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Rose of Avalanche.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 1985 and the early nineties. A lot of
what was going on back then originated from the Leeds area, so we
were following bands like The
Mission, The Rose, Red Lorry Yellow
Lorry, Salvation, Ghostdance, etc
Times and tastes move on
and the "Leeds scene" began to fall apart in the early
90's, and I picked up the American invasion of grunge going to see
bands like Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Smashing Pumpkins and Alice
In Chains.
The flame for my first
love never died though. I then got a PC, the internet started to
explode, 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 day like the Mish so I thought "lets focus on the Rose
boys", always totally under rated and largely ignored by the
UK music press.
14 years on I'm amazingly
still here!!
The site was little more
than a creative vent 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.
I've now met or spoken to
most of the the ex members of the band over the years, only Phil
so far managing to avoid me. Drop me a mail Phil, you know you
want to ;-)
Most importantly, the site
wouldn't have grown without the many contriubtions of other fans
that have sent in photo's and contributions to
keep the site fresh over the years, enhanceing it's status as the only source of
Rose info on the internet.
Since the original website in 1996
the internet has come on some what and now I have associated Rose
sites on MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and iLike, see the links
section to check them out.
Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the site, and
please get in touch via email or the forum.
James
Parton, January 2009.
Thanks for support and
material to (in no particular order): Paul James Berry, Glenn
Shultz, Andy Porter, Steve Myers, Richard Head, Matthew Rees,
Heinrich Moritz, Jonathan Pullen, Lisa Gannon, Jiwook,
Lyall I Anderson, Joern Kolbe, and everyone else that has been in touch.
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