Vardis' second long-player, 1981's This World's Insane, had failed to ignite the hard rock world on fire, and so dreary was becoming the band's cause that not even a performance at that year's Reading Festival seemed capable of turning their fortunes around. So come the new year, Steve Zodiac's trio of not-so-merry men returned to the studio to work on album number three (to become 1982's Quo Vardis), trying a number of novel songwriting approaches and undertaking a few creative risks in ...   [ read more ]

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Taking the unorthodox route of releasing a live album as their debut had reaped great dividends for boogie metal trio Vardis, who quickly found themselves singled out as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal's official pub band. Optimistically, this meant they were being recognized as the best purveyors of '70s-inspired hard boogie, but the harsher reality saw Vardis becoming hopelessly stereotyped as the opening act of choice for other New Wave of British Heavy Metal heavyweights such as {...   [ read more ]

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Among the many bands reluctant to be associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal tag line, few were as justified in their protests as Yorkshire's lovable boogie rock merchants, Vardis (formerly Quo Vardis). Indeed, any links between the trio's turbo-charged rock & roll and outright heavy metal were tenuous at best, but with independent record label Logo looking to sign the band responsible for the fierce version of "If I Were King" featured in their New Electric Warriors ...   [ read more ]

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