FOREIGN LEGION (UK)

FOREIGN LEGION FORMED WAY BACK IN 1984 FOR THE ASHES OF SOCIETY.THE BAND STARTED OUT WITH THE NAME DEAD ON ARRIVAL "D.O.A." BUT HAD TO CHANGE IT BECAUSE OF THE CANDIAN PUNKS WITH THE SAME NAME.THE BAND HAD A FEW LINE UP CHANGES AND PALYED LOADS OF SHOWS AROUND THE UK WITH THE LIKES OF UK SUBS,URBAN DOGS,MAJOR ACCIDENT,THE ADDICTS ETC.THE BAND ONLY RECORDED ONE E.P. ON THIER OWN LABEL RENT A RACKET THE E.P WAS CALLED THE TRENCHLINE E.P.WITH LOADS OF SHOWS AND A TON OF DEMO TAPES THE BAND WERE A LIVE GIGING BAND AND NOTHING NEVER HAPPENED IN THE WAY OF ALBUMS WITCH WAS A SHAME THE BAND HAVE A GOOD FEW TRCKS ON COMPS BUT NO ALBUM IN THE 80,S THE 90,S SEEN THE BAND RECORD ONE ALBUM ONLY REALSED ON VINYL AND WAS NEVER REALSED ON CD,STILL A HEAVEY GIGGING BAND NOTHING EVER REALLY KICKED OFF FOR THE BAND AND AFTER SOME TOURS IN EUROPE THE BAND CALLED IT A DAY THE BAND SEEN ALOT OF LINE UP CHANGES BUT MARCUS WAS STILL THE ORIGNAL FRONT MAN.IN THE EARLY 90,S THE SPILT UP FOR GOOD AND NEVER THOUGHT OF GETTING BACK TOGHETHER UNTIL ONE DAY JOLLY WHO WAS THE BASS PALYER FOR THE BAND SAW MARCUS IN THIER HOME TOWN AFTER NOT SEEING HIM FOR A GOOD FEW YEARS HE TOLD MARCUS THAT HE WAS NOW PLAYING GUITAR AND HAD WROTE A GOOD FEW SONGS BUT HAD NO BAND,SO HE ASKED MARCUS IF HE WAS INTRESTED IN GETTING THE LEGION BACK,SO AFTER HEARING THE SONGS THE BAND CALLED UP SOME OLD MEMBERS AND PUT THE BAND BACK TOGHER AGAIN,THE BAND PLAYED THIER FIRST SHOW IN CARDIFF AND WENT STRIAGHT INTO THE STUDIO THEN WE SEEN THE REALESE OF THE EP,S THE YEARS GONE BY,AND PUNK ROCK JUKEBOX AND LOADS OF GIGS WITH THE LIKES OF BEERZONE,UK SUBS,DROPKICK MURPHYS,THE BAND WAS BACK IN THE STUDIO AND THEN SAW THE SPILT ALBUM WITH MAJOR ACCIDENT THE CRY OF THE LEGION,AND THEN THEY WENT ON TOUR IN THE U.S.A. WITH MAJOR ACCIDENT AND GOT TO PLAY IN CBGBS,AFTER LOADS OF SHOWS IN THE UK AND GERMANY THE BAND THEN WAS BACK IN THE STUDIO AND RECORED WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND WITH HELP FROM MICK JONES OF THE CLASH,THEN THE BAND HAD MORE LINE UP CHANGES AND JOLLY LEFT THE BAND FOR A FEW YEARS BUT LATER CAME BACK TO YET ANOTHER LINE UP CHANGE THIS LINE UP STAYED THE SAME SAME FOR A GOOD FEW YEARS AND PLAYED SHOWS WITH THE MISFITS,THE BUZZCOCKS,S.L.F.,UK SUBS,EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS,AGNOSTIC FRONT THEY WENT BACK TO EUROPE AGAIN AND PLAYED IN PRAGUE AND BERLIN BUT THEN SEEN THE NEW ALBUM DEATH VALLEY THIS WAS THE LAST RECORDING OF THIS LINE UP AND PLAYED THIER LAST SHOWS OF 2007 IN DUBLIN AND THE LAST EVER ONE IN NEWPORT WITH BAD MANNERS.THEN IN 2008 WITH ONLY MARCUS AND JOLLY LEFT THE BAND WENT BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD"WE TOOK A GOOD LOOK AT WHAT WAS GOING ON AND WE HAD TO MOVE ON SO WE BROUGHT IN NEW BLOOD TO THE BAND WE WERE LUCKY TO FIND TO POEPLE WHO WERE INTO THIS MUSIC AND WAY OF LIFE AS WE ARE SO WE GOT IN OUR OLD FRIEND PAUL BLACK WHO HAD PLAY WITH US ON A FEW SHOWS BEFORE WE NEW HE WAS THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB HES THE BEST DRUMMER WEVE EVER HAD A FOREIGN LEGION,AND THEN BROUGHT IN 20 YEAR OLD JARRAD ON BASS WHO WAS BORN TO BE A PUNK ROCKER"IT DIDNT LOOK TO GOOD FOR THE BAND AT THE END OF 2007 BUT NOW IN 2008 THE BAND ARE BACK BETTER AND STRONGER THAN EVER,""CHARLIE HARPER SAID IN THE LAST GIG WE DONE WITH THE SUBS IN MAY 2008 FOREIGN LEGION GET BETTER EVERY TIME I SEE THEM THEY PLAYED A GREAT SET AND THAT BASS PLAYER IS TO YOUNG FOR THEM HE SHOULD JOIN THE SUBS""SO THE BAND ARE GOING TO GO INTO THE STUDIO AND DO THE BEST ALBUM OF THIER LIFES AND ARE OF TO EUROPE AGAIN SO BE SURE TO CHECK THE BAND OUT LEGION RISING 2008.