![]() They experimented with different rhythm sections, rehearsing with bassists Tony James and Glen Matlock, and drummers Terry Chimes and Steve Nicol. This finally allowed Bators and James to form their own band, having already aroused the interest of Miles Copeland, co-founder of I.R.S. So they'd be rehearsing for this thing and getting it together, while me and Stiv in private would be working on stuff which was to become Lords stuff." With a change of name to the Wanderers, the short-lived band released only one album before disbanding in 1981. James: "That was really the ticket to get Stiv over to London, so we could work. Bators had met the band in Los Angeles a few months before, and they had gotten on well together. The opportunity would come in 1980, when Bators was invited to London to join British punk band Sham 69, who had recently parted ways with their singer Jimmy Pursey. They had remained good friends and the two had often discussed working together on a project after their respective bands had disbanded. Stiv Bators and Brian James first met each other in 1977 when the Dead Boys opened for the Damned on a few CBGB dates in New York and an English tour. The band was re-established between 2001–2003, and again briefly in 2007, with original members James and Tregunna. Charting singles included "New Church" (#34 UK Indie), "Open Your Eyes" (#7 UK Indie #27 US Mainstream Rock), "Dance with Me" (#85 UK Singles Chart) and a cover of Madonna's " Like a Virgin" (#22 UK Indie). The band experienced moderate chart success, with their eponymous debut album peaking at #3 on the UK Indie Chart, 1984's The Method to Our Madness hitting #158 in the US, and the 1985 Killer Lords compilation reaching #22 on the UK Indie Chart. Their stage antics became notorious early in their career, with Bators stunts on one occasion reportedly resulting in his clinical death for several minutes. The band presented a stylized tribal identity around their appearance and their music that fans embraced: the writer Dave Thompson asserts this represented "the first time since the Sex Pistols' Bromley Contingent fanbase a band had succeeded in grafting its own identity onto its audience without first paying obeisance to the gods of highstreet fashion. ![]() More melodic and slickly produced than most punk, their music both reached a broader audience than that of many bands in the genre and alienated hardcore punk fans. During this time, they underwent several line-up changes. ![]() Launched in 1981, the band released three studio albums prior to their dissolution in 1989. This line-up comprised vocalist Stiv Bators (ex- the Dead Boys), guitarist Brian James (ex- the Damned), bassist Dave Tregunna (ex- Sham 69) and drummer Nick Turner (ex- the Barracudas). A supergroup, the line-up originally consisted of four musicians from 1970s punk bands. The Lords of the New Church were an English/American rock band.
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