Tag Archives: It Bites

Produced in 1981, this Detroit group contains vocalist Michael Persh, with Davey Holmbo, Greg Apro, and Richie Lovsin. Their best-known melody was the minimal hit “Common Surface.”

A British music group with blues and metallic aspirations, but also a solid art rock and roll tendency (thanks partly to maker Steve Hillage), It Bites were formed in the mid-’80s by vocalist and guitarist Francis Dunnery, bassist Dick Nolan, drummer Bob Dalton, and key pad participant John Beck. The …

Stiltskin was a brief lived grunge rock and roll quartet that lasted for only an individual recording, 1994’s The Mind’s Attention. Although they stay virtual unknowns within the U.S., the group obtained a big strike within the U.K. using the monitor “Inside” (utilized at that time in a industrial for …

The onetime frontman from the progressive rock group It Bites, singer/songwriter Francis Dunnery was created on Christmas Day, 1962 in Egremont, Cumbria, U.K. His tenure with It Bites started in 1984, and after three LPs concluded in 1990; throughout that period Dunnery created the Tapboard, a distinctive guitar-like instrument installed …

Born Apr 25, 1958, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Derek William Dick (aka Seafood) was the dramatic lead vocalist for prog rock-band Marillion until starting a solo job in 1988. Marillion was created as an instrumental music group in 1979 by guitarist Steve Rothery (b. November 25, 1959; Brampton, Britain), drummer Mick …