The Huntington Cads | tl

The A-Cads were a great South African rock and roll band formed in Johannesburg in 1965. They had a Springbok #1 hit in January 1966 with a cover of the Johnny Kidd and the Pirates' 'Hungry For Love'. The A-Cads were the brainchild of Peter Rimmer, manager of the RandAcademy of Music in 1965. The name A-Cads was a compromise combinationof the names "The Academy" (management's preference) and "The Cads"(preferred by the band). Peter came from Liverpool and backed stars such as Marty Wilde and the Tempests before coming to South Africa in 1963. When Peter decided to form the...

THE HUNTINGTON CADS Taking their name from ritzy Huntington Drive (NOT Beach) The Cads' sound brings to mind smoking jackets, liquor heavy mai tais and canned raviolis...not a surfboard in sight ! Think pre-Beatles British instrumental suave filtered thru sunny Southern California rickshaw. Fender Jazzmasters, 6-String Bass, acoustic(!) rhythm guitar, matching red sport jackets and layers o' reverb. The Huntington Cads and The Bomboras. Most have probably heard of The Bomboras due to their signing to the high-profile Zombie A Go-Go Records, CEO none other than Rob Zombie, and funded by Geffen/DGC/Dreamworks. Legend (or, at least, the Cads' bio) has...

The Cads are an indie band from Ipswich. The debut EP 'Spark up in style' is released on 24th April 2011 - distributed by Cargo/itunes Cd & 7" release 'Club of Rome' NrOne Records - Release date July 18th 2011 .

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Eddy aka Edward Huntington was born on the 29th October 1965 in Peterlee/North East of England. His music career started at school, where he was learning violin and oboe, however it was not classical music that draw Eddy's atention. He loved artists like Eurythmics, Phil Collins and most of all - Cliff Richard. At 18 he left home and started working in London's Pineapple Dance Studios as a model. Thanks to this, he was proposed by Baby's Record to sing "U.S.S.R", which turned out to be one of the most succesfull Italo Disco hit in 1986. Two years later he...