Bush (band)

Categories: British musical groups | Post-grunge groups

Bush was a British post-grunge band formed in 1991. Their debut was a self-released album named Sixteen Stone; it was released in 1994.

The name Bush came about because they used to live in Shepherd's Bush, London. In Canada, they were once known as BushX, because the 1970s band Bush, led by Domenic Troiano, owned the Canadian rights to the name. In April 1997, it was announced that Troiano had agreed to let them use the name Bush in Canada without the letter X, in exchange for donating $20,000 each to the Starlight Foundation and the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund.

In Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein's government, radio referred to the band as "B-U-S-H", spelling out the name of the band so as not to seem to refer to either U.S. President, George H. W. Bush or George W. Bush.

Frustrated by the disappointing sales of Golden State and lack of support the band was receiving from Atlantic, the band decided to go on a hiatus. Band members went to work on various other musical projects notably Gavin Rossdale, and his new band Institute. In recent interviews, Rossdale (who is married to Gwen Stefani, lead singer of another popular rock band, No Doubt) said he hasn't ruled out the possibility of Bush getting back together, but says it is on the back burner at the moment.

1 Members
2 Discography
3 Singles
4 External links

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Members

Gavin Rossdale - Vocals, Lyrics, Guitar
Dave Parsons - Bass (former member of Transvision Vamp)
Robin Goodridge - Percussion
Sacha Putnam - Keyboards
Chris Traynor - Lead Guitar on Golden State Tour
Nigel Pulsford - Lead Guitar, String Arrangements (Left the band to spend more time with his family in 2002)

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Discography

Year	Title	Label
1994	Sixteen Stone	Trauma/Interscope
1996	Razorblade Suitcase	Trauma/Interscope
1997	Deconstructed	Interscope
1999	The Science of Things	Trauma
2001	Golden State	Atlantic
2004	The Best of: 1994-1999	SPV
2005	Zen X Four	Unknown