Just to buck the Internet trend, Ian Rushbury is a 14-year-old girl masquerading as a 45 year old man.
...no he isn't.
Ian Rushbury writes the occasional toe-tapping tune and plays Bass with Garage Rockers The Ultraphonics and Roots-Rockin' Electric Shed and Drums in the lovely Valuable Fools, all based in Birmingham UK. He has done this for over twenty years. You think he'd know better by now.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS TO DATE 1986: Debut gig with The Nameless at the Bulls Head, Birmingham in front of 40 paying punters.
1987: Forms Dave 'Big Hair' Wagstaff's Shark Infested Custard Blues Band with the long-suffering Pete Holder. Decide name is a tad wordy and change it to T's Basement. Welcome to 20 years of misspellings.
May 1988: Fired from (name removed as he doesn't want to give them any publicity) after calling the singer 'A Knob'.
June 1988: Singer fired for being 'A Knob'
1989: Joins Little Red Schoolhouse. They have a record deal! They have a following! Release 'Grubby Highway, Country Lane' LP on Cherry Red. Makes a loss of £500. Travels the UK, sitting on the wheel arch of a Transit Van. Becomes an expert on 'Where to eat on the M6 at 3.30 a.m.'
1991: Joins Glove Puppet Orchestra. An Art-Rock project, specialising in putting everything through a Wah-wah pedal and hoping for the best. They send a demo tape to Donovan...he liked it!
1992: Forms 'UK's third biggest Pagan Rock band', Druidspear. (Google 'em - I double dare you!) Play a selection of gigs ranging from pretty damn good to downright woeful across the UK. In a short but 'interesting' career the band go through 165 members, are knighted by Arthur Pendragon - the 'real' King of England, jam with 60's legend Arthur Brown in a leather tent using amplifiers powered by sweaty blokes on bicycles, headline the Wulfrun Hall, release a CD ('...Slow') which sells out it's initial pressing with fans all over the world and then slowly and painfully self destruct over a number of months...
1996: Forms Anorakula with the long-suffering Pete Holder. A shameless, play the hits, weddings, parties, Bar Mitzvahs, anything band. Over the course of 10 years they earn enough money to not quite break even and eat enough buffet food to maintain a certain degree of plumpness. A massive repertoire of tunes ranging from the good ('I Fought The Law'), to the bad ('Mustang F**king Sally') to the ugly ('Don't Fear The Reaper'). Sadly, they never played a Bar Mitzvah, but they did perform at a Divorce party...
2005: Decides he can play drums and joins The Valuable Fools. He may not be very good, but he is punctual and spends freely at the bar. He also has a car, which is very important.
2006: Reforms Electric Shed with the long-suffering Pete Holder. Decides that original music is the way forward. As a consequence, becomes skint. On the plus side, starts losing weight due to lack of Chicken Drumsticks, Pork Pie and Black Forest Gateaux.
2007: Buys a really nice 12 String Guitar and starts writing tunes again.
2008: Releases 'What's Next Dad?' CD with the Valuable Fools. A year and a half to record. Airplay in Canada. Only 96,000,726 sales behind 'Thriller'. Day jobs not given up.
2009: Forms Garage Rock non-apologists The Ultraphonics. Here we go again...
I and I and I before E except after C thankyou for your sniggerworthy comment. Rushbo sir. i'm sorry i've been away too long. Those songs of yours are EXCELLENT. Brilliant. keep em coming please. DV
Just to buck the Internet trend, Ian Rushbury is a 14-year-old girl masquerading as a 45 year old man.
