SHINE / SHYNE

BIOGRAPHY:

Shine were formed by Colin Taylor (drums), Ross Fairweather (guitar) & Kenny Cassells (vocals / guitar) at the start of 1997 from the remains of a band called Open Minded, along with Ali Merrick (bass). After several months rehearsal, they began playing live locally, and recorded a demo entitled "Guitars, Cars & Movie Stars" at Pound Studios. The weakness of the vocals encouraged them to recruit Chris Marshall as a frontman, however by the end of the year Merrick & Taylor had quit the band, with Merrick turning up in FEed and Taylor later going solo. They were replaced at the start of 1998 by Liam Docherty (bass) & Craig Scott (drums), and the new line-up began a monthly residency at Finn MacCools in Falkirk. In Autumn 1998 Docherty was replaced by Craig Rankin (bass), and a new demo, "On", was recorded in March 1999 by Cameron Nisbet. This led to an acoustic session on Central FM, after which Fairweather quit the band, later forming Mr Nice. In October Shine split, with Cassells, Rankin & Scott forming One Luv.
By the end of the year the three had reverted to the name Shine, with a new bass player Dave Watson, and recorded their next single, "Northern Pop Song". Almost immediately Cassells left the band, unhappy with their workrate, and formed LOCOsea. Soon afterwards they split before the single was could be released.
Sometimes the band were called Shyne.

RELEASES:

"Guitars, Cars & Movie Stars" (cassette single, 1997)
"On" (cassette single, 1999)

WEBSITE:

http://www.angelfire.com/sc/shine