The Darling Buds in September 2014, and two headline shows at London's Lexington in April 2015. The Darling Buds released the "Evergreen" EP, their first new material in 25 years, on Oddbox Records on 28 April 2017, and followed this up with a digital-only single, New Year, on 15 December 2018. The Darling Buds The Darling Buds are an alternative rock band from Newport, South Wales. The band formed in 1986 and were named after the H. E. Bates novel "The Darling Buds of May" – a title taken in turn, from the third line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Rough winds do shake
USS William H. Bates (SSN-680) USS William H. Bates (SSN-680) USS "William H. Bates" (SSN-680), a "Sturgeon"-class attack submarine, was planned to be the second U.S. Navy ship to be named USS "Redfish"—for the redfish, a variety of salmon also called blueback, sawqui, red salmon, and nerka—when the contract to build her was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 25 June 1968. However, upon the 22 June 1969 death of William H. Bates (1917–1969), the U.S. Representative from Massachusetts's 6th Congressional District (1950–1969) known for his staunch support of nuclear propulsion in the U.S. Navy, she was renamed "William H. Bates" and was