From 2016 – Bruno starts to collaborate again with a guitarist Dima Vincent and with an original (1970’s) Homosexuals drummer Niall Morosini.
As of 2014, Bruno was still performing regularly as the Homosexuals, with the band including Harris, Tom Oakes, John Mathews and Charlie Sundown.
The Heart Of Bruno Wizard (2013), directed by Elisabeth Rasmussen, was a feature-length documentary on the band’s lead singer/songwriter and sole remaining original member.
Wizard put together another lineup of the Homosexuals in late 2007, including bassist Mike Dos Santos (of Apache Beat , Brendan Benson and the Realistics), drummer Travis Harrison (the owner of label Serious Business Records ), and guitarist Dave Siegel (a childhood friend of Harrison). Their fierce live performances, a…
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Wizard reformed the Homosexuals in late 2003, playing with talented young musicians Dima Vincent and Sasha Reva from Ukraine. In 2004, this version of the band, along with former member Vida, launched Astral Glamour on Hyped2Death at Cobden’s Art Club in Notting Hill Gate . This coincided with a major…
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First screened in 2003, The Way Out, a Portrait of Xentos Jones by Scottish artists Luke Fowler and Kosten Koper was an experimental film portrait of ex-Homosexuals bass player Jim Welton.
Welton left the band in 1980, forming Amos & Sara with Chris Gray; Wizard and Hayman continued recording as the Homosexuals, along with visual artist and sometime vocalist Susan Vida, releasing a cassette of material in 1982 before disbanding in 1985. The only full-length album by the band, The Homosexuals’…
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The band members recorded in various combinations under several different pseudonyms. These side projects included Ici la Bas, Sir Alick & the Phraser, and George Harassment, all released on Bruno’s Black Noise label. Contrary to often cited information about Homosexuals side projects, L. Voag’s The Way Out (1979) was a…
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For Wizard, the name “the Rejects” was too deeply embedded in what he regarded as “the new conformity of punk”, leading to the name change to the Homosexuals. Dus could not take being in a band called the Homosexuals and duly left, although Welton and Hayman approved of the change…
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The Rejects were formed in the bar of Goldsmiths College in South London in 1976, when ex- Sunderland art school students John Hazzard (real name: John Wilkins) and Glenn Hutchinson recruited Bruno Wizard (real name: Bruno McQuillan) to drum for their nascent band. He in turn introduced them to Howard…
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