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About the Guest Columnists

Glenn Wool

Glenn is a World renowned comedian who began his career in Vancouver, Canada in 1993. Since then he has played every major comedy festival in Europe and is a regular on the UK live comedy circuit including support gigs with the likes of Ed Byrne and nights at the prestigious Comedy Stores in London and Manchester and the Jongleurs Comedy Clubs, and has appeared in several comedy programmes for Channel 4, Paramount Comedy Channel and the BBC.

Favourite band(s): Johnny Cash

Links: MySpace

Ricky Warwick

Ricky is the lead singer of British hard rock band The Almighty, guitarist in Circus Diablo and an accomplished solo artist. With The Almighty Ricky has toured the World several times, both as headliners and supporting bands like Iron Maiden, he’s played several major festivals and released ten albums and 13 singles. As a solo artist he has released two albums and an EP and played several successful tours, most notably supporting Bryan Adams, Def Leppard and Cheap Trick in the USA. With Circus Diablo he has recently completed the recording of their first album alongside guitarist Billy Duffy (The Cult), drummer Matt Sorum (Velvet Revolver) and singer Billy Morrison (Camp Freddy).

Favourite band(s): Stiff Little Fingers, Steve Earle, Motorhead, Bruce Springsteen, AC/DC, MC5, Johnny Cash, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Drive By Truckers, Unsane

Links: Website / MySpace / The Almighty / Circus Diablo / The Almighty @ MySpace / Circus Diablo @ MySpace

Emma Rugg

Emma is a solo singer/songwriter from Hull, England who got herself started with the recording of her first CD by busking on the streets of Hull to raise the money for studio time. Starting her own label, Indreams Records, Emma has recorded and released one album and one EP, plus several collaborations with American singer/songwriter Henry Doss, with whom she recently completed a tour of the US.

Favourite band(s): Boards Of Canada, Johnny Cash, Depeche Mode, Fischerspooner, Foo Fighters, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Guns N’ Roses, Madonna, MC Solaar, Moby, Poloroid, Rufus Wainwright, R.E.M, Velvet Revolver, Zero 7

Links: Website / MySpace

Bumblefoot

An accomplished independent solo artist, experimental and extremely technical guitarist and front-man of his own band, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal is what you might call the complete musician. So much so that he caught the eye of one W. Axl Rose and has recently shot to superstardom as part of the triple-guitar line-up of one of the World’s greatest rock bands, Guns N’ Roses. With seven albums to his name since 1995, not including the forthcoming GN’R opus to which he has contributed, the regular guitar magazine cover artist, complete with his unique custom-made Foot guitar, has had his presence felt everywhere from the spanish guitar on Jessica Simpson’s Irresistible to music for TV shows like The Osbournes, The Real World and Spike TV’s MXC theme song.

Favourite band(s): KISS, Van Halen, The Beatles

Links: Website / MySpace / Guns N’ Roses / Guns N’ Roses @ MySpace / MS Research Foundation

Sheldon Tarsha

Known recently in the rock World as the singer in Steven Adler’s Adler’s Appetite, Sheldon Tarsha has always been a much more accomplished song-writer and performer than Adler’s tribute band really needed. Prior to catching the former Guns N’ Roses drummer’s eye with a live cover of Welcome To The Jungle Tarsha had won Male Vocalist of the Year in a US singing competition, securing himself a performance slot on the nationally syndicated ‘Mark and Brian’ show and enabling him to record an EP which won him seven songwriting awards from Billboard, Independent Music Awards and Song of The Year. His outstanding new album, Prophecies is now out, self-released, as Tarsha continues to fly the flag for independent rock music.

Favourite band(s): AC/DC, Aerosmith, Alice in Chains, The Beatles, The Doors, Guns N Roses, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Van Halen

Links: Website / MySpace