Chameleons

The Chameleons are a British post-punk group formed in Middleton, Greater Manchester, around Mark Burgess, Reg Smithies, Dave Fielding and John Lever. Radio presenter John Peel discovered them in 1981, and they debuted in 1982 with the track In Shreds.

Between 1983 and 1986 they released three landmark albums: Script of the Bridge, What Does Anything Mean? Basically! and Strange Times. They split up at the end of the 1980s, briefly reunited in the early 2000s and recorded Why Call It Anything?. In 2021, Burgess and Smithies rebuilt the line-up with Stephen Rice on guitar, Danny Ashberry on keyboards and Todd Demma on drums.

In Madrid they are presenting Arctic Moon (2025), their first full-length album in more than two decades, made up of seven songs and preceded by the single Where Are You?. The band has also contributed the track Rock n Roll Star to the charity compilation A Goth Deed For Palestine: Volume II.