, and Germany

For more of us at Deeply Vale GO HERE

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 CLICK HERE

Check this out Japanese fan's page about us !!!

Here's another Japanese fan's page

Japanese review Hope this is good??!!

Some fanzine reviews HERE

Some more old photos have turned up, this time live at Feltham Air Park in Middx 1979, Click here

ANOTHER DISCOVERY !! Photographer Martin O'Neill took photos of Fast Cars at Bowdon Vale Youth Club on 7th March 1979.Click here to see some more of us in our hey day !!!

PHOTOS FROM GIGS 1990 - 2006

Some photos from our Rome gig "The road to ruins festival, Nov 2006 HERE

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 !!!