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?

Then Richie decided he didn’t want to do it any more and left. 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 band was set for the next three years. Then in 2006, Paul was made an offer he couldn’t refuse and left the band to go and play weddings and dinner dances. Naff music but plenty of wedge in his pocket at the end of the night.

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.