[kj] Chameleons Home is Where The Heart Is

[Nick Scott]

One of my favourite bands and were very intense live.  Chameleons Vox playing
the stuff live has all gone sour though and Mark Burgess is a self indulgent
twat, but definitely check out their albums...to me they had the intensity of KJ
and are like a bastard child mix up of The Cure/Killing Joke/Echo And The
Bunnymen.

Criminally overlooked, the record label they originally signed to made them
ineligible if I remember right for the indie charts and besides some help by
John Peel sessions were stuck in no mans land.  The death of their manager when
they were finally signed to Geffen and beginning to get some successes was the
last straw.

Despite reforming in 2000 and a final album coming in 2001, they split again in
2002 and in 2009 saw the birth of Chameleons Vox between Mark Burgess (vocalist)
and John Lever (drummer) which then turned sour about 18 months ago with Lever
stating they conspired to 'oust' him out and Burgess calling it lies.  Splitting
fans, myself on the side of John after reading about Burgess's questionable
personality and antics.  Chameleons Vox whilst still worth checking out are
themselves a shadow of their former self.  Former Wonky Alice guitarist and well
known producer in the Manchester area Yves Altana who has played with Mark in
various outside Chameleons projects has put his hands to the drums, and whilst
competent enough is no match for Lever's drumming.

Check out particularly the first three Chameleons albums, Script Of The Bridge,
What Does Anything Mean Basically, Strange Times...all brilliant.

> On 29 January 2016 at 19:43 "adrianwason at btinternet.com"
> <adrianwason at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>     I've just been played this never having heard the Chameleons before-sounds
> like something off BTATS-very
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