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This Week's Feature

London, England, United Kingdom
Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction
play a sleazy style of commercial hard rock featuring big riffs and choruses,
as was the trend in the band’s heyday of the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Years Active - 1985 to present
Band Members
Zodiac Mindwarp (aka Zed) - vocals
Cobalt Stargazer - guitars
The Beast - bass
Robbie Vomm - drums
More Members
Jack Shitt
Bruno 'The Cat' Agua
Past members
Jimmy Cauty
The KLF
Kid Chaos
Boom Boom Kaboomski
Jake Le Mesurier
Slam Thunderhide
Evil Bastard
Trash D Garbage
Flash Bastard
Suzi X
Tex Diablo
Robbie Vom
Kev Reverb
The Apocalypse

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Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction the brainchild of Mark Manning, a former graphic artist and art editor of the now defunct Flexipop! magazine( a British pop music magazine that ran from 1980 to 1983,
which featured a flexidisc in each issue). The magazine folded back in 1983 but the hedonistic lifestyle of the frequenting rock and pop stars to the magazine' offices fueled his desire to experience the debauchery of life
as a decadent rock star. He joined another music publication called Metal Fury as a graphic designer but would assume the alter ego Zodiac Mindwarp at night.

Zodiac soon left Metal Fury and formed the Love Reaction  in 1985 with Jimmy Cauty, who later formed The Orb, The JAMS (Justified Ancients of Mu Mu), and The KLF on guitar, Kid Chaos (real name Stephen Harris)
on bass and Boom Boom Kaboomski on drums.

The band was signed to the Food label of Phonogram Records who soon issued their first recording, "Wild Child" with just Zodiac (playing guitar and vocals), Kid Chaos on bass and Jake Le Mesurier on drums.
A demo version of "High Priest of Love" was included on the Melody Maker "Vinyl Conflict 2" free EP in September 1986. By the end of the year the lineup had changed again to accommodate the still present figure
of Cobalt Stargazer (real name Geoff Bird) and new drummer Slam Thunderhide (real name Stephen Landrum).  That lineup would contribute the studio track, "Drug Shoes," to the FOOD "Imminent 2"
various artists compilation.

At various times, the band has also featured Evil Bastard
(real name Robert Munro who co-penned and sang on two notable B-sides: "Hangover from Hell" and "Lager Woman from Hell"),
Heavy Metal Bear (real name Alex Bradly),
Trash D Garbage (real name Paul Bailey),
Flash Bastard (real name Jan Cyrka),
Suzi X (real name Richard Levy),
Tex Diablo (real name Christopher Renshaw),
and Robbie Vom (real name Rob Morris).

Occasionally referred to as "biker rock", the band's style of hard rock
is reflected in their outlandish attire, which tends to parody the
post-apocalyptic Mad Max biker look.

Mötley Crüe declared them to be their favourite
band and immediately restyled themselves for the
"Girls, Girls, Girls" record.

The act produced a UK Singles Chart Top 20 hit with the
breakthrough record "Prime Mover", a song that was
inspired musically by Hawkwind's 1977 track
"Quark, Strangeness and Charm", itself heavily inspired
by the German group NEU!

You can now hear
Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction
on The Manamal Radio
"All The Great Songs You Don't Hear On The Radio"

They toured the US supporting Alice Cooper and Guns N' Roses on dozens of dates in 1988. After a few gigs, they were moved up to the middle of the bill between Cooper and Guns N' Roses.
Stargazer, Thunderhide and Bastard were also featured in the film
"The Decline of Western Civilization Part II" performing with Slash and Axl Rose (from Guns N' Roses) and Alice Cooper, in an encore from this tour
featuring Cooper's hit "Under My Wheels". The Love Reaction's 1987 album "Tattooed Beat Messiah" failed to sell well enough in the States, resulting in them being dropped by their record label with outstanding debts, according to Zodiac himself. The Tattooed Beat Messiah LP spawned 5 videos that received regular rotation on MTV's "Headbangers Ball" and host Ricki Rachtman claimed the band as one of his all time favorites,
and most underrated bands of the era.

They adopted a more common "street look" recently, circa their comeback, around 1999. In recent years, Manning has established himself as an author, penning Bad Wisdom (1996, with Bill Drummond),
Crucify Me Again (2000), Get Your Cock Out (2000), Fucked by Rock (2001), Collateral Damage, The Wild Highway (2005, again with Drummond). Manning is also a regular contributor to The Idler magazine.

Zodiac Mindwarp progressed rapidly from their first gig at Dingwalls in November 1985, to playing in front of a packed Reading festival in 1986 but was followed by the departure of Kid Chaos who joined the massive rock outfit The Cult.

Zodiac regrouped by assigning Trash D Garbage on Bass and Flash Bastard (Jan Cyrka) on rhythm guitar section.

The expanded five member outfit all went on to record Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction's debut album in 1988 entitled "Tattooed Beat Messiah." Other band members playing bass include Suzi X, Tex Diablo and Kev Reverb. Previous drummers were Robbie Vomm and The Apocalypse.

The camp lyrics are intended as self-parody, and can be seen as either humorous, or offensive by those who take them at face value, for their often lascivious and misogynist tone.

Song titles like "Back Seat Education", "Feed My Frankenstein", "High Heeled Heaven", and "Trash Madonna" illustrate Mindwarp's tongue-in-cheek approach. Lyrical content also exhibits a send up of cult worship,
often of  Zodiac Mindwarp's  self-proclaimed raging libido, with Mindwarp claiming the titles sex fuhrer, love dictator, and high priest of love.

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Discography

Singles and EPs
May 1986 "Wild Child" EP
Aug 1986 "High Priest of Love"
May 1987 "Prime Mover"
Nov 1987 "Back Seat Education"
Apr 1988 "Planet Girl"
1993 "My Life Story" EP

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Albums
Tattooed Beat Messiah (1988) – UK No. 20 (re-released in 1997 as The Best of Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction)
Hoodlum Thunder (1991)
Live at Reading (1993)
One More Knife (1994)
I Am Rock (2002) – (re-released in 2005 with 4 demo bonus tracks)
Weapons of Mass Destruction (live album) (2004)
Rock Savage (2005)
Pandora's Grisly Handbag (1986 live album and DVD) (2006)
We Are Volsung (2010)

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These electric performances are available on iTunes at a new low price for a limited time!
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Featuring the classic Foreigner line-up of Jones, Gramm, McDonald, Greenwood, Gagliardi and Elliott, this show captures the essence of a group who would go on to become one of the best-selling bands of all time.
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On April 27 1978, after their self-titled debut album had spent a year in the US Top 20, rock’s conquering heroes played a sold-out show at London’s legendary music venue, the Rainbow Theatre.
Opening with 'Long, Long Way From Home', the band’s legion of fans were treated to a magnificent display of musicianship and performance, including local hit singles, 'Feels Like The First Time' and 'Cold As Ice', as well as an exclusive preview of two tracks from the upcoming ‘Double Vision’ album.
Forty years on, this definitive performance by the original band has been restored from the original film reels, remixed and remastered for this release.

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Introducing Heavy Metal veteran HERMANN FRANK to the crowd is just meaningless like carry coals to Newcastle. The guitarist has been an integral part of the German metal scene since the early 80s. From ACCEPT to VICTORY to his solo project started in 2009 and his work as a producer.

“Fight The Fear ", released by AFM Records on February 8th, 2019, and is the fourth studio of band history.

"Fight The Fear” thrills with Herman's guitar attacks, killer riffs and outstanding, powerful vocals with good hook lines and catchy choruses. A Teutonic Metal fireworks as it could not be better!

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FLOTSAM AND JETSAM states: "We're excited to hit North America for a headlining tour next spring in support of our upcoming album release, 'The End Of Chaos'. We'll be following up our March 2019 European tour with OVERKILL and DESTRUCTION, with this 34-show run throughout May/June 2019. Look for us to be playing music from the new album, as well as digging into our catalog to play FLOTSAM songs that haven't been in the set for a while, if ever, in our headline set. We're looking forward to bringing FLOTSAM AND JETSAM's metal to the masses, once again!"

 “The End of Chaos ", to be released by AFM Records on January 18th, 2019, is the fourteenth album in their more than 30-year of band history.

The album will be available as Digipak, clear orange, gatefold vinyl (ltd. to 450 units), black gatefold vinyl (ltd. To 450 units), ltd. picture vinyl (ltd. to 500 units), gold black splatter gatefold vinyl and limited boxset’s with T-shirts which is available

After a successful North American tour earlier this year in support of Swedish power metal giants HAMMERFALL, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM will be returning to the road for a trek across North America, continuing its "Tour Of Chaos 2019".

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