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Bloss - Drums
Born: Chris McDonogh - Bass
Born: 6th March 1962
Jimmy Hughes - Drums

repl Bloss 1990


A Short History Of The Darling Buds
Formed in Cardiff, Wales in 1986, The Darling Buds were part of the brief "Blonde" period of UK indie music, along with their more commercially successful contemporaries The Primitives. Basically the trend was for a band to have a blonde female singer backed by a load of blokes wearing black and trying to look moody.

Blonde was one of those movements made up by the music press, much like the more recent New Wave of New Wave, Romo and of course Britpop...

After releasing their debut single on their own label, the group signed to Native in 1987. They received a lot of airplay on John Peel's Radio 1 show, and were championed in the press by Chris Roberts of the Melody Maker.

At the height of "Blonde" in 1988 the band were signed up by by Epic and had moderate chart success with a top thirty single and album. They even managed a few appearances on Top Of The Pops.

Then it all went wrong...

Bloss left in 1990 and was replaced by Jimmy Hughes who had previously been the drummer in Black. The band then decided to go for a more sophisticated style with their second album and never really regained their previous popularity. The third and final album "Erotica" was released in 1992 but caused hardly a ripple amongst the music press, even though it was released a few weeks before Madonna's album of the same title. The band then toured the States for a year but decided to call it a day after getting throughly fed up with the music business.

Where are they now ?

Andrea has since moved into acting and has toured with a local theatre company. She has also presented a music show called "The Slate" for BBC Wales.

But as for the rest of the band, who knows ?