GuilFest 2006. The 3 Day Guildford Music Festival on 14th, 15th and 16th July 2006

About the bands
return to main menu [return]

Artist: The GA GA's
Genre: Rock
Performing: 17th July 2005 / The Rocksound Cave Stage
Website Address: [www.thegagas.com]
...................................................................

In April of 2002, after a year of turmoil, travelling and writing, Tommy – Singer / Guitarist / Songwriter - decided he needed to find three like-minded and equally disturbed individuals to share in his dream of creating and awesome new rock band. A demo of some new material was recorded, with all the instruments bar the drums being played by the Somerset born 19 year old, and adverts for “ROCK STAR DRUMMERS, BASSISTS AND GUITARISTS” exploded across the UK’s music press.

The first pilgrim to heed the call was Jason, with whom Tommy had unwittingly crossed paths a year or so previous to this encounter at a gig in Manchester. Jason’s talent was unquestionable and his understanding of “THE SONG” was unprecedented in any drummer Tommy had ever met. This man was clearly a beast, and swiftly joined Tommy on his quest for rock immortality.

After an initially poor response from the UK’s bass-playing fraternity, Tommy took a day out and went to the Distortion Festival in Nottingham. It was here that he met Ginger of The Wildhearts fame who informed him of a bass-wielding rock pirate he knew by the name of Toshi. Once again, Tommy and Toshi had crossed paths some time ago when their previous bands had played a show together at J.B’s in Dudley. Numbers were exchanged and a couple of weeks later Toshi swaggered into the rehearsal room, plugged into the fucked-up house amp and blew Jason and Tommy away. He was the one.

The band, high on new horizons, decided to head for the recording studio. They were desperate to hear how they ultimately sounded from the more objective position of the studio couch. They spent two and a half weeks holed up under the beady eye of the studio clock, and endured many difficult hours in labour, giving birth to themselves, along with many more hours of heroically drunken shenanigans- after work hours, naturally.

Some 17 days later, they emerged with a product that everyone was buzzing about. At last they were able to really hear themselves. They were naked in front of the new- found audio mirror, and they looked fucking good.

As the band headed back to London, Tommy turned to Jason, Toshi and Rob, and with a wry smile, simply uttered…”THE*GA*GA*S are coming”