Manchester bred meat ghost. 
I wish I was a robot. 


Black Dynamite was formed from the ashes of other marginally more well-known pop groups of the immediately preceding period. Our journey begins with the demise of oft-regarded noise riffers, The Shadowcops, towards the arse end of 2009. It just so happened that there were many a riff and many a chorus left untainted within that particular arsenal, and so founder members Mike Pollitt and Steven Mackle set about trying to find new ways in which to rob all the best bits from other people’s songs and make them sound like their own.

Numbers were penned and words ascribed and in true Jack and Meg style they soon took their instruments and contemporary brand of melodic rock into the studio. The intention was that with these shiny and polished riff demonstrations all encapsulated on a 5″ piece of polycarbonate, they would recruit a band of rancorous brothers with whom they could mount their rock noise assault on the ears of a general public long-suffering with the strange abundance of mop-topped, skinny-jeaned, indie fashionistas that seemed to rule the roost.

What better man for the job therefore, but long time collaborator and superstar DJ record producer, Mr Timothy Gray, previously of Mancunian reggae-punkers Harijan, and also of MTV mash-up fame? Such was the eminence of the searing melodies transposed against the skilful riff machine that Tim instantly became hooked and by the end of those few heady days became a fully fledged member of the group.

Things were coming together quite nicely, but there was still an oddly shaped hole in the ensemble left to fill. All that was required now was a bass-type tinkerer and so poached from his regular house slot at the Crescent in Salford where he would treat the unsuspecting patrons to his lengthy Jazz odysseys, Mr Nicholas Baguley, of the Nick Baguley Experience, was drafted to plunder the four strings with unrivalled aplomb – and so the line-up was complete!

Having spent a good 18 months or so honing the “sound” and “direction” and other assorted pompous musician-type phrases, the year of our lord two-thousand and eleven saw our heroes venture outward bound into realms of live giggery. The “launch” took place in May in one of Manchester’s premier latrines to a packed out audience who’d definitely all come to see Eureka Machines instead. Nevertheless it was accompanied by a well-presented complimentary demo CD “Mint!!” which was received to significant critical acclaim (from their mams).

So here we are in the present, and so what next for Black Dynamite? Well we’ll keep working away I suppose, trying to make our harmonies sound as much like Queen as our vocal ranges will enable and penning more insatiable and infectious pop-rock creations. Hell, we might even have enough for an album soon! Love us, hate us, just don’t forget us, and we sincerely look forward to meeting you very soon!

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