Baz Warne

Barry Baz Warne born 25 March 1964 in Sunderland England is the current guitarist and vocalist of The Stranglers Earlier in his career he was the guitarist and frontman of numerous bands His first recordings to be released were with the Sunderland punk band Toy Dolls whom he joined as bassist in 1983 He toured extensively with them and recorded two singles before forming the Troubleshooters in 1985 The Troubleshooters released two singles before changing their name to the Smalltown Heroes in 1992 They released a number of singles including the worlds first interactive CDrom single Moral Judgement which contained the bands history the video for Moral Judgement and gig footage Moral Judgement received the SingleoftheWeek designation from Kerrang magazine on its release in 1994 It was followed in 1996 by their only album Human Soup In 1998 during the recording of what was planned as their second album Atomic Cafe their record company pulled the plug announcing that they had no more money causing the band to fold In the summer of 1998 Warne formed a retrorock cover band named Sun Devils In 2000 Warne was invited to audition for the Stranglers whom he had met in 1995 when Smalltown Heroes supported them on tour His audition was successful and he immediately set off to play in Kosovo and then across Europe with the band One of their first gigs together was captured on the 2002 Euro Live DVD recorded in Poland in 2000 He is also well known in the small Northumberland village of Belford where he played many solo gigs at the Salmon Inn around the time he joined the Stranglers Warne sings lead vocals on many of the tracks contained on the Stranglers most recent studio albums Suite XVI Giants and Dark Matters In live gigs he handles the vocals on the songs that had originally been sung by Hugh Cornwell His first gig as a lead vocalist with the band was 3 June 2006 at the Hutton Moor Leisure Centre WestonsuperMare England In October 2017 Warne played guitar for the track 21st Century Love which features on fellow North East singersongwriter Scott Michael Cavagans debut album In 2020 Warne formed the sideproject Wingmen with bassist Paul Gray the Damned guitarist Leigh Heggarty Ruts DC and drummer Marty Love Johnny Moped The band released their selftitled debut album in 2023 In 2022 Warne featured as the main narrator for the short film Passing Ships which also starred Sunderland born actress Melanie Hill to raise awareness of mental health issues and male suicide Source Article Baz Warne from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30