TV SMITH (UK) & THE BORED TEENAGERS (ESP) play the ADVERTS on tour in Europe.     TV Smith, singer, songwriter, and founder member of legendary 1977 punks “The Adverts” teams up with Spains “Bored Teenagers” to play songs from the two classic Adverts albums “CROSSING THE RED SEA” and “CAST OF THOUSANDS” live.   All the classics will be there, from the notorious top 20 hit single “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes,” to “One Chord Wonders,” “Bored Teenagers,” “Great British Mistake,” “Bombsite Boy,” “New Church”…in fact, “Crossing The Red Sea” will be played almost in its entirety, as well as B-sides such as “We Who Wait” and a selection of songs from the lesser-known but now highly-regarded second Adverts album “Cast Of Thousands.”     This is not a copy. This is the authentic punk sound of 1977, still just as relevant today as it was then, played by the man who first brought these songs to the public, with a new, hungry, hand-picked band from Spain. An unmissable opportunity to experience the spirit of ’77, alive and kicking in 2013.

Rockin' all over the World, since 2008

Adverse96 is not just a fancy bandname, it's about the adversity we all have to face on a daily basis. The contradiction between what we used to be as adolescents (in 1996) and what we have to pretend to be nowadays. We're all grown men, around or over the 30's, most of us have kids, we have jobs, and in order to provide our families the security they need, we had to compromise with society and the fucked up way this whole system is rolling. We all had bands before and some of us are still playing in other bands, but to make it short, Laurent/Philip/Sambo used to play in Hangin Out (Eye Spy Records/Craze Records/Kickass Records), which was pretty popular amongst the Benelux punkrock scene during the 2000’s, Laurent and Antoine also joined Nervous Chillin (I Scream Records) by the last half of the 2000’s while Antoine used to play in hardcore bands such as Coverhate, still plays in Bloodshot and also had a blast playing with Deviate (I Scream Records) a couple years ago when they reunited.
  In fine, we’re all just back for the fun, the live vibe and the happy rehearsals we have every single week, as an exhaust of all the things we have to face during the week, kind of a therapy, not taking it too seriously as humans, but as musicians, music still straight comes from our hearts and that’s where our faith is, it's as simple as that..