rock stars who went back work.

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.

One thing I always wonder -- how do those mid-level indie bands survive? They're big enough that they tour frequently, hence they probably don't have a full-time job. But they also can't be making much from music.
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, February 1, 2005 11:56 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Friend who's a frequently touring indie/noise dude mostly works in call centres. Sometimes stuff like being a reader for audiobooks. Occasionally gets a grant. I think the temp/gig economy is fairly conducive to this lifestyle, actually.

not exactly a "rock star" but the recent shirley collins doc has a bit about her day job drudgery after she lost her voice in the late 1970s. lame!
also was surprised to learn in a recent podcast that sleater kinney's corin tucker does web development on the side ...

I know people who were in Soul Asylum & the Jayhawks who eventually had to return to bar tending for cash flow during lean post-fame yrs

Neither of these people were the front men btw

yeah, i can only imagine being the bass player in a somewhat successful band is a losing game in the end.

They were both bass players!

RIP Karl Mueller, the sweetest man in rock.

yeah even in a good year, if you aren't writing songs, you probably only make like a decent middle class wage (but receive all the adulation that a bass player gets)

OTM

i had a conversation with an aging musician recently and he was like "so i hear you can make pretty good money with ... computers?"

The guy from Creeper Lagoon started a rental company renting vans to...touring musicians.

He was recently in the local press because of an escapade recovering a stolen van:

https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Twitter-tale-of-SF-van-theft-gets-elected-12620936.php?t=91b84c280c

Perhacs returned to dentistry for many years before making another record

Vito Bratta of White Lion, though it's not entirely clear what he does other than having obtained a real estate brokerage license at some point