Terrorvision Tickets

Terrorvision began life in Keighley, Yorkshire, as a band called Masquerade when Shutty, a fan of AC/DC, Black Sabbath and Motorhead had bought his first drum kit by washing cars on Saturday mornings. He managed to recruit Leigh Marklew on guitar and two other school friends from Greenhead Grammar School to join him. It was some time in 1984 that Masquerade performed their first gig in the sixth form common room at that very same school.

Later that year Shutty and his family moved to Bradford where he started work as a printer, while Leigh went off to art college. The band's name changed a number of times with names like 'Strutter' and 'Vietnamese Babies' and they met up eac...

Terrorvision began life in Keighley, Yorkshire, as a band called Masquerade when Shutty, a fan of AC/DC, Black Sabbath and Motorhead had bought his first drum kit by washing cars on Saturday mornings. He managed to recruit Leigh Marklew on guitar and two other school friends from Greenhead Grammar School to join him. It was some time in 1984 that Masquerade performed their first gig in the sixth form common room at that very same school.

Later that year Shutty and his family moved to Bradford where he started work as a printer, while Leigh went off to art college. The band's name changed a number of times with names like 'Strutter' and 'Vietnamese Babies' and they met up each week to practice, playing covers of Joan Jett and Ramones classics.

The first gig they did as Terrorvision happened at the 'Players Snooker Club' in Wakefield, with an audience of about 18 people. The next day they did another gig at the Marquee in London supporting American band Slaughter. Chrysalis Records had organised the Marquee show and Al Rhodes managed to get the label to pay for another demo 'Prime Time TV', again recorded at the Slaughterhouse Studios in August 1990.

Despite increasing success and their highest achieving single to date, Terrorvision were dropped by EMI, making them the biggest unsigned group to play at the Reading and Leeds festivals. That year they also headlined the Kerrang! stage at the 'Big Day Out' at the Milton Keynes Bowl, in which they got into a dressing room brawl with Queens Of The Stone Age. A dust down and cold beer later, the band appeared on stage all dressed as Evel Knievel's. Terrorvision received a fourth Kerrang! award, this time for Best Single.

The year 2000 started off with Terrorvision playing several low-key shows in March, as well as trying for a new record deal which wasn't an easy thing. Record labels openly admitted that they weren't signing rock bands because they could make more money from boy bands and 'real' music came second, as far as they were concerned. Despite this attitude from the record companies, a new deal came for Terrorvision and Total Vegas Recordings with Papillion Records.

They played several shows and festivals over the summer, and began to write songs for their fifth album, the first on the Papillion label. For 'Good To Go' they were due to record with Brad Wood in Chicago. However, they met Neil McClellan and decided to do one track with him, 'D'Ya Wanna Go Faster' - they were so impressed with the track that they abandoned the idea of going to Chicago at all and did the whole album with Neil in November 2000. A 29 -date UK tour followed and took them up to the end of the year. During this time the band appeared on MTV, Scuzz, TOTP and Nevermind The Buzzcocks.

On 15 January 2001, Terrorvision's two-year absence from the charts ended with the single 'D'Ya Wanna Go Faster' reaching the top 20, making it their 13th Top 30 hit. It was accompanied by five more shows and the 'Good to Go' album was released on 5 February the same year. A second single 'Fists Of Fury' followed along with a couple of tours and a sell out gig at London's Astoria which was filmed for a live DVD 'For One Night Only' following the release of the bands greatest hits album 'Whales & Dolphins'.