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Article: 08 Culture Diary: Bad Manners battle back from bus blast; Liverpool 08 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2008
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Byline: BY VICKY ANDERSON Daily Post Staff
SKAS seminal merry pranksters, the inimitable Bad Manners, roll into town this week as part of their annual UK Christmas tour. The band have kept going despite an unforeseen - and hugely dramatic - setback, when their tour bus, with everything on board, exploded last week.
The band narrowly avoided injury and worse.
"We were driving along, we'd just bought a new bus, it was really nice and we all loved it, everything was working fine, no problems," recalls iconic frontman Buster Bloodvessel. "We heard this 'click click' from the engine and next minute there was the smell of burning.
"Some of ...