Heavy Manners

Heavy Manners were a ska band from the 80s, one of the earliest ska bands of the Chicago era. They played with an impressive array of national and international acts (The English Beat, The Clash, Third World, Jimmy Cliff, The Ramones, The Go Gos, Grace Jones, Peter Tosh), recorded tracks in the studio with Peter Tosh and released two records on Disturbing Records.

Heavy Manners played a couple reunion shows at Halsted Market Days on August 11 & 12th, 2007.

Members

• Kate Fagan - Vocals
• Frankie Hill
• Jim Robinson
• Mitch Kohlhaged
• Shel Lustig
• Kevin Smith

Releases

1982 Flyer

• Politics & Pleasure (Disturbing Records, 1982)
  • Engineered by Iain Burgess

• Say It! / Extended 7" (Disturbing Records, 1983)
  • Recorded by Peter Tosh

• Heavier Than Now (NoVo Records, 200?)
  • Tracks from both records remastered
  • Five live tracks
  • More Tosh recorded tracks

External Links

• Heavy Manners page from chitown.com
• Heavy Manner's MySpace reunion page
• CPP thread discussing Heavy Manners
• NoVo Records Heavy Manners page