Backstreet Symphony - Thunder

Back in the 1980’s, a wonderful band called Terraplane decided to call it a day, after producing a couple of brilliant albums which no-one bought. Fortunately for rock lovers, three of the band, vocalist Danny Bowes, guitarist and main songwriter Luke Morley and drummer ‘Arry “H” James enjoyed making music and each other’s company far too much to let it end there. So they stayed together, started another band, and called themselves Thunder. In August ...
...afterwards, a bassist (Mark Luckhurst) and a guitarist/keyboard player (Ben Matthews) were added, and the recording of one of British rock music’s greatest ever albums started. In February 1990, Thunder burst onto the scene with their first single “Dirty Love”, which was followed in late April 1990 by their debut album, “Backstreet Symphony”. That this album is not owned by everyone in the country is a crime of such great magnitude that it should ...

Soho_Black 07.09.2002 · Read full review
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Thunder was formed in 1989 and consisted of a group of lads from London. They were formally known as Terroplane and although they had released two albums, they had only very limited success. The band started all over in 1989 as Thunder and were enjoying small time success when they was asked to open the Monsters of Rock Festival at Castle Donnington in 1990. What a huge honour this was for a band that had only been together for a year and only had ...
...the first act on stage has a very hard time. Not many people have heard of them and not many people are interested. Thunder burst on the stage and soon many people were asking who they were and that was the turning point for the band. The band back then consisted of Danny Bowes on vocals, Luke Morley on guiter, Harry James (real name Gary!) on drums, Ben Matthews on guiter and keyboard and Snake (real name Mark Lukehurst) on Bass. This bunch of thirty ...

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Back street symphony was the debut album for the brit rock band thunder. They went on to produce many fine albums but nothing really come close to this. This albums contains several rock hyms the title track love walked in - shes so fine along with some of the irreverent fun that made thunder an excellent band to see live - an english man on holiday with the immortal lines "laying down in this spanish bar - the last slammer hit me like a car - I've ...
...my own tatoos - I had a fight with a german guy - I saw him give my little girl the eye - while he was trying to act so cool - I hit him with a stool. The band has unfortunatley gone there seperate ways now and will be missed on the smaller venue rock scene in the UK. ...

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Thunder were undoubtedly one of the best British Rock bands on the scene during the early nineties, and this first offering from the Thunder camp is excellent. The whole album is brilliant - from the wonderful ballad type tracks like "Love Walked in" and "Don't wait for me" to Gimme Some Lovin and Dirty Love. An Englishman on Holiday is brilliant too - a very true song of what Brits are like on holiday - drinking , fighting and falling over! Very ...
...as they were on vinyl (old style records to you younger peeps!) Danny Bowers has a powerful voice that can easily do justice to ballads or rock-your-socks-off tracks, and the guitar work of Luke Morely, whilst not the best in the world, is certainly deservy of credit. A brilliant band, an excellent album and the best live shows I've seen as far as atmosphere and quality go. They will be sadly missed. ...

Biffa 21.09.2000 · Read full review
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I'm a person that LOVES vocalists with amazingly powerful voices, and Danny Bowes has just that. From the remnants of Terraplane, Thunder came along and blew everyone away. The screamish, deep vocals and the heavy guitar are something that set Thunder apart from other bands. This has to be my favourite album from them because I love every single song on the album, and that really doesn't happen often. Firstly, 'She's So Fine' comes on and it is definately ...
...great guitar opening and then you're hit with the insane vocals. 'Dirty Love' appears after this and has to be my favourite, it has a line-dancing kind of beat to it which would normally put me off, but this just makes it easier to get in to. The ballad of the album has to be, 'Don't Wait For Me' it's a powerful ballad that adds a different tone to the album. 'Backstreet Symphony' is definately a great track, really keeps the high standard of work ...

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