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Sweet Addiction
12+ albums
hard rockrockuk rock
about
The SWEET ADDICTION story began in 1986 after singer Matt Wolff and guitarist Dave Airey had met at school and spent a couple of years writing songs. Together with drummer Gavin Hardman they had all been in various local Manchester bands, and started jamming. The songs were good, but money was tight and Matt took up the offer of a job in Brighton. Dave decided that without Matt's great voice there would be no show, so after a couple of months he drove down to see him determined to get him back into music. Matt was already fed up and longing for Manchester. He sang well with Dave and they hatched a plan to form a band that might just have a chance of getting drunk for free. Back in Manchester Matt & Dave started writing songs with Gav, who brought along a friend to play bass - Russell 'Joe' Johnson. The rehearsals were electric, and SWEET ADDICTION were born. The music was raw, powerful blues rock. As part of their first UK tour to promote 'Mayfair', the Quireboys were playing Monroes, a glitzy dive in Stockport - a local gig for the Sweets. Pitching themselves as support, the band were convinced the Quireboys would like what they heard and put in a good word with their label, Survival. They were right, and Quireboys frontman Spike invited them down to London to play Gossips, a notorious psychedelic bar left over from the 60's, and smack bang in the middle of Soho. The gig was packed. The rock press had started picking up on SWEET ADDICTION and reviews were positive.
