Phoenix Music re-issued a Tobruk retrospective in 2001 with rare tracks and video footage, called Recaptured .
Rip Tide Records also re-released Wild on the Run on CD in that year.
Snake also had a stint in an early incarnation of The Wildhearts , but never recorded officially with them, although some demos were produced. Mike Brown played bass in a short-lived band with Alan Kelly (drummer, ex-Shy) called Why The Rabbit shortly after Tobruk broke up. Jem Davis and Fincher…
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Unfortunately, the band could not break in the UK, as they sounded too American. The album’s sales disappointed and the band left Parlophone around 1987. A second album was released through FM Revolver , called Pleasure + Pain .
They then ventured to Philadelphia to start recording their debut album, also titled Wild on the Run at Warehouse Studios. Lance Quinn from Lita Ford and Bon Jovi -fame co-produced the album with the band. The album was released in May 1985 and tours followed supporting UFO, Tokyo Blade and…
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The band’s 1985 single “Falling” gained some airplay. The 7″ single release contained a prize draw competition in which the prize was a parachute jump (i.e. free-‘falling’) with the band at Bovingdon Green Airfield in Buckinghamshire. The winner (23-year-old John Michael Dunn (later known as John Michael Richards), of Thatto…
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The band’s management at the time, Light And Sound Design, hired out the Birmingham Odeon , rigged it with expensive lights and sound and invited various talent scouts. This led the band to sign a deal. After signing to EMI ( Parlophone ) in 1984 Tobruk went on a club…
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Steve Woodward, who was a founding member and main songwriter, left the band in 1983 after a tour with Diamond Head just as EMI was showing interest in the band.
They gigged to promote their debut single “Wild on the Run” with “The Show Must Go On” which was released on Neat Records around 1983.
A demo brought them exposure on the Friday Rock Show in 1982.