Britain has long needed a rock band to bring the fun back into Rock ‘n’ Roll, a British Guns N Roses or Aerosmith, and now they have one in the form of 400 Horses.

400 Horses is the brainchild of Allan Fisher (keyboards & Drums) and Mark Beale (Guitars) who apparently met over a nice girl in a low budget porn movie, but refuse to talk about this. The two Birmingham based musicians have always lived the rock lifestyle, and have suffered for their art. Not only has Allan had to build his own drum kit in the past, but a helpful singer in a previous band blew it up for him, whilst he was playing it! They had thought that it would make a good special effect to put 12 maroons and other various explosive items under a dustbin lid, under the drum riser. At the end of a drum solo the fuse was ignited, and the riser rose! Allan was left with a broken arm and stitches ... but an amazing finale.

Mark has also been a rock star all of his life, and has been sacked from many a job for refusing to cut his waist length blonde hair, and then as soon as the band were given their record deal, he had it cut! Go figure? Mark is a great guitarist, and he is able to play his guitar with his teeth and behind his back, although we are assured that this is not at the same time.

They are able to call on the talents of some very good musicians to complete the 400 Horses line up, including Daz Stonehouse on Vocals, who apparently can blag anything he wants for the benefit of the band, and Nathan Rose on bass, a very educated musician with two music degrees, and the Musicians Union Award for the most promising songwriter 1998, and BBC Young composer of the year 1998 . They have also been known to employ the services of a full brass section to enhance their live sound.

The debut album, “400 Horses” was released on A2 Records on June 26th.