Roland Reward presents Fantastic Younger Cannibals at 40 anniversary reveals.
Forty years since double Brit-Award winners, The Fantastic Younger Cannibals (FYC), stormed into the UK charts with their debut single and album in 1985, lead singer, Roland Reward presents Fantastic Younger Cannibals at 40, on the London Palladium on 2 October and Birmingham Symphony Corridor, on 12 November.
As they have fun 40 years, the band’s greatest chart hit, She Drives Me Loopy, has turn out to be one of many hottest tracks of 2025 thus far, because of a Chanel purse advert marketing campaign that includes Dua Lipa and Okay-pop star Jennie of BLACKPINK. The monitor is effervescent excessive on Spotify since its re-release this March and going viral on socials with over 320,000,000 views throughout TikTok, Instagram and Fb.
Forty Years Of FYC
Roland Reward stated: “Within the Fantastic Younger Cannibals, we at all times used to say we needed individuals to be taking part in our data 25 years after they have been launched, the best way we listened to Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye – it appears like we did that, and far more. Johnny, Good Factor, She Drives Me Loopy, I’m Not The Man I Used To Be, Suspicious Minds, I nonetheless love taking part in these songs and folks nonetheless love listening to them. So come and be a part of us in London and Birmingham, it may change your life, on the very least will probably be a terrific night time out.”
Fashioned in Birmingham in 1984 by former The Beat bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox, with singer Roland Reward (previously of the Akrylykz), their self-titled 1985 debut album contained the hits Johnny Come Residence and a canopy of Suspicious Minds – two songs that have been Prime 40 hits within the UK, Canada, Australia and Europe.
Their 1989 album, The Uncooked & The Cooked topped the UK, US, Australian and Canadian album charts, and contained their two Billboard Sizzling 100 No.1s She Drives Me Loopy and Good Factor. In 1990, the band received two Brit Awards for Finest British Group and Finest British Album.
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