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The March Violets - Current version of the band logo

A Leeds-based band, started in 1981 by (among others) Si Denbigh,

the long-time Nurse to The Sisters' Doktor Avalanche.

Their first two 7" singles Religious As Hell and Grooving In Green

were released through The Sisters of Mercy's label Merciful Release.

Nowadays, they describe themselves as:

  Original Post Punk Drum Machine Band From Leeds.

  Started at the Beginning, Imploded, Reborn for the 21st Century.

Recent Developments

The March Violets Today are:

Si Denbigh - vocals

Rosie Garland - vocals

Tom Ashton - guitars

Jo Violet - bass

Love Will Kill You - EP Cover

In November 2010, The March Violets decided to undertake the project of their first full album

along Pledge Music. Over 600 fans pledged their support and had The March Violets raise

196% of the money required. In the course of this pledge project, the band provided funds to

the charity organisations of Friends of the Earth, Cloth Cat, Leeds Music Charity, and

Macmillan Cancer Support.

In mid-2011, the limited edition EP Love Will Kill You was issued for sale at the gigs and

offered for free as a pre-release to people who had pledged toward the new album.

Check this link for an audio stream of "Road Of Bones", the first track of the EP.

A promo video of the song "Dandelion King!" from the 5-track EP was also produced including

the participation of pledgers and can be watched here on YT.

Made Glorious - Listening Party Invitation

Made Glorious - Download Cover

In between recording and production in 2012, The March Violets played

a short tour of the UK, some festival gigs at the WGT in Leipzig,

Germany and at the DV8 Fest in York as well as a support act with

the Psychedelic Furs in Leeds.

In April 2013 the new album Made Glorious was finally ready

for release and made available to the pledgers for a live listening party

at The March Violets' Facebook page on April 7, 2013.

Meanwhile all pledgers have received their items and an according

Made Glorious Tour started on October 26th and

ended on November 23rd, 2013.

The lyrics to all songs of the new Made Glorious album are now

available on The March Violets' Website.

Purple News

The March Violets' lovely Made Glorious Tour is over and it worked out fine.

Meanwhile, we've traced an extensive interview conducted by Plunder the Tombs with Si Denbigh ... talking about his resumee of the tour,

the band and the "genre", some future plans and gigs envisaged for 2014 ... enjoy reading it here:

An Interview With The March Violets, Si Denbigh, 15 Decmber 2013!

Touring

The March Violets are doing some April gigs this year on the following dates:

• Saturday, 5th April 2014 – Fulford Arms – York, England, UK

• Thursday, 10th April 2014 – Poppodium Nieuwe NOR – Heeren, The Netherlands

• Saturday, 12th April 2014 – Resurrection – Kaiserslautern, Germany

• Saturday, 26th April 2014 – Convergence – Chicago, USA

The March Violets are also playing at Alt-Fest, Boughton Estate, Kettering, Northamptonshire on August 16th, 2014

To order tickets online directly and for loads of additional information about the gigs

and about the according Facebook events, please check The Violets Live Page...

External Links

For various further information, please see any of the pages listed here below

• The March Violets' Brandnew Home

• The March Violets' old website

• The March Violets on Facebook

• A Lighter Shade Of Violet - The March Violets's blog at wordpress.com - pretty and interesting, though not updated since early 2012

• Tom Ashton's archived March Violets site

• Tom Ashton's website

• Rosie Garland's - now Rosie Lugosi - site

• Louder Than War - Review of the March Violets gig at Manchester Academy June 9th 2012