There will be some new faces at the next one. We haven't raised as much money through the gig as we had hoped because of the costs of staging the event but we are about to put out a DVD of the gig which should add much more to the charity funds raised. We should be in a position to make an announcement on the profits quite soon.
"Andrew Michael Rourke" is an English musician, best known as the bassist for the Smiths, an English Rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. The band consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce (musician)/Mike Joyce.
Critics have called them the most important alternative rock band to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s. Q magazine/Q magazine's Simon Goddard argued in 2007 that the Smiths were "the one truly vital voice of the '80s", "the most influential British guitar group of the decade" and the "first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms".
The NME named the Smiths the "most influential artist ever" in a 2002 poll, even topping the Beatles.
The Smiths had several singles reach the UK top twenty and all four of their albums reached the UK top five, including one which topped the charts. The band broke up in 1987 and have turned down several offers to reunite. The band's focus on a guitar, bass and drum sound, and their fusion of 1960s rock and post-punk, were a repudiation of synthesiser-based contemporary dance pop – the style popular in the early 1980s.
More Andy Rourke on Wikipedia.We've talked about it. It's still early days but we want to get out and play live and get some product out - who knows, we may even release it on our own label.
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