Roland Reward presents Fantastic Younger Cannibals at 40 anniversary exhibits.
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 a good time 40 years, the band’s greatest chart hit, She Drives Me Loopy, has turn into one of many hottest tracks of 2025 to this point, because of a Chanel purse advert marketing campaign that includes Dua Lipa and Ok-pop star Jennie of BLACKPINK. The observe 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 all the time used to say we needed folks to be enjoying our data 25 years after they have been launched, the way in which we listened to Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye – it seems to be like we did that, and rather more. Johnny, Good Factor, She Drives Me Loopy, I’m Not The Man I Used To Be, Suspicious Minds, I nonetheless love enjoying these songs and other people nonetheless love listening to them. So come and be part of us in London and Birmingham, it might change your life, on the very least it will likely be an awesome evening 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 Dwelling 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 Scorching 100 No.1s She Drives Me Loopy and Good Factor. In 1990, the band gained two Brit Awards for Finest British Group and Finest British Album.
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