History:

"THE DAZE" were early-1980s purveyors of political post-punk and some fine Clash rip-offs. You can see pictures of us on stage here. Sorry, photo-students. The quality of these is down to the standard of pretty well everything else we did.

We did make one single, called "DEEP SOUTH", a scathing political statement, which could have been a bit of a classic if it hadn't actually been crap.

The Daze did lots of gigs, supported a few moderately well-known bands of the time (including The Alarm, the Danse Society, Happy Mondays and, amazingly enough, the great Geno Washington) but finally went back to their respective garages and bedrooms in the mid-1980s.

We have a small pile of unsold DEEP SOUTH singles left in various corners, but they are not available to ANYONE at all.

Discography (hah!)

1. Deep South/Made In America (Mynah Records, 1983)

2. We have just pressed a small number of CDs, with a collection of 18 tracks from live and studio recordings, dating from 1981 to 1985. The title of the CD is "Laugh? I almost bought the single". You can click here to see the CD sleeve picture (JPG, 51k).

Band Members:

We name the guilty parties here ...

Lineup 1:  Jeremy Santhouse - b/v, Jeff Smith - g/v, John Catley - d

Lineup 2: Jeremy Santhouse - b/v, Jeff Smith - g/v, David French - d

Lineup 3:  Jeremy Santhouse - g/v, Jeff Smith - g/v, David French - d, Steve Hall - b

Lineup 4:  Jeremy Santhouse - g/v, Steve Hall - b/v, Austin Cooper - g, Stewart MacInnes - d

Lineup 5:  Jeremy Santhouse - g/v, Steve Hall - b/v, David French - d, Alan Hamer - v/g

Lineup 6:  Jeremy Santhouse - g/v, Steve Hall - b/v, Andy Verity - d, Alan Hamer - v/g

The Daze appeared in various reincarnations under their own name, as The Waiting Game and, early on, also gigged as Apocalypse Jive (name taken from some on-stage stream of consciousness by the great Julian Cope) and Fly to Acapulco (name taken from an advert on a beermat).

And finally, five uninteresting facts about The Daze:

The Daze were variously...

• ...banned from the radio. We liked to think it was because we were just too political for them to handle. Looking back, it was probably because we had no redeeming musical ability whatsoever.
• ...managed by Colin Sinclair, one-time manager of several semi-famous Manchester bands including the Railway Children and I think, A Certain Ratio. Colin is now the owner of the well-known Boardwalk club in the centre of Manchester. He'd probably be very happy never to hear of The Daze again.
• ...keen on doing gigs, even down to using a drum machine when drummer Dave French didn't make it to one appearance at Manchester University. We sounded awful without you, Dave. By which I mean that we sounded even more awful than usual.
• ...reviewed favourably in local press and fanzines. However, this was largely by several of our mates, who we first had to get hideously and expensively drunk.
• ...heavily influenced by the amazing music of the Clash, the Jam, the Buzzcocks, Joy Division, New Order, the Fall, A Certain Ratio, the Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Stranglers, Sisters of Mercy, the Chameleons, Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Wah Heat, and lots of other people.

Contact The Daze via: jeremys@cryogen.com