Bands

Shattered

In the beginning, there was a two piece band called Ruff As Guts formed by Shag and a drummer called Richie. Anyway, after a while they needed a bass player, so Snails joined. They gigged for a while then decided they needed another guitarist, so Chris joined. At this point they decided that the band sounded just a bit different than it did before, so they all tried to come up with a new name. Shag said Shattered? and everyone agreed they were. That was it. Shattered? was born. Otherwise the band might have been called Knackered? and that doesn’t work so well on a poster, does it?

The question mark is supposed to be there, but these days it’s pretty much optional. They won’t get upset if you forget it.

Then Richie decided he didn’t want to do it any more and left. Can’t blame him really, would you want to be associated with blokes called Shag, Snails and Chris?

They looked around for various other drummers, auditioned a few, didn’t really find anyone who fitted in with the band. Then Shag remembered that he once nearly had a fight with a drummer in a pub in Woodbridge. “Sounds like an ideal bloke”, they thought.

To cut a long story short, they asked Paul to come along and jam with them. He did, they liked him, he liked them and the rest is history. The main reason they like Paul is that he is younger than the rest of them and that makes the average age of the band look a whole lot better. They have no idea why Paul likes the rest of them, other than he is a drummer. Say no more.

The band has since gone from strength to strength, knee to knee and Sudbury. It sometimes all seems to make a horrible kind of sense, too (usually when they sober up). As usual with local bands, everybody knows or has played in bands with each other more times than they care to remember.