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They got through to heats for T in the Park
in Glasgow and narrowly lost out to some blatant vote rigging!! April '98
saw the exit of Russell to pastures new in Norfolk and the drum stool was
filled by a character larger than life - Donny Graham.
In 1999 Twister carried on the same busy
workload until Davie (vocals) started hanging around with some punks
called The Jellys (comprising of C.J and
Stidi from The Wildhearts and Jeff
from Wolfsbane). After a few months of contact Davie joined and
waved goodbye to Dumfries, heading South to London to sell millions of
records and taking what seemed like everyone from the small towns hope on
his shoulders at the same time! Several UK Tours followed, many reviews in
Kerrang and Metal Hammer mags and a trip to Japan to play the Rocktober
Festival 2000 on Tokyo Harbour.
Meanwhile Fraser found refuge in The Dali Hammers alongside Dave Bass and
Andy McMillian who was to replace Worm on Bass Guitar in Twister in 2000!!
These lads worked really hard and built up a following in Southern
Scotland and The Lake District area. They recorded and produced their own
album 'Jerry' at their studio in Dumfries and released it on their own
Turtle Records label. A follow up is penned in for release in mid 2003!!!
In 2001, it emerged that The Wildhearts were to reform with Ginger rubbing
shoulders with C.J and Danny McCormack once more and Stidi on the sticks.
This meant The Jellys were on a little holiday so Twister was brought back
from the dead and a new drummer was found in the shape of Sandy Sweetman
to add to the recent addition of Andy on Bass, although the end of the
year saw The Jellys support Silver Ginger 5
on their UK Tour and gave them a chance to dust off those cobwebs once
more.
2003 and this looks like its going to be a good one! Twister are back from
hibernation and everyone is really up for getting new material out there
and a provisional date early in May is penned in for the release of a
debut 3 or 4 track e. p which has been long overdue. T - shirts are also
in the pipeline soon. A good amount of gigs are in the diary already.
Twister intend to be playing at a Venue near you at some point this year -
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