The Adventure Babies

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The Adventure Babies
Origin Manchester
Genres Britpop
Years active1990–2018
Labels Factory Records
MembersMatt Tedstone
Dave Atherton
Jez Bramwell

The Adventure Babies were a Stafford-based Britpop band, founded by Matt Tedstone, Dave Atherton and Jez Bramwell in 1990. The band had three releases on the Factory Records label:

The Adventure Babies were the last band signed by Factory Records before it went bankrupt. At the time of Factory's bankruptcy in 1992, test pressings had been made of a second single from the Laugh album, the title track. [2]

The band continued playing with new guitarist Vulch (Bryan Wilkin) for a year, seeking a new recording contract.

A second album, Once Upon A Time The End, was issued in 2005, on CD only. In 2018 this was followed by a digital-only album release, Extracts of the Next.

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References

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  2. "Cerysmatic Factory > the Adventure Babies > FAC 357 Laugh". CerysmaticFactory (archived). Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2019.