TIGERTAILZ Parts Ways With Drummer

July 16, 2010

Long-running U.K. glam rockers TIGERTAILZ have parted ways with drummer Matt Blakout. The group says in a statement, "The rest of the band wish Matt all the best in whatever he decides to do next. TIGERTAILZ are also very pleased to announce the re-instatement of former original drummer Ace Finchum for the remainder of the Bezerk 2010 gigs."

TIGERTAILZ made its live debut with new bassist Sarah Firebrand on April 17 at the rock club Fuel in Cardiff. The concert paid tribute to band co-founder Pepsi Tate, with all proceeds going to Amser Justin Time, the cancer charity set up in the bassist's memory.

As the U.K.'s answer to POISON and MÖTLEY CRÜE, TIGERTAILZ was the only U.K.-based band of this ilk to dominate the U.K. charts at the end of the '80s with "Bezerk" hitting the U.K. Top 40 and a U.K. Top 5 live video release filmed in their hometown Cardiff, "Bezerk Live" and "Video Frenzy". With songs that became Top 40 hits and were so catchy you couldn't stop singing them for days, "Love Bomb Baby", "Noize Level Critical", "Heaven" and "Living Without You" all became good time party anthems of a generation, and have influenced some of the contemporary acts of today.

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