Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Cuddly Toys 'Bring on the Ravers', filmed as a Japanese promo on 16/03/1980, made available on the bonus DVD with the 'Guillotine Theatre' album. It wasn't part of that album, but from the final demo from this band line-up. A different, shorter version was later recorded with new band-members and issued on the 'Someone's Crying' 7" b-side.
Listen - on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/CuddlyToysSpotify
iTunes & Apple: http://smarturl.it/CuddlyToysiTuneApple
Amazon: https://smarturl.it/CuddlyToysAmazon
Get the 'Trials & Crosses' CD here: ebay.co.uk/itm/220999436405
* New CD from Cuddly ToyZ feat. Paddy Phield - full info here: http://smarturl.it/CToyZCD *
Biography:- Formed in London in the winter of 1976/77, the band spent two years as shock-punk band Raped, reveling in pissing people off with publicity seeking scams, gaining from the press nothing but opprobrium. They’d hung around the Kings Road emergent punk scene – guitarist Faebhean Kwest had auditioned for the Sex Pistols before he found the Iggy-loving Sean Purcell, ‘normal’ bassist Tony Baggett and cross-dressing blonde Japanese drummer Paddy Phield.
Sean found a singing voice, and their music and image evolved out of punk to fully embrace their passion for glam heroes Bowie, Bolan and NY Dolls. So at the end of 1978 they changed their provocative name to the huggy-nice Cuddly Toys and added a keyboard player, Billy Surgeoner. Despite still alienating many with their unabashed sexual ambivalence they attracted a dedicated hard-core following through regular gigging all around the UK and big write-ups in the underground fanzines such as Ripped & Torn and In The City.
Finding a bootleg tape of David Bowie & Marc Bolan rehearsing an unreleased co-written song ‘Madman’, they covered it and it became a highlight: youtu.be/w52Yc8LhopA Their own songs, recorded over three sessions 78-79, developed with Sean’s lyrical imagery conveying his fantasy glam-world.
The ‘Madman’ single and ‘Guillotine Theatre’ album were released in autumn 1979 – but only in Japan; it was not until early 1981 that a revamped and remixed version was released in the UK. The expensive import version received a few positive press reviews, but by the time of the UK release any impetus was lost, the band had moved on, and the original line-up began to dismantle.
Sean went on to release a second Cuddly Toys album ‘Trials & Crosses’ with a new line-up in 1982 in the New Romantic era. He was managed in turn by the masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki and later, with a third Toys line-up, by Angie Bowie. Eventually he quit and moved to Ireland. A heavy smoker, in 1996 he developed a brain tumour and died at age 37.
Paddy Phield returned to Japan and is very active with his new band Cuddly ToyZ : facebook.com/CuddlyToyZ
Faebhean Kwest turned his guitar style to embrace flamenco gypsy. Tony Baggett got involved with the music business side.
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CUDDLY TOYS - Bring On The Ravers lyrics
(T.Baggett / S.Purcell)
Oh! Return
Return of all the lonely stars
Learn that you can go to far
And never reach a star
No! No!
Something that you say would not agree
Hope someone believes in me
Oh! Bring on the ravers
Those crazy ravers
No! No! No!
(Chorus) I got feeling Oh!
I got feeling Oh!
Verse 1
Verse 2
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
Reggae skanking outro (exclusive to this version).
Get 'Trials & Crosses' CD: ebay.co.uk/itm/220999436405
Listen on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/CuddlyToysSpotify
Listen on iTunes & Apple: http://smarturl.it/CuddlyToysiTuneApple
#CuddlyToysBand #SeanPurcell #JungleRecords @junglerecords
Cuddly Toys 'Bring on the Ravers', filmed as a Japanese promo on 16/03/1980, made available on the bonus DVD with the 'Guillotine Theatre' album. It wasn't part of that album, but from the final demo from this band line-up. A different, shorter version was later recorded with new band-members and issued on the 'Someone's Crying' 7" b-side.
Listen - on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/CuddlyToysSpotify
iTunes & Apple: http://smarturl.it/CuddlyToysiTuneApple
Amazon: https://smarturl.it/CuddlyToysAmazon
Get the 'Trials & Crosses' CD here: ebay.co.uk/itm/220999436405
* New CD from Cuddly ToyZ feat. Paddy Phield - full info here: http://smarturl.it/CToyZCD *
Biography:- Formed in London in the winter of 1976/77, the band spent two years as shock-punk band Raped, reveling in pissing people off with publicity seeking scams, gaining from the press nothing but opprobrium. They’d hung around the Kings Road emergent punk scene – guitarist Faebhean Kwest had auditioned for the Sex Pistols before he found the Iggy-loving Sean Purcell, ‘normal’ bassist Tony Baggett and cross-dressing blonde Japanese drummer Paddy Phield.
Sean found a singing voice, and their music and image evolved out of punk to fully embrace their passion for glam heroes Bowie, Bolan and NY Dolls. So at the end of 1978 they changed their provocative name to the huggy-nice Cuddly Toys and added a keyboard player, Billy Surgeoner. Despite still alienating many with their unabashed sexual ambivalence they attracted a dedicated hard-core following through regular gigging all around the UK and big write-ups in the underground fanzines such as Ripped & Torn and In The City.
Finding a bootleg tape of David Bowie & Marc Bolan rehearsing an unreleased co-written song ‘Madman’, they covered it and it became a highlight: youtu.be/w52Yc8LhopA Their own songs, recorded over three sessions 78-79, developed with Sean’s lyrical imagery conveying his fantasy glam-world.
The ‘Madman’ single and ‘Guillotine Theatre’ album were released in autumn 1979 – but only in Japan; it was not until early 1981 that a revamped and remixed version was released in the UK. The expensive import version received a few positive press reviews, but by the time of the UK release any impetus was lost, the band had moved on, and the original line-up began to dismantle.
Sean went on to release a second Cuddly Toys album ‘Trials & Crosses’ with a new line-up in 1982 in the New Romantic era. He was managed in turn by the masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki and later, with a third Toys line-up, by Angie Bowie. Eventually he quit and moved to Ireland. A heavy smoker, in 1996 he developed a brain tumour and died at age 37.
Paddy Phield returned to Japan and is very active with his new band Cuddly ToyZ : facebook.com/CuddlyToyZ
Faebhean Kwest turned his guitar style to embrace flamenco gypsy. Tony Baggett got involved with the music business side.
Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/ohm7aw
CUDDLY TOYS - Bring On The Ravers lyrics
(T.Baggett / S.Purcell)
Oh! Return
Return of all the lonely stars
Learn that you can go to far
And never reach a star
No! No!
Something that you say would not agree
Hope someone believes in me
Oh! Bring on the ravers
Those crazy ravers
No! No! No!
(Chorus) I got feeling Oh!
I got feeling Oh!
Verse 1
Verse 2
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
Reggae skanking outro (exclusive to this version).
Get 'Trials & Crosses' CD: ebay.co.uk/itm/220999436405
Listen on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/CuddlyToysSpotify
Listen on iTunes & Apple: http://smarturl.it/CuddlyToysiTuneApple
#CuddlyToysBand #SeanPurcell #JungleRecords @junglerecords
