Likes: Pizza, Blade Runner, being in a band, online computer gaming, Stella Artois, parrots, breaking the seal on a new jar of coffee, the moment of elation that comes just before you realise that you have REALLY screwed up, the relief that follows when you find you can blame it on someone else
Dislikes: Bands that "met at the audition", bad manners in any form, people who do not know how to switch off their mobile phones, songs that are 90% sampled from an 80's/90's hit with some inane drivel put over the top and then passed off as new.
Favorite albums: Idlewild - The Remote Part, Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern, Eels - Beautiful Freak, Interpol – Antics, and many, many, more.
Lineage
Towards the end of the nineties Guy Lawton and E first met up and started to learn to play guitar and also write songs together under the title of Chaos @ the Urn, an arrangement that continues on an occasional basis to the present day.
In the year 2000 they both moved to Shropshire with their day jobs and met up with Chris Thorley, Ken Vernon, Mark Thorley, and a few others and a covers band developed and started performing in the local area under the banner of Ten Watt Ghost.
This was the first time most of us had performed in public, with the exception of Chris, who had several years of experience with various other bands. At the same time Guy and E still had an interest in original material and along with a chap called Jamie, started looking around for people to join them in a song writing side project. Mark and Ken were quickly recruited from 10WG, (which by this time had grown in size to over ten regular members!) and Monkey Knife Fight was formed. Several good songs were written and a demo CD produced. Perhaps the finest song from this era is "Did Not Commit", which later became an important part of the Red Star Radio set list.
Sadly Jamie's day job forced him to move away and left MKF missing a player. Luckily it didn't take long to persuade Chris Thorley that MKF was "A Good Thing" and he was drafted in. To reflect the new line up, a new name was chosen and Red Star Radio was born.
After recording most of our album, Mark departed to join another band (we were not 'Rock' enough!). A succession of replacement drummers followed until finally Chris took over on the sticks. We then welcomed another colleague from Ten Watt Ghost, Paul Beattie, who took his place on guitar and vocals.
At the end of 2004 various external commitments forced us to bring R*R to an end. Chris and Guy continue to perform acoustic sets around Leicester under the R*R banner and Ken, Paul, and E continued together, performing covers once more, for a further 6 months until we all went our separate ways.
In one of those neat cyclical type moments, in autumn 2005 Guy and E were once more writing a song as Chaos @ The Urn when Guy suggested drafting in Rollasoc to help out with some computery stuff. With Guy gone back to Rutland, Rollasoc and E decided to carry on working together on a few ideas they had kicking around and The Hair Thieves gained another member. (Note: The song they was writing was called "Break The Casino" which appears on the Hair Thieves EP1)
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