rock stars who went back work.

bit of a shocker for any Gene fans, two up from the bottom
http://www.talentmark.com/people/

i mean good luck to him and everything but :/

I like to think voluntarily working with Martin Rossiter in any capacity would eventually drive someone to the relative sanity of business recruiting.

I have this feeling there's more money in it than there ever was in Gene.

xp was he a bit of a pain to work for/with? i can kinda see that. i know he had his issues over the years.

Bruce Springsteen is my dustman

Guy Chadwick = a plasterer now in London, according to a guy calling in on the Danny Baker radio show.

Post 60s hits and pre-Rounder Records comeback, Irma Thomas worked in Montgomery Ward's lingerie and automotive departments to support her four children while singing in San Francisco clubs on weekends.

already mentioned, but the story of Dave Gregory and Colin Moulding renting out cars for $$$ after Oranges and Lemons is really weird

I also heard that Jim Smith (bassist of Cardiacs) works regularly as a refrigerator repairman. And that (the former) Sarah Smith now has an office job somewhere

Stretching the bounds of "Rock Star" here but noticed this story about Helen Reddy who left music to pursue a degree in hypnotherapy.

Guy Garvey is also a DJ which helps get his band A-listed on 6Music

Nasty Suicide, the original guitarist from Hanoi Rocks, got a degree and now works as a pharmacist.

Under his real name, obviously.

with a name like that, why would he want to change it?

Drummer from Lemonheads is a lawyer

Luke Wood who used to play in Sammy is the boss of Spotify now

What's David Berman been up to lately?

somewhat relevant

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/our-favourite-bands-and-their-day-jobs?utm_source=vicefbuk

however, 'loads of huge uk rock bands' is stretching it ..

I came on to post that article!

But yeah, I hadn't actually heard of any of those bands before I read it.

most of them have played near my house in the last 6 months.

mind you, i'm struggling to think of any huge uk rock bands right now.

xp

Google says that rather than being CEO of Spotify, Luke Wood from Sammy is the President of Beats (by Dre etc). Also apparently "While Wood was at Geffen in 1994, the company posted the first commercial MP3 file".

I used to love Tales of Great Neck Glory but if you told a teenage me that one of the guys would be in charge of a multi-billion dollar company I'd have called you mad. They only just sound like they are in charge of their instruments on that album.

with the exception of Deaf Havana, who I assume no-one here gives a fuck about but play 1500-cap venues in the UK, the examples in that article are pretty badly chosen as I doubt most of them would have scraped a living from their band even in, idk, 1997

The Scrape A Living Years

mind you, i'm struggling to think of any huge uk rock bands right now.

― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin)

Oh come on now.

you know though, these are bands playing a very competent brand of popular rock. I mean, stuff like Gnarwolves, God Damn, Wytches have all been featured highly on 6Music. Heart of a Coward are from my neck of the woods. Not my cup of cha, necessarily, but they do the post-hardcore/metalcore thing extremely well, and that's a very very popular style of music.

xpost Biffy Clyro. That's the only one I can think of.

Muse?

Coldplay. Radiohead.

Mumford and Sons?

those aren't rock bands, don't be silly.

/jks

Rolling Stones are still around, are they not?

srsly though, do people still listen to muse?

can anyone name a successful ROCK band (and i mean rock, not Mumfords) band from the UK who materialised after, say, 2010?

I taught a class of teenaged Italians over the summer and they were all absolutely nuts about Muse.

can anyone name a successful ROCK band (and i mean rock, not Mumfords) band from the UK who materialised after, say, 2010?

― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin)

Well four years isn't that much time to achieve the kind of mega-success I assume you're talking about.

Royal Blood?

they were mentioned in the article.

i've never heard them? i hear they're big though.

Runhild Gammelsæter is a biologist and has a phd in cell physiology.

srsly though, do people still listen to muse?

I can understand nobody with functioning ears is particularly excited about bands like Bring Me The Horizon and Asking Alexandria, but they do make album chart topping records.

Robbie Crane of Ratt worked in a really nice Cajun/Creole restaurant in West Chester, PA.

why is Morrissey so concerned about whether Robbie Crane knows his face or not? Always confused me.

dave smythe, former bassist of the rezillos, is an anti-fracking activist recently accused of falsely claiming to be a chartered geologist

James Endeacott of Loop has been an A&R guy for Rough Trade for awhile now. Think he's responsible for signing The Libertines.

Nigel Twist of The Alarm works in the SF public defender's office.

Julie Ritter of Mary's Danish is a real estate agent.

Wonder what Nash Kato does all day.

what the hell is evan dando doing

Dando still tours as The Lemonheads--he was just in town opening for The Psychedelic Furs.

It looks like Amelia Fletcher (lead singer of Talula Gosh / Heavenly / Marine Research) has left her job as Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading to be Professor of Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia - http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2013/January/amelia-fletcher-competition-policy-oft

Excellent!

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2016/06/when-im-not-cleaning-windows-joy-being-part-time-band

Fred Neil, writer of "Everybody's Talkin'", sang "I've been searching for the dolphins in the sea", then set up the Dolphin Research Project and more or less retired from music.