Tonight (band)

Tonight were a five piece new wave band, from Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Although only active from June 1977 to January 1979, they played a small but significant part, in the ever-changing music scene in the late 1970s.fact|date=April 2008 They had a hit single, "Drummer Man", in February 1978.

Career

Tonight along with The Rich Kids, were the first acts to be described as power pop, a new UK music genre term in 1978, initially mentioned by Charles Catchpole, in the "Evening Standard", 'Rock Notes' section, on 17 January 1978. [ [http://www.tonighttheband.com/Power_Pop_1st_mention.html Tonighttheband.com - first UK power pop mention (press)] ] The term was borrowed from Pete Townshend's description of The Who's music in 1967, and in 1978 put forward as a musical genre, by the press/promotion office at WEA in London, to describe their new upcoming acts at that time.fact|date=September 2008 As punk morphed into new wave (December 1977 - January 1978) Tonight scored the first hit for the power pop movement in February 1978, with "Drummer Man" reaching No.14 in the UK Singles Chart.cite book
first= David
last= Roberts
year= 2006
title= British Hit Singles & Albums
edition= 19th
publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
location= London
pages= p. 562
id= ISBN 1-904994-10-5] Their next single "Money (That's Your Problem)" charted well outside of the Top 40; but two more singles were released plus an album was recorded.

Lack of further successs leaves them labelled as a one-hit wonder.

Personnel

*Chris Turner - Lead vocals and songwriter
*Phil Chambon - Rhythm guitar, backing vocals and songwriter
*Dave Cook - Lead guitar
*Russ Strothard - Bassist and backing vocals
*Gary Thompson - drums
*Andy Arthurs - Record producer and songwriter

References

External links

* [http://www.tonighttheband.com Tonight official website]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=241420388 Tonight on myspace.com]