In 2000, Violent Delight, consisting of Rodney and Tom released “Hands Up! If You’ve Got VD”, a 9 track Extended Play demo.
The concert also included songs from each member’s solo careers, as well as a short Deep Purple set, and the occasion was released as the album In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra in 2000.
After headlining Glastonbury Festival , T in the Park and V Festival , the band played the Leaving the 20th Century concert at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 31 December 1999, the first concert to be held there, with 57,000 people attending and the final song being broadcast around…
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By 1998, keyboardist Fraser Smith had been recruited as a session player to join the band on tour. As a session player, Smith also played keyboards on the new tracks recorded for the Greatest Hits album in 1999. In December 1999, guitarist Paul Banks left the band by mutual consent…
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After their record company Go! Discs was acquired by Universal in 1996, the band was dropped from the label and subsequently forced to sell their Shabby Road recording studio and declare bankruptcy. The Trashcans kept a low profile in the following years, not playing any concerts until early 1999 (in…
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The first single from XTRMNTR , ” Swastika Eyes “, was released in November 1999. The song’s overtly political content, Gillespie said it was about “American international terrorism”, made it controversial. Nevertheless, it was a hit, charting at No. 22 on the British charts. XTRMNTR itself fared well, reaching No.…
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Not satisfied with the results from Harris’ Barnyard Studios, located on his property in Essex, which had been used for the last four Iron Maiden studio albums, the band recorded the new release, Brave New World , at Guillaume Tell Studios in Paris, France in November 1999 with producer Kevin…
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In November 1999, Greatest Hits III was released.
Floyd later formed The Occasional Tables. He died on 31 October 1999. Pete Dimmock died on 12 August 2011.
In October 1999, Montalo, Gra and Luther began to discuss the possibility of a reunion, owing to a resurgence of interest in the band after the release of the Best of Witchfynde CD in 1996, which sold well. Pete Surgey rejoined the band on bass. However, during rehearsals Luther Beltz…
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