Goldblade - Topic

Goldblade are an English punk rock band from Manchester, England. The band formed in early 1995 when ex Membranes frontman, John Robb, put the band together with Wayne Simmons and former Membranes and A Witness vocalist Keith Curtis on bass, Rob Haynes on drums and Jay Taylor on guitar.
The band signed to Ultimate Records and released their first single, "Soul Power", before releasing several more singles and two albums - Home Turf, and Goldblade Drop the Bomb before Simmons departed. In 2000, Goldblade then recruited a new percussionist, Martin Gray, into the line up and recorded two further singles "AC/DC" and "Who Was The Killa?" together with a third album Do You Believe In The Power Of Rock 'n' Roll all released in 2002 on a new label, Twenty Stone Blatt.
In 2001, Jay Taylor left the band to concentrate on his Bonebox project, and two new members Johny Skullknuckles and Pete 'Gorgeous' Byrchmore were recruited to begin work on the next album, Rebel Songs. Second percussionist Gray left shortly after the recording sessions, and the album was released in 2005 on the Captain Oi! label.