Dave Sharp, co-founder and guitarist of top British rock band The Alarm, launches a new band at the Bobbin, Lancaster in Dec. 2003 after a chance meeting in Lancaster with one of the UK’s finest bass players, Keith Ashcroft (Chris Farlowe, Hamish Stewart).

They're joined by long time associate and master drummer Paul Burgess (10cc, Jethro Tull) to solidify the rhythm section. Ashcroft and Burgess are well known on the NW music scene for their work with Lancaster band Free Parking, and have brought in Carnforth guitarist Moe Witham, whose career includes spells with Micky Jupp and Dr. Feelgood.

Dave left the UK music scene in 1991 and following the trail of American songwriting legend Woody Guthrie he headed to the US in order to grow as a writer and performer. Teaming up with maverick record producer, Bob Johnston, he spent the next few years touring and recording with artists he had long respected and admired, such as Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Larry Crane and Dave Grissolm (The John Cougar Mellencamp band), George Porter (The Neville Brothers), Chris Solberg (Santana).

With two excellently received solo albums and an extensive touring itinerary under his belt, he began to look once again to the British music scene for inspiration. ''I saw fewer and fewer U.K. rock bands able to make a lasting impact on U.S. audiences,'' says Sharp. ''There has got to be a serious British rock band capable of taking on the United States. British rock has lost much credibility Stateside. The future of rock and roll is at stake here,'' he told Virtual-Lancaster, citing corporate mergers and marketing-driven new bands as just part of the problem the British rock scene now faces.