Bladderwrack Rock Band

The History of BladderWrack

This is the third incarnation of the phenomenon that is BladderWrack. Back in, or around, May 2007, the founding fathers, Evil Len (rhythm guitar), Mark on drums, and Karl on lead guitar and vocals, started the band from the ashes of a previous band called Decades. The erstwhile trio then went on the hunt for a bassist and found Bob Croft. That was how BladderWrack came to be. However after a single half hour gig, Karl turned out to be focussed in a different musical direction to the other band members, so after a barely readable drunken email from Mark, Karl decided to leave. Plans were put in motion to replace him. Various websites of ill repute were trawled through, various lead guitarists were dallied with, the culmination of which, was that Pete (lead guitar) turned up for an audition and refused to go away.

Consequently, in November 2007 the second version of Bladder Wrack was formed, with Bob now on lead vocals as well as the bass guitar. The band put together a set of rock and pop numbers and hit the pub and party gig circuit. As time went on, for just over a year there were many notable successes, but Bob wanted to play a different style of music to the other three and as a consequence of this and external pressures, in early 2009 he left.

Evil Len, Mark and Pete ditched the gentle ballads and dragged a collection of hard hitting rock tracks into the set. They then set about recruiting a bassist and lead vocalist/front man. Adverts and auditions ensued, with the great success of finding two superb band members for the third version of BladderWrack. Graeme, a six foot, red haired, kilt wearing scot on lead vocals and Barrie (bass guitar) aka Baz the Bass or the Bazmeistre Generale. It’s fair to say, this enabled BladderWrack to reach new heights of performance and entertainment.

So ...

Five guys, one direction. Be prepared for the best BladderWrack ever. A band formed to build on the contribution of past band members and to keep on improving what we offer our audience. Graham will be giving a fresh new approach to the way we sound vocally, a new rhythm section with the ‘Mark and Baz combo’..... and Pete & Evil Len still on guitars (well you can’t have everything!). Check out the “Gigs” section of the website for our next performance and/or leave us your contact details so we can keep you updated on the topsy turvy world of BladderWrack! We’re on Facebook too... and MySpace !

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