Handsome Beasts

Surely among the Fresh Wave of Uk Large Metal’s most gimmicky acts (together with Ethel the Frog), the sarcastically named Handsome Beasts probably obtained a lot more notoriety within their time due to frontman Garry Dallaway’s enormous girth than their actual music. The previous was needless to say immortalized around the amusing cover picture gracing their 1981 debut recording, Bestiality (having a buck-naked Dallaway along with a perplexed searching pig), as the last mentioned was undoubtedly overshadowed with the band’s self-deprecating antics, rather than did easily fit into completely using the N.W.O.B.H.M. sound, in any case. Formed dating back to 1972 and comprising Dallaway, bassist Steven Hough, drummer Pete Malbasa, and guitarist Phil Aston (among the many that would routine with the group) by 1980, Attractive Beasts had steadily built their popularity by playing night clubs and pubs through the entire United kingdom Midlands; their hard-rocking fare, amusing tune topics, and Dallaway’s effective, soulful voice assisting them become quite the crowd-pleasers. Eager to associate the group using the wildly hyped N.W.O.B.H.M. motion, their management group decided to discovered the ROCK label using the express reason for releasing Attractive Beasts’ initial singles (1980’s “All Riot Today,” 1981’s “Breaker” and “Sweeties”) and finally the aforementioned record, which highlighted guitarist Paul Robins. Bestiality also managed to get onto Kerrang! magazine’s “Best 30 Kuts” graph in early 1982, but quickly faded from view, combined with the music group, as both their administration and ROCK Records thought we would concentrate their attentions on various other up-and-coming acts. Attractive Beasts did keep on, however, splitting up and creating under a number of different lineups well in to the brand-new millennium, launching 1990’s The Beast Within, 2004’s 04, and getting involved in periodic nostalgia travels with various other N.W.O.B.H.M. rings just like the Tygers of Skillet Tang. Unfortunately, vocalist Garry Dallaway experienced a fatal coronary attack on August 20, 2006, however the music group carries on along with his self-appointed successor Simon Hall managing vocals.