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.