Fire Next Time (1980s band)

Fire Next Time
Origin	Leicester, England
Genres	New wave, power pop, blue-eyed soul
Years active	1986 - 1988
Labels	Stiff Records, Polydor Records
Past members	James Maddock, Geoff Sapsford, James O'Malley, Lee Humber, Martin Hughes, Nick Muir, Ray Weston

Fire Next Time were a four-piece left-wing soul band from Leicester who released four singles and one album from 1986 to 1988.

The band took its name from the 1963 book The Fire Next Time by African-American novelist and social critic James Baldwin.

From Leicester, Fire Next Time played up-tempo soul in the vein of The Redskins and The Blades. Lead singer James Maddock's writing style and voice was compared favourably at the time to Bruce Springsteen. Though their first single with Stiff Records was well-received and a record signing followed with Polydor, the band failed to reach a wide audience.

Maddock later formed 'Wood' who gained critical success with their 1999 album 'Songs from Stamford Hill' and has gone on to have a successful solo career since his relocation to New York City in 2003.

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