Dead Daisies

The Answer is a Northern Irish hard rock and blues-rock band from Newcastle and Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK. They have achieved success with their debut album Rise selling in excess of 30,000 copies in the UK & Europe, 10,000 on day one in Japan and 100,000 worldwide.The Answer was formed in 2000 by guitarist Paul Mahon, whose father was a jazz trumpeter and member of seminal Irish showband The Freshmen, who released three albums on CBS and toured with the likes of the Beach Boys. Aged 18, Paul knew he wanted to put together a rock band and mentioned it to bassist Micky Waters, an old school friend who had been in numerous cover bands around Belfast.James Heatley, who had played as Ash’s stand-in live drummer in 1993, was recruited to be the drummer for The Answer. Paul called him up only to find that he was about to take his finals at University, so the trio waited whilst James completed his degree in Psychology.In late June 2000, the four of them got together for their debut rehearsal. 2001 was spent writing, rehearsing, gigging locally and building up a set The Answer. By 2002, the band had attracted the attention of MCD promotions in Ireland, (the company who recently bought out the Mean Fiddler Group, alongside Clear Channel), who put them on as openers at the Witnness Festival that year.Eamonn Keyes, owner of Doghouse Studios recorded them before they were signed.The Dead Daisies are an Australian-American rock band and musical collective formed in 2012 in Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, California. Musicians Richard Fortus (Guns N` Roses), Jon Stevens (INXS, Noiseworks) and David Lowy (Mink) have been involved at various times along with a rotation of top rock musicians that have included Darryl Jones (The Rolling Stones), Dizzy Reed (Guns N` Roses), Marco Mendoza (Thin Lizzy), Charley Drayton (The Cult, Divinyls, Cold Chisel), John Tempesta (The Cult), Brian Tichy (ex Whitesnake), Frank Ferrer (Guns N` Roses), Alex Carapetis (Nine Inch Nails), Clayton Doley, Jackie Barnes (Jimmy Barnes), Alan Mansfield and Doug Aldrich.The most recent members to join the collective in 2015 are John Corabi (The Scream Mötley Crüe Union), Jackie Barnes (Jimmy Barnes) and Bernard Fowler (The Rolling Stones).In January 2016 it was announced that Doug Aldrich was joining the band as the most recent member added to an ever evolving lineup. A new album named `Make Some Noise` was announced for August 2016.