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Homegrown Studios (Tel/Fax: 01324 562897) is a recording studio found in the rural setting of Todhill Farm, near Larbert and Falkirk in central Scotland. The studio provides a relaxed, naturally lit environment for all types of artists. At Homegrown they can provide CD replication & mastering services (Fully PQ coded quality CD-Rs for short runs, artwork & designs for CD covers, websites for bands (biography, songs converted to mp3 format, pages promoted on major search engines, domain name), free & safe parking.

The Bunker is run by Homegrown Productions recording studio, and offers two good-sized rooms, kitted out with quality gear (Guitar amps and cabs by Marshall, bass amps by Ashdown, Premier drumkits, Shure SM58 mics through Wharfdale and Peavey PA systems. Prices are £8 per hour, and information can be obtained on 01324 815982.

Black Velvet is a quarterly independent rock magazine based in the UK. The zine originated in 1994 and is published/edited by Shari Black Velvet. The zine includes in-depth interviews, CD, concert and zine reviews and more. Black Velvet began as a photocopied black and white fanzine in 1994. Its first colour cover was of Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) on issue 23. The zine added colour centre pages to mark its ten year anniversary and went full colour to celebrate reaching issue 50 in 2006. Black Velvet is available in a number of independent shops in the UK, USA and online, and via mail order.

Bubblegum Slut is a fanzine covering mainly Glam/ Sleaze/ Punk/ Rock'n'roll and Goth/Industrial bands, based in Essex, England. Recently named as among the top 5 music fanzines in the UK by publishing group E-map, as their annual Fanzine Awards, it is also the only fanzine to include a sexy, smooth, fluffy, strokeable, soft fake fur cover every issue for your pleasure. Promoting local and smaller bands as well as covering bigger names.The zine is printed 4 or 5 times a year and has a strong, ever increasing circulation. Bubblegum Slut also releases sampler CDs and in the past the zine and CDs have had favourable reviews in Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Bizarre, The Fly, Big Cheese and Black Velvet mags.

The world's biggest alternative culture magazine... Sideshows, kinks, gothic lolita, sideburns, carnies, tattoos, burlesque, furries, Suicide Girls, zombies, fetishes of every description, hotrods, body modification, fire-eating, circuses, true-crime, Animal Crossing, pirates, werewolves, sci-fi, S+M, magic, magick, monsters, aliens, robots, sequins, searching for gateways to hell

All the latest heavy metal / hard rock news and reviews, updated daily.

Metal Sludge is a glam metal, hard rock and heavy metal website first founded in 1998. It is one of the most popular in its field for hard rock musicians and has spawned various tours (known as Metal Sludge Extravaganzas) as well as an album. Male fans of the website are referred to as Sludgeaholics, while female equivalents are known as Sludgettes.

Enuff Z'Nuff is an American rock band from Blue Island, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), founded by Donnie Vie (vocals, guitar & keyboards) and Chip Z'nuff (bass & vocals). Their main influences include Cheap Trick, Off Broadway, Pezband, The Raspberries, Badfinger, Elvis Costello, Queen, and The Beatles.

The Quireboys are a hard rock band formed during 1984, in London, England with strong ties to Newcastle.[1] When the band formed they were originally known as The Queerboys[2] and in the United States they have been known as the London Quireboys throughout their entire career.

The band were successful during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their debut album "A Bit of What You Fancy" reaching #2 on the UK charts. Their highest charting single for the band was with the song "Hey You", it reached #14.

Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction play an ultra-sleazy style of commercial hard rock featuring big riffs and choruses, as was the trend in the band’s heyday of the mid-to-late 80s and early 90s. The outrageously camp lyrics are intended as self-parody, and can be seen as either humorous by those who "get the joke", or offensive by those who take them at face value, for their often lascivious and misogynist tone. Song titles like "Back Seat Education", "Feed My Frankenstein", "High Heeled Heaven", and "Trash Madonna" illustrate Mindwarp's tongue-in-cheek approach. Lyrical content also exhibits a send up of cult worship, often of Zodiac Mindwarp's self-proclaimed raging libido, with the frontman claiming the titles, sex fuhrer, love dictator, and high priest of love. Songs such as "Holy Gasoline", "President of the United States of Love", "Messianic Reprise", and "Elvis Died for You" are similarly inclined.

In 1972, Harvey formed the Sensational Alex Harvey Band with guitarist Zal Cleminson, bassist Chris Glen, and cousins Ted and Hugh McKenna on drums and keyboards respectively, all previous members of progressive rock act "Tear Gas".

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (often shortened to SAHB) produced a succession of highly regarded albums and tours throughout the 1970s, and would give Harvey his greatest successes, both musically and commercially.

Initially considered a part of the burgeoning glam-rock movement, Harvey's wild imagination and unusual skiffle background led the band to explore an extremely diverse range of topics and styles in the course of their career, from film-noir ("The Man In The Jar") to surf music-tinted tales of shark attacks ("Shark's Teeth") to ominous odes to demented faith healers ("The Faith Healer") and epic symphonies about witchcraft ("Isobel Gowdie").

The band had hits in Britain with the single Delilah, a re-make of the Tom Jones hit, which reached No 7 in 1975, and also with "The Boston Tea Party".

Friends
Homegrown Studios		The Bunker
	Homegrown Studios (Tel/Fax: 01324 562897) is a recording studio found in the rural setting of Todhill Farm, near Larbert and Falkirk in central Scotland. The studio provides a relaxed, naturally lit environment for all types of artists. At Homegrown they can provide CD replication & mastering services (Fully PQ coded quality CD-Rs for short runs, artwork & designs for CD covers, websites for bands (biography, songs converted to mp3 format, pages promoted on major search engines, domain name), free & safe parking.		The Bunker is run by Homegrown Productions recording studio, and offers two good-sized rooms, kitted out with quality gear (Guitar amps and cabs by Marshall, bass amps by Ashdown, Premier drumkits, Shure SM58 mics through Wharfdale and Peavey PA systems. Prices are £8 per hour, and information can be obtained on 01324 815982.
Urban Studios		dD Drums
	Professional Rehearsal Rooms , State Of The Art Recording, 2 Studio Complexes in Glasgow, Marshall,Line6,Hiwatt,Mackie, Ampeg,Ashdown,Pearl,Zildjian, Great Rates / Friendly Service		Falkirk's first custom drum rehearsal / tuition studio has been opened by David Dowell. Situated in Ladysmill Industrial Estate ("the slaughterhouse" for older readers, "next to the skate park" for younger ones), Dowell offers lessons from beginners to experts, including official SQA qualifications up to Advanced Higher. For more information, phone David on 07949969934.

Magazines
Black Velvet 'zine		Bubblegum Slut 'zine
	Black Velvet is a quarterly independent rock magazine based in the UK. The zine originated in 1994 and is published/edited by Shari Black Velvet. The zine includes in-depth interviews, CD, concert and zine reviews and more. Black Velvet began as a photocopied black and white fanzine in 1994. Its first colour cover was of Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) on issue 23. The zine added colour centre pages to mark its ten year anniversary and went full colour to celebrate reaching issue 50 in 2006. Black Velvet is available in a number of independent shops in the UK, USA and online, and via mail order.		Bubblegum Slut is a fanzine covering mainly Glam/ Sleaze/ Punk/ Rock'n'roll and Goth/Industrial bands, based in Essex, England. Recently named as among the top 5 music fanzines in the UK by publishing group E-map, as their annual Fanzine Awards, it is also the only fanzine to include a sexy, smooth, fluffy, strokeable, soft fake fur cover every issue for your pleasure. Promoting local and smaller bands as well as covering bigger names.The zine is printed 4 or 5 times a year and has a strong, ever increasing circulation. Bubblegum Slut also releases sampler CDs and in the past the zine and CDs have had favourable reviews in Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Bizarre, The Fly, Big Cheese and Black Velvet mags.
Trash Pit 'zine		Devolution Magazine
	TRASHPIT Magazine is a UK produced FANZINE dedicated to promoting bands from the Hard Rock, Glam and Power Pop Genres. As long as it's cool and delivers BIG hooks with BIG guitars then it can be found in the pages of TRASHPIT!! As a sideline, Thunder remembers Trashpit magazine from his days of representing Ky Anto and his band the Sassy Scarlet Show. "This guy is a true rock and roller, support him all you can!!!"		Devolution Magazine is a non-profit-making printed zine based in Oxford, UK that has a strong focus on promoting alternative music, art, fashion and lifestyle features. They print on a quarterly basis and aim to get issues out every February, May, August and November. They focus on metal, rock, Goth, punk, Ska, glam and rockabilly music. The magazine has been running for three years and hahas included interviews with some of the biggest bands in the world as well as up and coming bands that aren’t even signed. If they like you – then they’ll do their best to promote you to their readers. The Deadly’s Love ‘em….
Classic Rock Magazine		Bizarre Magazine
	The finest rock magazine on the planet. Believe it!		The world's biggest alternative culture magazine... Sideshows, kinks, gothic lolita, sideburns, carnies, tattoos, burlesque, furries, Suicide Girls, zombies, fetishes of every description, hotrods, body modification, fire-eating, circuses, true-crime, Animal Crossing, pirates, werewolves, sci-fi, S+M, magic, magick, monsters, aliens, robots, sequins, searching for gateways to hell

Websites
Blabbermouth		Metal Sludge
	All the latest heavy metal / hard rock news and reviews, updated daily.		Metal Sludge is a glam metal, hard rock and heavy metal website first founded in 1998. It is one of the most popular in its field for hard rock musicians and has spawned various tours (known as Metal Sludge Extravaganzas) as well as an album. Male fans of the website are referred to as Sludgeaholics, while female equivalents are known as Sludgettes.
Sleazegrinder		Rock Confidential
	Sleazegrinder is a portal of the purest of rock and roll at itâs soaring best and crashing, burning worst; a refuge for rogues, scoundrels, visionaries, ...		The ultimate combination of rock n roll and porn stars featuring interviews and free photo galleries! Rock Confidential is porn to rock!

Bands
Enuff Z'Nuff		Quireboys
	Enuff Z'Nuff is an American rock band from Blue Island, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), founded by Donnie Vie (vocals, guitar & keyboards) and Chip Z'nuff (bass & vocals). Their main influences include Cheap Trick, Off Broadway, Pezband, The Raspberries, Badfinger, Elvis Costello, Queen, and The Beatles.		The Quireboys are a hard rock band formed during 1984, in London, England with strong ties to Newcastle.[1] When the band formed they were originally known as The Queerboys[2] and in the United States they have been known as the London Quireboys throughout their entire career. The band were successful during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their debut album "A Bit of What You Fancy" reaching #2 on the UK charts. Their highest charting single for the band was with the song "Hey You", it reached #14.
The Dogs D'Amour		The Wildhearts
	The Dogs D'Amour are a rock band formed during 1983 in London, England. Over the years the band have had various different line-ups, the longest serving band member is vocalist Tyla, followed by original drummer Bam. The band found a measure of success in the United Kingdom during the latter part of the 1980s and the early 1990s. In terms of chart positions, their highest charting album was their 1989 effort "A Graveyard of Empty Bottles" which reached #16 on the UK chart. Their most successful single was "Satellite Kid" which reached #26.		The Wildhearts are a rock group from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The band's sound is a mixture of hard rock and melodic pop music. When the band released their first EP Mondo Akimbo a-Go-Go they were touted in the music press as combining influences as diverse as The Beatles and 1980s-era Metallica although this was refuted by the band who saw their influences as being far broader, as shown in the song "29 X The Pain" which lists many of singer Ginger's influences. The Wildhearts were hugely influential in the British rock music scene in the mid-1990s, although they didn't achieve major commercial success, owing in part to the indifference of radio stations and the mainstream music press, and also many internal problems often relating to recreational drugs and depression.
Zodiac Mindwarp		Sensational Alex Harvy Band
	Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction play an ultra-sleazy style of commercial hard rock featuring big riffs and choruses, as was the trend in the band’s heyday of the mid-to-late 80s and early 90s. The outrageously camp lyrics are intended as self-parody, and can be seen as either humorous by those who "get the joke", or offensive by those who take them at face value, for their often lascivious and misogynist tone. Song titles like "Back Seat Education", "Feed My Frankenstein", "High Heeled Heaven", and "Trash Madonna" illustrate Mindwarp's tongue-in-cheek approach. Lyrical content also exhibits a send up of cult worship, often of Zodiac Mindwarp's self-proclaimed raging libido, with the frontman claiming the titles, sex fuhrer, love dictator, and high priest of love. Songs such as "Holy Gasoline", "President of the United States of Love", "Messianic Reprise", and "Elvis Died for You" are similarly inclined.		In 1972, Harvey formed the Sensational Alex Harvey Band with guitarist Zal Cleminson, bassist Chris Glen, and cousins Ted and Hugh McKenna on drums and keyboards respectively, all previous members of progressive rock act "Tear Gas". The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (often shortened to SAHB) produced a succession of highly regarded albums and tours throughout the 1970s, and would give Harvey his greatest successes, both musically and commercially. Initially considered a part of the burgeoning glam-rock movement, Harvey's wild imagination and unusual skiffle background led the band to explore an extremely diverse range of topics and styles in the course of their career, from film-noir ("The Man In The Jar") to surf music-tinted tales of shark attacks ("Shark's Teeth") to ominous odes to demented faith healers ("The Faith Healer") and epic symphonies about witchcraft ("Isobel Gowdie"). The band had hits in Britain with the single Delilah, a re-make of the Tom Jones hit, which reached No 7 in 1975, and also with "The Boston Tea Party".