The Invaders

The Invaders, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are a World Renown, award winning band that has been performing for over two decades! influence by early Jamaican Ska legends like Desmond Dekker and Laurel Aitken and the British "Two-Tone" movement including the Specials, English Beat and Bad Manners. The Invaders have also been compared to their contemporaries such as Danny Elfman's Oingo Boingo, the Police and L.A.'s Fishbone. The Invaders mold influences into their own brand of original fuel-injected Ska. Originally formed in 1987 and taking their name from the old 1960's television show of the same name, they played a vast array of 60's garage grunge and 80's college rock. This also helped shape the writings of band leader and singer, Max. In 1989 the band re-invented themselves as a stricktly Ska band, releasing "Skank Tank" in 1991. Through-out the 1990's, the band toured heavily in the U.S.(in their signature black Checkerd Bus), released four more projects and appeared on over 24 compilations!
AWARDS include three WAMI (Wisconsin Area Music Industry) awards for Best Ska Group 1999, 2000 and 2008. Voted Best Milwaukee Band by the "Shepard Express" Reader's Poll in 1998. The band signed to New Haven, CT Record Label, Elevator Records in 1996 and released the CD "All That's Normal Turns To Chaos." The band took a hiatus in 2000 to do side projects including "Seven-O-Seven" and "the Fallout" while still doing an occasional Invader show. During this period, tragedy struck when Invader Saxist Stephan "Woody" Angelos passed away suddenly from an accidental overdose. Something that effected the band members deeply and enforced their anti-drug stance!
Coming off hiatus in 2006 with new songs and enthusiasm, the band continue to perform to masses of sweat soaked concert goers playing the new music and the Invader classics! The Invaders feel their fans are the best.second to none! The energy radiated by them only fuels the band more on stage! In 2008 The Band released their first new studio CD since 1996, "Where Ya Gone?" still available now. The band plans on releasing another studio CD and a Vinyl single in the fall of 2011.
Clubs, Colleges and festivals can expect crowds dancing to the positive vibrations of The Invaders. See and hear why this group has become legendary as one of the best bands the 3rd wave of Ska music has produced.
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