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18 Wheeler was a Scottish rock band
active in the early 1990s,
consisting of Sean Jackson (vocals, guitar), David
Keenan (guitar, vocals), Alan Hake (bass), and Neil Halliday (drums). Original
bassist Chris "Pint Glass"
Stewart left before any recordings were made, and was replaced by
original drummer Hake.
They met with very mixed reviews from the British press - many
critics felt they were too similar to their influences, but some others
saw the range of these influences as potentially a good thing. Keenan
left in 1994
to start his own group, the Telstar Ponies and was
replaced by guitarist Steven Haddow. In the same year, the
band released their first album Twin Action on Creation
Records and in 1995
they released their second album, Formanka.
Their third album Year
Zero, which saw them take a more experimental
sample based approach, was released in early 1997. They were
subsequently dropped by Creation following the recording of what was to
be their fourth studio release. Although Alan
Hake has stated that Creation Records did allow the band to
keep the master tapes to this album, no plans to officially release it
have materialised. Hake went on to co-found the Must
Destroy record label.
The band were once introduced by Tony Blair
at the 1996 Labour
Party Conference. The future Prime Minister
managed to wrongly introduce them as "Wheeler 18".
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Contents
- 1 Line
up
- 2 Discography
- 2.1 Studio
albums
- 2.2 Singles
and EPs
- 3 External
links
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Line up
- Sean Jackson: Guitars, Vocals, Bass and
Piano
- Neil Halliday: Percussion, Vocals,
Guitars and Synth
- Alan Hake: Bass, Vocals, Guitar
and Moog
- Steve Haddow:
- David Keenan:
Discography
Studio albums
Twin Action
(1994, CRECD164)
Formanka
(1995, CRECD181 & CRECD181L)
Year Zero
(1997, CRECD192)
Singles and EPs
- Nature Girl
- The Revealer
- Boddha
- Steel Guitars
- Boddha
- The Hours And The Times
- Crabs
- Stay
- Grease
- Prozac Beats
External links
