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Vocal/Guitar --- Gavin McGregor Rossdale
Guitar --- Nigel Kenneth Pulsford
Base --- Dave Guy Parsons
Drums --- Robin James Goodridge
Keyboard --- Sasha Puttnam

This contemporary rock band, formed in west London,
England, found their initial success in the USA,
where college radio was the first to pick up on tracks
from their debut album, released on Interscope Records
subsidiary Trauma. By the summerof 1995 that record
had become a million-seller, while highly promoted
UK artistssuch as Blur and Oasis were still struggling
to achieve one tenth of those sales. This was largely
attributable to Bush's musical style - generic grunge
sitting somewhere between Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.
However, Bush had previously spent two years toiling
around small London venues, despite being managed by
Dave Dorrell, the man behind MARRS' UK number 1,
'Pump Up The Volume'. The songs on Sixteen Stonewere
principally written by vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale

(b. 1967, Kilburn, London, England). Rossdale,
a former student at Westminster school who had trials
for Chelsea Football Club, had previously recorded
two singles with his first bandMidnight, who also
included in their ranks film director David Puttnam's
son Sasha. After that group was dropped, he spent
six months in California in 1991 - significantly,
seeing Nirvana at Los Angeles' Roxy Club during this time.
The songs on Sixteen Stone dealt with issues as diverse
as the bombing of a Covent Garden pub
('Bomb'), death

('Little Things'), religious cults
('Monkey') and sex

('Testosterone'). The rest ofthe band comprises Dave Parsons

(b. 2 July 1962, Uxbridge, London, England; bass,
ex- Transvision Vamp ), Robin Goodridge
(b. 1966, Crawley,
Sussex, England; drums, ex-Beautiful People) and Nigel
Pulsford
(b. 1964, Newport, Gwent, Wales; guitar,
ex-King Blank). They made the US connection when disc
jockey Gary Crowley passed one of their tapes to Rob Kahane,
former manager of George Michael and in the processof
setting up his own Trauma Records label. An earlier
agreement with the Walt Disney-owned Hollywood Records
in 1993 had sundered when Kahane's relations with the label
soured. After gaining airplay on Los Angeles' KROQ
station in late 1994, particularlyfor the single
'Everything Zen', interest in the band snowballed.
By 1996 this had resulted in three million sales of
their debut, at which time they confirmed an intriguing
choice of producer for the follow-up set - Steve Albini.
Bush are a phenomenon: no UK act with such an indifferent
reception in their homeland has experienced such success
elsewhere. Their excellent follow-up, Razorblade Suitcase,
entered the US album chart at number 1 at the end of 1996,
and following in the wakewas the UK, who finally recognized
the band's existence by buying enough copies to put
them in the album chart.