When Ash were interviewed last summer as the band were celebrating their twentieth anniversary, frontman Tim Wheeler openly confessed that, “I never would have expected to have got to this point really. We never really had a plan of more …
Along with Phil Lewis and Phil Collen, Gerry Laffy’s first taste of fame came in the late 1970s as one-fifth of the glam rock group Girl. Having disbanded after only two albums, Collen went on to join Def Leppard, who …
Robbie Tart first emerged from Britain’s rock scene in 1989, when his short-lived hair metal group Heartbreak Angels released the double A-side Shoot Me Down/Desperado. Originally performing under the stage name Robbie Jay Dee, Tart had high hopes for his …
Back in February, Bieler Bros. Records announced that their co-founder, Jason Bieler, had launched a new project entitled Owl Stretching. And the first taste of his latest venture was a reworking of The Lizard, a song he first recorded as …
The Wildhearts may currently be on an indefinite hiatus, but frontman Ginger has remained as active as ever with a host of upcoming projects. Over the last two years he has performed both electric and acoustic sets at the Download …
The Quireboys first emerged during the late 1980s with the classic singles There She Goes Again and Hey You, incorporating elements of blues and rock ‘n’ roll with their acclaimed debut A Bit of What You Fancy. The band initially …
For a time during the mid-1990s industrial became one of the most popular types of heavy metal, with forerunners such as Ministry, Nine Inch Nails and KMFDM paving the way for the likes of Stabbing Westward and Gravity Kills. Even …
Mark Hamilton was still a teenager when he became a rock star. Following his short-lived high school garage band Vietnam, bassist Hamilton and singer Tim Wheeler formed Ash with drummer Rick McMurray and, inspired by the American grunge scene, released the seven-track EP …
Emerging from the Manchester music scene, Dear Superstar gained minor acclaim with their first two full-length releases, Confessions of a Twisted Mind and Heartless, before launching their own studio, where they recorded their third album Damned Religion, which surfaced earlier …
Heavy metal was always considered a boys club, where long-haired, leather-clad men sang songs about sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. But even as early as the 1970s and 1980s there were a handful of artists who challenged this theory, …
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