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Kick Asteroid
7+ albums
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Kick Asteroid were an indy/alternative beat combo who enjoyed a modicum of local success on the London circuit at the onset of the 1990's The band consisted of Andy Moloney(bass/vocals from Rhondda) Andy Meakin((drums/vocals from Polesworth) Tony Ware(lead guitar from Ewell) and Paul Mabe(rythym guitar from Wimbledon) They were painfully loud live (and in rehearsal) In the summer of 1991 Andy Meakin and Andy Moloney decided to start a new project to run alongside their then band Better Than You. Initial experiments with former Loved Ones vocalist Steve Wilde and Beautiful guitartist Paul Ryan failed to result in anything substantial, forcing them to prolong their involvement with Better Than You. At the time the two shared a flat in the salubrious London suburb of Tooting, with Paul Mabe, the rythym guitarist of Wimbledon glampunk rockers Beautiful. In January of that year the drummer from Beautiful, Ray Jordan, had debuted on the skins for Surbiton neo-punk band Ruptured Dog, and it became increasingly obvious that Beautiful was approaching the end of its shelf life. Paul therefore was quite receptive to the idea of working with Meakin and Moloney. However he made it clear he was not going to play lead. That led to the introduction through Doug E Dogg (Ruptured Dog), of Ewell guitarist Tony Ware. Ware met with Moloney and Mabe on September 26th 1991 at Freeways club in Wandsworth, South West London, and agreed to attend a rehearsal with the errant drummer, Meakin, t
