The Wildhearts were great, weren't they? Every lineup cranked out banger after banger, then they'd split up violently and turn up a few years later with another slab of pop-rock classics. But what did the lads do, while their main band was in a state of flux?
Rich, their drummer, done this, once. 23 years ago, he formed an electro/hip-hop/rock mashup named Grand Theft Audio, who for a brief time were MASSIVE. We're talking movie and video game soundtracks (they were on a Gran Turismo game, but never a GTA, sadly), legendary tours playing to thousands of people... they were about to find themselves on top of the world.
Then their record label imploded, and they all had to move back to Shields.
Honestly, these guys should have been bigger than the Transplants, the other rock/hip-hop collective formed by a famous drummer around the time. But, as the Wildhearts always said, 'if we'd made a million, we'd have spent a million on heroin'. And while I like my rock stars to be, you know, rock stars, I'd rather not see them die.
Anyway, turn this RIGHT up, it's a great record.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4aJbv37SMTGog4Xl4tho4q?si=8eVFrXUrQYatQCKjzCUEKw