Thunderstick is back!!!
Thunderstick is back with a brand new studio album which remains true to the band’s original ‘classic rock’ style: ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’
First noticed playing with a developing Iron Maiden in the
seventies then moving to Samson (being instrumental in finding a very youthful
Bruce Dickinson) Barry Graham Purkis became the figurehead of the newly
emerging NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) scene. This was done by
creating an alter ego Thunderstick, a masked persona known not only for his
wild style of playing his drums but doing so from inside a cage and terrorizing
audiences. He went on to form his own highly theatrical band in the eighties.
Fronted by a female rock ’n’ roll wildchild Thunderstick the band was a perfect
‘Beauty and the Beast’ combination, playing live and recording for five years
until it folded in 1987. Never to be seen again until now……
Talking about the album Thunderstick said “This is an album that is befitting of the
Thunderstick of another era, but screams relevance for today.”
“The whole thing came about because of the tragic death of
our former vocalist Jodee Valentine at just 55. Jodee’s passing hit me really
hard and I wanted to do something in her memory. There are some songs that we
were playing live first time around that had never been released, coupled with
some new tracks that have been written purely for this album. A new line up. A
new album. A new era.”
The album is scheduled to released at the end of July 2017 with the the
classic Thunderstick band format of female vocalist, two guitars, bass and
drums and the first Thunderstick album of new material in over three decades.Musicians on the album are: Thunderstick (drums), Martin Shellard (guitars(, David Kandy Kilford (guitars), Rex Thunderbolt (bass) and Lucy V (vocals).
The CD album will be available for purchase via Thunderstick’s Facepage page.