Shyyne

OH yea. So here we are SHYYNE Wolverhampton's own 80's LA style Sleaze Metal band....and their superb brand of "Sunset Strip" Sleaze Metal Anthems.
The incredible, enigmatic, bundle of musical fun Shyyne are a 4-piece 80’s style SleazeMetal band from Wolverhampton in England. They were formed in 2015 by Toni Gale and Mark Wilkins and these guys fed up with there not being any 80’s style “Sunset Strip” Glam or Sleaze bands to enjoy decided to do something about it, mainly for their own enjoyment and indeed sanity, and thus Shyyne were born.
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The first songs to be written included "Shyyne On" and Can't Sleep and the first song they ever performed live, a powerful ballad called "If I Could" featured on an EP entitled "If I Could" and featuring the 3 early songs was recorded by Mark Stuart of Magnum heritage which became a critical success, making waves in the underground 80's Glam Metal movement... Quickly the band became a crowd favourite, mainly due to the high energy of their performances but also because Shyyne insisted in staying true to their 80's roots, a kind of "Old Skool" 80's Sunset Strip Punk Rock/Glam SleazeMetal sound, a veritable oasis in a sea of "New Rock" clones.
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The band moved inexorably upwards concentrating on their energetic live shows and gained supports with L A Guns, Love/Hate, Tigertailz, Molly Hatchet and Y&T on 2 of their tours. Late 2017 saw a crucial line up change, Matt Freeman asked to join Shyyne as Bass guitarist and was immediately taken on and Richie “Bev” Bevan, one of the most dynamic drummers in the Midlands, was hunted down to complete the new line up. This literally transformed the band into the Shyyne you see today.
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Shyyne are often described as a band with a lot of laughter. The ethos of the band is to not only to have as much fun as it is possible to have (legally) whilst being completely and totally serious about their music and brilliant live shows BUT to GIVE as much fun to an audience as is possible. This band have humour running thru their veins and it is this happy, fun-loving 80’s style vibe that drives the band. This is a band who have NO pretensions about fame or fortune, no this is not what drives them. Shyyne exist as a vehicle to have fun. Toni and Mark are at pains to explain that they would be doing this, whether anyone listened, came out to see their incredible live shows or indeed bought their album, it matters not to these two. The only thing that matters is to be able to play their music, apparently for the protection of their own sanity more than any other reason!
See Shyyne live and the band INSIST you to leave the gig with a massive smile on your faces and you can not be anything but wholly entertained by their catchy sing out loud 1980’s Sunset strip style SleazeMetal with an essence of Hair metal and a huge dollop of Glam metal all mixed together. And let me tell you this band achieve that ethos in spades. Their live shows are renowned for an energy-packed, laughter packed, good time inducing, fun fest of original 80’s classic SleazeMetal.
Musically the band make no apologies for being hugely inspired by bands of the 80’s era such as RATT, Faster Pussycat, Vain & Shotgun Messiah (Toni’s favourite bands) Van Halen, La Guns, Poison, Motley Crue, Faster Pussycat, Dokken the guitarist Mark Wilkins being a particular aficionado of The Lynch Mob, Skid Row and Queensryche.
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Shyyne rapidly began to attract a following and to date this has continued, they have built up a large, very vocal and hugely faithful following across the UK, being invited to play ever bigger shows with main supports with the LEGENDS such as Vain, Faster Pusseycat, LA Guns, Y & T, The Lynch Mob, Love/Hate, Headlining their first shows in 2019 but still popping up on the same line up as Molly Hatchet, Toseland, Vega, making a whole lot of new friends, including the genius that is George Lynch himself, Davy Vain, the Vega guys and a whole lot more, infact almost all of the bands they support and play with compliment Shyyne on their down to earth, friendly, positive professionalism.
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2019 Saw Shyyne sign to WDFD Records and begin the recording of their new album entitled ‘Go your Own Way’ This album was released on the 4th April 2020 and immediately gained RAVE reviews and a certain amount of Critical acclaim.
Quite simple Shyyne are a band unashamedly rooted to the 80's Sunset Strip genre, a brilliant relief from the myriad of Clone new Metal bands, they offer you a fun laced, high energy, incredibly cool alternative to the straight laced seriousness of modern Rock and take you back to an era when literally everything was FUN.
This band Shyyne like the Sun and Glitter like the stars, and that is no bad thing!