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 14/07/08 Our mate Cider's great photos of the Sheldon Marquee gig 12/07/08 can be seen here 27/01/08 Review of Rock And A Hard Place from the italian website From Burn To Now (review by Umberto Meoni, translation by Mario Fraschetti)   14/1/08
The
new Handsome Beasts line-up is now complete, our new bass player is
Shawn Till.Shawn is a long time friend and for the last couple of years has fronted a Motorhead tribute called Motorkill. We can't wait to get this version of The Beasts out on the road and your first chance to check it out will be at The Sheldon Marquee, Birmingham on 16th Feb.   10/12/07 HI ALL, I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY A BIG BIG THANKS TO BEAST FANS EVERYWHERE FOR NOT ISSUING ME WITH ANY DEATH THREATS FOR JOINING THEIR BELOVED BAND AND FOR EMBRACING ME LIKE ONE OF THEIR OWN.....OF SORTS......IM TOUCHED.....OR IS THAT TAPPED.....I NEVER COULD TELL THE DIFFERENCE. JUST FOR THE RECORD I CAN STATE HAND ON MY HEART/CROTCH....(SAME DIFFERENCE) I DO NOT INTEND TO CHANGE THE BEASTS IN ANY WAY MUSICALLY EXCEPT FOR NOT HAVING A BIG BLOKE AT THE FRONT SO YOU NEED WORRY NOT ABOUT THAT. THEIR SOUND MUSICALLY TURNS ME ON AND GIVES ME THE VIDEO GAME KILL VIBE SO THATS OK BY ME. OBVIOUSLY THE NEW LINE UP WILL SOUND A LITTLE DIFFERENT TO WHAT YOU HAVE BECOME USED TO.....BUT HEY YOU CANT HANG ME FOR THAT. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING BEASTS AND WRATH FANS ALIKE WHEN WE HIT THE ROAD AND FOR ANYONE WHO HAS FORGOTTEN WHAT I LOOK LIKE IM THE SKINNY HANDSOME BLOKE WITH THE RED HAIR AND BIG BOOTS.....THATS BOOTS WITH AN "S" NOT BOOBS WITH A "B"....I DUNNO THO' LAST BUT NOT LEAST I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE MIRIADS OF PEOPLE WHO SAID THAT THEY LIKED MY VOICE SO MUCH THAT EVEN IF I HAD JOINED "RIGHT SAID FRED" THEY WOULD STILL COME TO LISTEN TO ME. YOU DIDNT MISS MY VOICE HALF AS MUCH AS I DID NEARLY 8 YRS SINGING BLUES BROS TUNES CAN ALMOST MAKE YOU FORGET WHERE YOU TRUELY BELONG. BUT BELIEVE THE WORST THE VOICE IS BACK, LOUDER THAN EVER, THE MOTOR ON THE MOUTH IS UNFATIGUABLE AND GUARANTEED FOR LIFE. THE ATTITUDE IS B.A.D AND THE ENERGY IS ENDLESS.....ENJOY. LATER.....HELLS MINIONS ROCKY  09/12/07 Due
to other commitments Simon "Mongo" Hall and Si "Fungus " Fielding
have left The Handsome Beasts. The remaining members wish them well in
their other ventures and good luck in the future.Our new singer will be none other than Rocky Shades, former frontman of the notorious shock rock band Wrathchild. Here is what Rocky has to say: THE GREAT MIDLAND ROCK INSTITUTION THAT IS THE HEAVY ROCK BAND "THE HANDSOME BEASTS" HAVE JUST BECOME INSTITUTIONALIZED AS THEY HAVE JOINED FORCES WITH NONE OTHER THAN THE CRAZY MOTORMOUTH FRONTMAN EXTRORDINAIRE THAT IS ME ROCKY SHADES. THIS WILL COME AS A SHOCK TO BOTH BEASTS AND WRATH FANS ALIKE AS BOTH OF THE PREVIOUS BEASTS VOCALISTS WERE A BIT ON THE NOT SO THIN SIDE......NO OFFENCE MEANT AND GOD BLESS YOU FLABBY. I CAN STATE MOST CATEGORICALLY BY JOINING THIS BAND I HAVE NO INTENTION OF EATING ALL THE PIES, OR BECOMING A REGULAR VISITOR TO THE KEBAB SHOP SO WILL BRING A NEW DIMENSION TO AN ALREADY KILLER KICK ASS BAND. ANYONE WHO IS NOW FUMING AT THE P.C. SCREEN CHILL OUT, THE NEW BEASTS WILL BE THE ULTIMATE BEASTS AS I INTEND TO INHANCE NOT DESTROY THEIR ALREADY CAST IN STONE REPUTATION. AL, MARK AND MICK ARE AS CRAZY AS I AM AND THAT SUITS US JUST FINE. THEY LIKE THEIR ROCK HARD BUT NOT SERIOUS AND WHO THE F**K WOULD TAKE ME SERIOUS ANYWAY HA HA HA. IF YOU ARE NEW TO THIS BAND CHECK THEM OUT I TRIED THEM AND LIKED THEM SO MUCH I KEPT THEM. ALL YOU R.S.W. FANS DO NOT DESPAIR AS INBETWEEN WORKING WITH THE "BEASTS" AND THE BIRMINGHAM BLUES BROTHERS I HAVE EVERY INTENTION OF FINISHNG WHAT I STARTED OR ANOTHER PUPPY GETTS FED TO THE TIGERS. THAT DOESNT MEAN IM TAKING THIS DUTY LIGHTLY, I WILL GIVE THE BEASTS 500% PLUS AS ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO CROSS PATHS WITH ME KNOW THAT I NEVER UNDER DELIVER ANYTHING. ANYONE OUT THERE WHO WANTS TO BOOK THIS NEW VERSION OF PERVERSION CAN CONTACT US THROUGH THE HANDSOME BEASTS "MY SPACE" SITE AND NOT THROUGH ME AS IM THE NEW BOY IN THE CAMP AND HAVENT GOT PAST THE MAKING TEA AND CLOSING THE REHEARSAL ROOM GATE STAGE. SERIOUSLY THOUGH AS SOON AS WE ARE GIG READY WE WILL HIT THE BOARDS SO YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELVES. REHEARSALS ARE CURRENTLY GOING GREAT GUNS AND A NEW ALBUM IS DUE EARLY NEW YEAR......TITLE OF WHICH IS SUCH A CLOSELY GUARDED SECRET IF I WAS TO LET A LITTLE HINT SLIP I WOULD BE DEADMEAT NOT FRESH MEAT. FOR FURTHER NEWS WATCH THIS SPACE AND NOW GET READY FOR WAR ON THE METAL DANCEFLOOR. ROCKY "WREKKLESS" SHADES 21/10/07 Review of "Rock In A Hard Place" from novembers Classic Rock magazine “We’re pragmatic, we know we’ll never be rock stars,” singer Simon ‘Mongo’ Hall told a highly responsive audience at the Rock And Blues Custom show earlier this summer. He’s probably correct, but there will always be a place for a band as unremittingly entertaining as the Handsome Beasts. Many wrongly assumed the veteran Brits would fold when man-mountain frontman Garry ‘Flabby’ Dalloway died last year. Instead, Hall – possessed of equally formidable girth and charisma – seizes the mic for a fourth album of wide-tread, souped-up dragster-blues. Although it doesn’t quite match the group’s unmissable live show, there are at least half a dozen great, hook-laden ditties on this 11-song CD, including Heartbreaker, Animal, Headstrong and the surging, chest-beating title cut. 7 /
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