User:Gregory mccleary

Gregory McCleary is a founding member of the band Festering Blister. Gregory McCleary is the stage name of Matt Hawthorne. Gregory McCleary is the name of a character from the Bandor Corporation role-playing events.

Festering Blister was a hardcore rock band started in 1985 in North St. Paul, Minnesota as a reaction to the disco-pop and hairbands that were dominating music. The original members of the band were George McCleary, his younger twin brothers Gregory and Jonathan, and Steve Crotchity. Despite the fact that the band was just playing to pick up groupies and free booze they enjoyed moderate commercial success in Eastern Europe and Japan. Their complete lack of style and hardcore drinking made them a cult favorite in the gothic subculture of the early 90s. Ironically their biggest show was their last when they incited an already volatile crowd to riot during the Edinborough Soccer Rock Festival '94. After playing four songs lead singer/guitarist Gregory McCleary crawled off the stage. Too drunk to continue he told the crowd, "If you want us to play one more song, prove it! Light the toilets on fire, bum rush the police, and break anything you can get your hands on!" The prison sentences against the band were suspended on the condition that all four of them never play together again.

After Edinborough the band was done. One of the hardest rocking and drinking bands that managed to survive the devastation brought on by Nirvana was no more.