Buzzcocks
Now fronted by Steve Diggle, the band play UK shows spread out between March and August.
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“The set is now three quarters the songs that I wrote. And the ones Pete and I wrote together, like Fast Cars and Promises, were usually mine.”
Formed in Manchester in 1976, Buzzcocks notched an impressive run of his singles and albums, and even had their name used for the title of a TV quiz show. The passing of singer, guitarist and writer Pete Shelley in 2018 threatened to end it all, but co-guitarist Steve Diggle had other ideas.
Six years into what we must term the post-Shelley era of Buzzcocks, what would a school report say of the band’s progress?
That it’s going incredibly well. The band has a new spirit. It’s the right thing for these times and every gig has been incredible. You have to move on, and that’s what we’ve done. I don’t know whether people realise that we have introduced some more of my songs [to the live shows], and we also had an album out a year ago, so that moves us away from being a heritage act.