Towers of London (band)

The Tourettes played in a glam punk style, which has been described as "a post Manic Street Preachers rock 'n' roll rush".

Whilst on TVT, they released a string of singles; "On A Noose", "Fuck It Up", "How Rude She Was", "Air Guitar" and "I'm A Rat".

The band's performance was received well, but due to fighting backstage after another group allegedly stole their property, they are now banned from returning to the Download Festival.

In the spring of 2006, the band travelled to New York City to join The Pogues as support for their annual U.S. Saint Patrick Day shows,[7] at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square.

The show, named simply The Towers of London, featured footage of various performances including the 2005 Download Festival which saw them banned from the event.

In 2007, The Rev and Snell participated in the Mighty Boosh episode "Journey to the Centre of the Punk" as members of the band Terminal Margaret.

However, Towers of London would continue their tour throughout July, drafting in friends Kristian Marr and Aaron Attwood to fill the positions.

The band then retreated to prepare their second album, releasing four songs called "The Bible", "The Towers Waltz", "Naked on the Dancefloor" and "Start the Rupt" on their MySpace page.

Towers of London auditioned for a new drummer and lead guitar player, meeting such musicians as Ben Taylor, (who went on to drum for the Towers at their comeback gig in Harlow), Julian Molinero from Medusa and guitarist Tom Earl (formerly of the hard rock groups Rope & Widow and Swallow This).

More recently, they formed a punk outfit, DAY 21, with Jimmy Pursey and bassist Mat Sargent from Sham 69.

The Rev went on to play with The Howling, before leaving that group and becoming the lead guitarist for the live incarnation of Ginger Wildheart's Hey!

A few months later, the band updated their MySpace with a selection of dates for mid October 2008, where a mini-tour would occur to coincide with their new album, Fizzy Pop (released 29 September), with a school friend on drums.

In October 2022 it was announced that the documentary would have its European Premiere at the Doc n Roll Festival in London in November 2022 but was also withdrawn due to unknown reasons.