User:Ashkari

The brainchild of it's founder member, Ashkari was evolved from Davii Adams former group, Envy, despite creating acclaimed tracks such as "Everything", suffered a lack of commitment from other band members, more interested in family life. A chance encounter between guitarist Jamie Mulroue and Davii started the ground work of the emerging Ashkari, with the pair searching for a vocalist.

In the meantime, Davii and Jamie met up with Craig Leach, a bass player/songwriter and begun working on material (with Craig providing some guide vocals) whilst looking for vocals and drums. Moving rehearsals to Soho, London in a bid to attract more than just the local talent, the fledgeling group began setting up auditions and sifting through tracks.

Enter stage left...Jack Palmer, frontman. Jack's voice and attitude have added weight, power and prescence to the center stage...and he loves it. His energetic style compliments well with Jamie and Davii's more laid back prescence, along with Craig's more introspective image.

Unfortunately, Jamie has had to focus on family, heading back to the south coast and we wish him and his new band Lonesome Wolf all the best.

With Jamie's departure, the guys focused on looking for a drummer, finding Gavin Shirley as the noisey skins bashing animal to bring the full-on heavy backbeat the band needed. One audition and a few beers later and 4/5 of the band was complete. The four could now begin looking seriously at material, whilst hunting down a second guitarist, piecing together new material as well as tracks such as Crazy that had already gained the public's attention.

As good as the artistic development was, finding the missing guitarist was proving a lengthy and difficult exercise, with many laughable auditionees. Tales of woefull applicants still raise smiles, but the frustration of it all left the band unsure of where to go next, even considering whether a second guitarist was really as necessary as they felt it was. Thankfully, a last ditch effort solved the missing piece to the puzzle...

Kai Young, coming across Jack's rather to-the-point online campaign for a rhythm guitarist arrived at The Joint studios, to a band hungry to move things forward. It didn't take long, within the opening few bars running through Crazy, it was obvious the missing piece was no longer missing. Kai fits the bill perfectly - gelling Gavin and Craig's rhythm section, whilst providing the guitar textures of the core sound behind Davii and Jack's lead.

Now all there is to do, is to produce a set worthy of Ashkari, amid offers to play major venues already - it would appear that the public are just as hungry to see and hear Ashkari as the band itself...