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'''The Tansads''' were an English band from [[Wigan]], [[Greater Manchester]], who were active during the 1990s.<ref name="wigan">{{cite news |title=Tansads winners |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/877965821/?terms=tansads&match=1 |access-date=10 March 2024 |agency=Burntwood Mercury |date=7 December 1995}}</ref> Playing a mix of [[folk music|folk]], [[punk rock|punk]] and [[indie music]] they developed a strong following on the [[music festival|festival]] circuit and on the crusty/[[new age travellers|traveller]] scene, but never managed to achieve a commercial breakthrough. Their ultimately unsuccessful career later became the subject of a book by former member Ed Jones.
==History==
The Tansads formed in 1989<ref name="stars">{{cite news |title=New stars on Valley ascendant |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/878618183/ |access-date=10 March 2024 |agency=Rossendale Free Press |date=4 November 1994}}</ref> and debuted live on March 26, 1990 at Players.<ref name="debutgig">{{cite news |title=It's all happening at Players |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/821552094/?terms=tansads%20kettle%20&match=1 |access-date=10 March 2024 |agency=Herald and Post |date=23 March 1990}}</ref> The core members of the group throughout their career were vocalist Janet Anderton and the three Kettle brothers: John (guitarist and principal songwriter), Bob (mandolin, guitar and harmonica) and Andrew, sometimes credited simply as "Kek" (vocalist).<ref name="bandmembers">{{cite news |last1=Browne |first1=David |title=Tansads rock into town |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/981777677/?terms=tansads%20kettle%20&match=1 |access-date=10 March 2024 |agency=The Citizen |date=6 October 1994}}</ref> John Kettle had previously been the guitarist for the Volunteers.<ref name="debutgig" /> Anderton had previously been in a band called The Bonny Saloons with John and Bob. The name "Tansad" came from a star and brand of child's pushchair.<ref name="roadagain">{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Steve |title=Celtic rockers hit the road again |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/909577320/?terms=tansads%20kettle%20&match=1 |access-date=10 March 2024 |agency=Coventry Evening Telegraph |date=14 October 1994}}</ref><ref name="runcorn">{{cite news |title=Popular demand |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/804559969/?terms=tansads%20kettle%20&match=1 |access-date=10 March 2024 |agency=Runcorn Weekly News |date=10 May 1990}}</ref><ref>Interview with the band in ''[[FRoots|Folk Roots]]'' issue 120, June 1993</ref> The band's style blended elements of folk, punk and indie with lyrics generally focusing on the vagaries of Northern working-class life. Anderton and Andrew Kettle shared lead vocals, with some tracks featuring one or other alone and others featuring the interplay of Anderton's clear voice with Kettle's raspy delivery.<ref name="bandmembers" /><ref name="vocals">{{cite news |last1=Sweeting |first1=Adam |title=The Tansads Up the Shirkers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/260305957/?terms=tansads%20kettle%20&match=1 |access-date=10 March 2024 |agency=The Guardian |date=12 February 1993}}</ref>
The band achieved significant local success in their home town of Wigan, and in the early 1990s were supported by another local band, [[The Verve]] (then simply Verve). At the time the two acts were seen as the two big names on the local Wigan scene.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040813075549/http://www.musicsaves.org/verve/interviews/35.shtml] {{dead link|date=September 2020}}</ref> Other bands who supported the Tansads included [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]], [[Cast (band)|Cast]] and [[Kula Shaker]]. In 1991 they released their debut album ''Shandyland'' on an independent label, its title track featuring a lyric (reproduced on the album's front cover) which summed up their vision of Northern life and people: "Chips and egg would make them high/But God has poked them in the eye".
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