Goldblade are a English punk rock band from Manchester, England. The band formed in early 1995 when ex Membranes frontman, John Robb, put the band together with Wayne Simmons and former A Witness vocalist Keith Curtis on bass, Rob Haynes on drums and Jay Taylor on guitar. The band signed to Ultimate Records and released their first single, "Soul Power", before releasing several more singles and two albums - Home Turf (1996/97), and Goldblade Drop the Bomb (1998) before Simmons departed.

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  • Goldblade are a English punk rock band from Manchester, England. The band formed in early 1995 when ex Membranes frontman, John Robb, put the band together with Wayne Simmons and former A Witness vocalist Keith Curtis on bass, Rob Haynes on drums and Jay Taylor on guitar. The band signed to Ultimate Records and released their first single, "Soul Power", before releasing several more singles and two albums - Home Turf (1996/97), and Goldblade Drop the Bomb (1998) before Simmons departed. In 2000, Goldblade then recruited a new percussionist, Martin Gray, into the line up and recorded two further singles "AC/DC" and "Who Was The Killa?" together with a third album Do You Believe In The Power Of Rock 'n' Roll all released in 2002 on a new label, Twenty Stone Blatt. In 2001, Jay Taylor left the band to concentrate on his Bonebox project, and two new members Johny Skullknuckles and Pete 'Gorgeous' Byrchmore were recruited to begin work on the next album, Rebel Songs (2004). Second percussionist Gray left shortly after the recording sessions, and the album was released in 2005 on the Captain Oi! label. The band continued gigging and recording as a five-piece, with the next album Mutiny (also Captain Oi! Records) released in 2008. Both "Rebel Songs" and "Mutiny" were also issued internationally - Rebel Songs being released in both the United States (Anarchy Music) and Germany (KB-Records), Mutiny was also released in Germany (KB-Records) as a limited edition white vinyl. Goldblade continue to tour extensively across the UK, Europe and beyond. They regularly appear at all the major UK music festivals, including Glastonbury, Reading, Wickerman, Rebellion etc. , and several smaller ones (Strummercamp), and have also appeared in Russia, where a crowd of 25,000 greeted them in St Petersburg. They have also played in Serbia and, in early 2010, played in Algiers, being one of only a handful of western bands to do so. In March 2010, Skullknuckles departed to be replaced by another guitarist Andy Taylor (not the one from Duran Duran). Goldblade issued a compilation album, Beyond God & Elvis in China (Kids-Union Records) in September 2010, with dates in Beijing set to follow.
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  • Goldblade are a English punk rock band from Manchester, England. The band formed in early 1995 when ex Membranes frontman, John Robb, put the band together with Wayne Simmons and former A Witness vocalist Keith Curtis on bass, Rob Haynes on drums and Jay Taylor on guitar. The band signed to Ultimate Records and released their first single, "Soul Power", before releasing several more singles and two albums - Home Turf (1996/97), and Goldblade Drop the Bomb (1998) before Simmons departed.
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