The Adicts are a British punk rock band from Ipswich, Suffolk, England. A popular English punk rock band of the 1980s, they were often in the punk charts during that decade.
The Adicts originated as The Afterbirth in late 1975 but never had any music or played any shows. They later became The Pinz. They soon changed their name to the Adicts and became known for their distinctive Clockwork Orange "droog" image. Their fourth album, 1986's Fifth Overture, was initially released only in Germany, and did not see release in their home country until the following year.
The band then entered a period of inactivity, only releasing the live albums Live and Loud!!, recorded in 1981 and released in 1987, and Rockers into Orbit, recorded in 1986 and released in 1990. The band's next studio album finally appeared in 1992, when the US label Cleopatra Records released Twenty-Seven, which was not released in the UK until a year later on Anagram Records. Cleopatra reissued the band's first three albums in 1993, giving those discs their first release in the US.
Another period of inactivity ensued, this time lasting until 2002. That year, the band's first album in a decade, Rise and Shine was released on Captain Oi! Records, who also released expanded reissues of all of the band's previous albums with the exception of Songs of Praise. Two years later, the Rollercoaster album was released on the US label SOS Records; it has never been officially released in the UK. Over the next couple of years, SOS released their own expanded reissues of Sound of Music, Smart Alex, Twenty-Seven and Rise and Shine. The Adicts' next album was a newly recorded version of their debut Songs of Praise, which was released in 2008 on the European label People Like You Records. A year later, the band released Life Goes On on the same label. In 2012, All the Young Droogs was released on DC-Jam Records.
In 2017, the Adicts signed to Nuclear Blast, and announced a late 2017 release for the album And It Was So!.
Discography
Studio albums
{| class="wikitable"
!align="center" rowspan="2"|Title
!align="center" rowspan="2"|Release date
!align="center" rowspan="2"|Record label
!align="center" colspan="2"|Peak positions
|-
!width="20"|<small>UK</small>
!width="20"|<small>UK <br>Indie</small>
|-
|Songs of Praise
|1981
|Dwed Records
|align="center"|
|align="center"|15
|-
|Sound of Music
|1982
|Razor Records
|align="center"|99
|align="center"|2