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Why
rose ofavalanche.com?
The
Rose where one of the many bands that my mates and I used to go
and see virtually every night of the week between 1986 and the
early nineties. A lot of what was interesting back then originated
from the Leeds scene, so we were following bands like The Mission, The Rose, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Salvation, Ghostdance,
etc Times
and tastes moved on and the "Leeds scene" began to fall
apart in the early 90's. I then picked up the American invasion of
grunge going to see bands like Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees,
Smashing Pumpkins and Alice In Chains. However the flame for my
first love never died. I got a PC, the internet started to catch
on, so I thought I should throw together a web site and fulfil my
suppressed journalistic ambitions! At the time there were loads of
sites around covering the "bigger" bands of the Leeds
scene like the Sisters and the Mish so I thought why not focus on
the Rose boys, always totally under rated and largely ignored by
the UK music press. Amazingly
15 years on I'm still here!! Initially
the site was little more than a personal indulgence so I expected
no interest, but I was amazed when emails and guest book messages
started arriving from literally all over the world. For a while I
even had a Korean guy running a mirror of the site fully
translated into Korean (Hi Jiwook if you are still around). It was
nice to know that other people remembered the band, and also
people actually liked what I was producing. A
change in direction since first creating the site in 1996 has been
the recent growth in social media. I've tried to keep up with the
times and without really noticing I've now created a Rose presence
on more than seven social media sites. Maintaining all that, plus
roseofavalanche.com, was becoming a major headache so I've taken
the decision to refocus roseofavalanche.com Going
forward MySpace and Facebook will be the primary places to get
fresh material and to chat with other fans. The forum on
roseofavalanche.com never really took off, yet I've seen great
interaction on the Rose Facebook page, and in a fraction of the
time the forum was hanging around collecting cobwebs. Don’t’
worry roseofavalanche.com is not going anywhere! It will now act
as a hub to link out to the various Rose social sites, plus remain
home to the library of reference material that I have written over
the years. Of
course none of this would have grown from the handful of amateur
scans I threw together 15 years ago without the contributions from
fellow Rose fans, enhancing roseofavalanche.com’s status as the
one and only source of Rose info on the web. Thanks for support
and material to (in no particular order): Paul James Berry, Glenn
Shultz, Andy Porter, Steve Myers, Treena Waller, Richard Head,
Matthew Rees, Heinrich Moritz, Jonathan Pullen, Lisa Gannon,
Jiwook, Lyall I Anderson, Joern Kolbe, and everyone else that has
been in touch over the years… Thanks
for stopping by, enjoy the sites, and please get in touch. James Parton, updated August 2010.
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